Entrepreneur Will Zell on a new kind of VC fund...plus what's disrupting U.S. manufacturing (and where)

Entrepreneur-investor Will Zell has made a mark in technology, real estate and other sectors. In 2014, he co-founded manufacturing disruptor Nikola Labs, which was a spinout from Ohio State University that scaled with the aid of venture capital, where he remained as CEO from its establishment until the third quarter of 2020. Now having transitioned out of Nikola, Mr. Zell has set his sights on disrupting venture capital itself –his firm, Zell Capital, has created an SEC-registered investment vehicle called the Access Fund, aiming to open early-stage VC investment to non-accredited investors, a category that includes 87 percent of U.S. households. In this episode, he talks about Zell Capital's vision for the Access Fund, Nikola Labs, venture capital, the future of manufacturing...and why Ohio is the place to watch for disruptive innovation in industrial robotics.

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Entrepreneur Will Zell on a new kind of VC fund...plus what's disrupting U.S. manufacturing (and where) is an episode from Investable Universe by Investable Universe.

This episode is 00:46:58 long.

This episode was published on Jul 30, 2021.

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