Learn the Path to Empowerment & Success with Rashaun Williams

Meet the day two keynote speaker for CrossState Connect Annual Convention, held on May 19–21 in Atlantic City, NJ!

Rashaun Williams

Trailblazing Investor, Shark Tank Guest Investor, Financial Empowerment Leader

Rashaun Williams is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and financial literacy advocate with over 170 investments and more than 50 successful exits. A guest Shark on ABC’s Shark Tank and a limited partner in the Atlanta Falcons, he is known for combining disciplined investing with a mission to empower underserved communities.

Raised on the South Side of Chicago in a neighborhood marked by poverty, crime, and housing instability, Rashaun overcame significant adversity. These early challenges sparked his drive to understand wealth, uplift his community, and create generational change. He earned over 100 scholarships and graduated summa cum laude from Morehouse College in 2001. In 2025, he received Morehouse’s Bennie Trailblazer Award.

He began his career on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs, later joining Wachovia, where he became the youngest vice president at age 23 and subsequently worked at Deutsche Bank. He went on to cofound Queensbridge Venture Partners—backing Robinhood, Coinbase, Lyft, Dropbox, Ring, Casper, and PillPack—and now leads Value Investment Group and the MVP All-Star Fund.

Dixsville Partners, a private equity firm focused on West African infrastructure and minerals, and Antimatter Business Partners, which helps athletes and entertainers build private equity family offices, were also founded by Rashaun. He launched the Kemet Institute in 2001 to provide free financial education to underserved youth.

Currently, he serves on the Boards of Fisk University and The Atlanta Opera. Whether through investing, education, or ownership, Rashaun Williams continues to turn obstacles into opportunity—for himself and for the communities he serves.