Aaron Samuels
Current Firm
Collide Capital
Investments
1+ companies
Focus
Fintech, Other
About Aaron Samuels
Aaron Samuels is a Black Jewish performance poet turned venture capital investor at Collide Capital who co-founded Blavity and created AfroTech before raising a $66M fund backed simultaneously by Amazon, Alphabet, and Twitter. He uses "identity saliency" as an investment lens, focusing on how strongly a founder's lived identity connects to the problem they're solving, while continuing to publish poetry and perform as part of his dual identity bridging artist and entrepreneur roles.
Focus Areas
FintechOtherEnterpriseSaaS
Investment Stage
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Notable Investments
Brian Hollins