Jackson Cummings leads Wellington Access Ventures as head of a rare all-Black GP team that explicitly serves as a go-to early-stage investor for underrepresented founders, while personally co-creating Black Venture Institute to teach Black operators venture investing fundamentals. He integrates Wellington's large public and private platform into his seed and Series A work, collaborating with later-stage teams and analysts to provide portfolio companies access to resources that standalone early-stage funds typically cannot offer. Jackson Cummings leads Wellington Access Ventures as head of a rare all-Black GP team that explicitly serves as a go-to early-stage investor for underrepresented founders, while personally co-creating Black Venture Institute to teach Black operators venture investing fundamentals. He integrates Wellington's large public and private platform into his seed and Series A work, collaborating with later-stage teams and analysts to provide portfolio companies access to resources that standalone early-stage funds typically cannot offer.