EPISODE 07 - Brian and Candice Brackeen, Lightship Capital

Greg interviews Brian Brackeen and Candice Matthews Brackeen on this first ever power duo episode!

Candice studied economics and statistics but became an entrepreneur and built an app called Hello Parent, before working with an accelerator funding minority owned and operated startups and subsequently launching Lightship Capital.

Brian has been a coder since he was 8 years old, and after dropping out of college worked for several major technology companies such as IBM, ADP, and Apple. Brian started and built a company called Kairos focused on facial recognition technology.

Brian and Candice started Lightship Capital to provide growth capital to minority owned and operated businesses in the Midwest. They are fully subscribed and looking forward to launching Fund 2 down the road.