Marell Evans
Exceptional Capital
Exceptional Capital was founded in 2022 by Marell Evans and Andrew Van Nest as an early-stage venture capital firm focused on making investments in Pre-Seed to Series A stage companies. Evans was a Kauffman Fellow and a Vice President at Softbank where he was an early member of the Incubation and Investment Team. His team managed the $100 million Softbank Opportunity Fund, which was one the first institutional venture funds to support Black, Latinx, and Native American founders. Van Nest was a member of the investment team at Artisanal Ventures where he focused on investing in B2B software at the pre-seed to seed stage. Exceptional has raised $50 million in commitments from notable LPs such as Vanderbilt, NextEra, Bank of America, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, First Round, NEA, Lightspeed and Stepstone. Evans and Van Nest, both former Division I athletes, bring strong work ethic and discipline to everything they do. They won’t be out-worked and represent emerging leaders in the next generation of early-stage venture investing.
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