Evan Poncelet

Evan Poncelet is a founding managing partner of Dreamward Ventures and the executive director of Venture Black, a nonprofit with the mission to connect, empower, and support Black and ally founders and investors of all experience levels who are specifically interested in pursuing high growth, venture scale, market opportunities. He is a Seattle Angel Conference, VCLab Venture Institute, and BLCK VC Black Venture Institute alumn and software industry veteran in both Seattle and Silicon Valley. His passion for building liberatory economic engines traces back to his grandfather's legacy of co-founding the Liberty Bank in Seattle's predominantly Black Central District during the Civil Rights Era.