Rashaun Williams

Guest Shark: Shark Tank

Rashaun Williams is a venture capitalist, Atlanta Falcons limited partner and financial literacy activist with over 170 investments under his belt and over 50 exits. He is the founder of his family office Value Investment Group and also a general partner in the MVP All-Star Fund. He cofounded venture capital fund Queensbridge Venture Partners where he was an early investor in companies like Robinhood, Coinbase, Casper, Ring, PillPack, Lyft and Dropbox.

Over the last 20 years, Williams has been primarily responsible for bringing capital to emerging, diverse and alternative markets while working at Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, Wachovia Securities and Deutsche Bank. In 2007, he founded Dixsville Partners, a private equity fund investing in infrastructure development and mineral companies in West Africa. Williams has successfully started, invested in and exited several companies. With a passion for financial literacy and entrepreneurship, he founded the Kemet Institute in 2001, a nonprofit focused on providing free financial literacy, entrepreneurship and life skills classes to under-served communities and schools. In 2023, he founded Antimatter Business Partners to teach athletes and entertainers how to operate their own private equity family offices.

In 2015, Williams was appointed to the board of trustees for Fisk University. He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc. and summa cum laude graduate of Morehouse College.