Candice Matthews is a General Partner at Lightship Capital who built her fund after experiencing firsthand the barriers facing founders of color, including being among the first 88 Black women to raise venture capital nationally. She operates an integrated system that includes both Lightship Capital and Lightship Foundation, running accelerators, acquiring and relocating Black Tech Week to Cincinnati, and sitting on advisory bodies like NASA's Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium to influence how institutional dollars are allocated to underrepresented founders. Candice Matthews is a General Partner at Lightship Capital who built her fund after experiencing firsthand the barriers facing founders of color, including being among the first 88 Black women to raise venture capital nationally. She operates an integrated system that includes both Lightship Capital and Lightship Foundation, running accelerators, acquiring and relocating Black Tech Week to Cincinnati, and sitting on advisory bodies like NASA's Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium to influence how institutional dollars are allocated to underrepresented founders.