DC Community Ventures

DC Community Ventures is a community development venture capital fund that seeks to invest in companies in the Washington DC metro area that deliver both financial returns for the fund as well as social returns for the communities in which they operate. They target investments in underserved markets principally to promote economic opportunity for low and moderate income people, while seeking favorable risk-adjusted returns afforded by inefficient capital allocation. They offer flexible and patient growth capital through debt and equity investments with a long-term investment horizon.

R. Candler Young

Managing Partner and Co-Founder

Karim Zia

Managing Partner and Co-Founder

7 past transactions

JRINK

Seed Round in 2015
Digitally native lifestyle & wellness company, selling subscriptions and cold-pressed juices via online home delivery, on-demand and through 7 tasting shops in the DC area.

Cel-Fi by Nextivity

Venture Round in 2014
Nextivity is the developer of Cel-Fi, a high tech smart signal booster that greatly improves indoor reception and data rates for wireless devices. Cel-Fi is a carrier-grade, consumer-friendly smart signal booster that maximizes a user’s indoor wireless experience by eliminating in-building dead zones. It can more than quadruple wireless data speeds and eliminate dropped calls for wireless subscribers in their homes or offices by boosting signal strength from one bar to five bars. Cel-Fi is fully compliant with the new Report and Order for signal boosters as defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Cel-Fi relies on intelligent, self-organizing algorithms to maximize the area of coverage for users and ensure it does not compromise or interfere with mobile operator networks or impede other subscribers’ signals. Cel-Fi does not require any new equipment or changes to existing network infrastructure, or mobile devices. Recognized for its superior design and effectiveness, Cel-Fi is the only consumer booster authorized and approved by the communications commissions in Australia and the United Kingdom. Cel-Fi is ideal for small and medium-sized businesses and for use in multi-level homes. It provides one of the largest coverage footprints in the market – up to 13,000 square feet – with up to 60 simultaneous calls and up to 42 Mbps high-speed data connections. As a completely plug and play solution, Cel-Fi eliminates the need for external antennas, cables, ladders, and drilling, ensuring that even the most non-technical customer can install the system in a matter of minutes. Cel-Fi have garnered accolades from FierceWireless, CITA, Red Herring, and CONNECT. Cel-Fi Smart Signal Booster. Designed by Nextivity in California.

Catalyte

Debt Financing in 2014
Catalyte is an AI-driven company that discovers high-potential talent, develops them, and deploys them directly into client organizations. It deploys a workforce that looks like America and helps its clients boost productivity, quality, and diversity.

LearnZillion

Series A in 2013
LearnZillion provides educators with curricular products for the new standards in digital and print. Its platform offers access to instructional materials for mathematics and literacy, as well as provides task-implementation guides for teachers that enable students and teachers to get benefited from each other through interactive learning. LearnZillion was founded in 2011 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

New World Development Group

Debt Financing in 2012
New World Development GroupTM ("NWDG") was founded in 2002. NWDG's Director of Development has over 30 years of professional experience in the construction and project management industry and has been responsible for the execution of over 800 individual projects with aggregate contract value in excess of $180 million. NWDG's Director of Finance is a Certified Public Accountant, whose professional career includes experience as an auditor, consultant and an investment banker. Our key to success is ensuring your project is ready to open on-time, every time, while maximizing safety and quality. We accomplish this through effective selection and management of sub-contractors and technical competence which allows us to work directly with architects and engineers to ensure the proper execution of complex solutions in the field. NWDGTM services the nation's top corporations, leading mid-size businesses and professional service firms ... and look forward to serving you.
Chesapeake Bay Roasting Company is a completely different coffee company, devoted to making the world around us a better place. Chesapeake Bay Roasting Company roasts the region’s finest coffees with modern technologies that lowers our carbon footprint by nearly 80% when compared to traditional roasters today. We pledge 2% of sales in support of our H2O Initiative that contributes funding to local community organizations devoted to restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed to the thriving ecosystem it once was.

LearnZillion

Seed Round in 2012
LearnZillion provides educators with curricular products for the new standards in digital and print. Its platform offers access to instructional materials for mathematics and literacy, as well as provides task-implementation guides for teachers that enable students and teachers to get benefited from each other through interactive learning. LearnZillion was founded in 2011 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.
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