MaC Venture Capital

Managing General Partners Marlon Nichols, Adrian Fenty, and Charles D. King lead the investment committee together. Nichols—a former Intel Capital investor and Kauffman Fellow—drives deal sourcing from the traditional venture ecosystem. Fenty, former Mayor of Washington, D.C., brings government and regulatory relationships, while King, founder of MACRO, anchors access to the media and entertainment industry. General Partner Michael Palank, previously at Mosaic Media Group, rounds out the senior team.

Marlon Nichols merged his existing firm Cross Culture Ventures with the venture vehicle run by Adrian Fenty and Charles King. The SEC approved the combination in January 2020. At the time of approval, MaC was reported as the largest Black-led venture capital firm on record. The debut fund closed at $110 million shortly after regulatory greenlight.

MaC is a generalist firm by design but shows concentration in enterprise software, fintech, digital health, cybersecurity, and consumer technology. The partnership applies a 'cultural arbitrage' thesis—funding startups where growth depends on trends originating in communities underrepresented in traditional venture allocation, on the view that those communities produce leading indicators for broader technology adoption.

MACRO is the film, television, and media studio founded by Charles King in 2015. MACRO operates separately from MaC Venture Capital, but the relationship gives MaC portfolio companies direct access to Hollywood production, talent, and marketing infrastructure. King's dual role as MACRO CEO and MaC Managing General Partner provides the venture firm with its distinctive media-sector origination pipeline.

MaC has disclosed LPs including Goldman Sachs, the investment arms of professional sports leagues, endowments, and family offices. The firm also counts cultural figures and entertainment industry executives among its individual limited partners, aligning with its thesis of investing from a cultural proximity advantage.

MaC's partnership covers three distinct sourcing networks—Nichols from the institutional venture world, Fenty from government and urban policy circles, and King from Hollywood and media. The firm explicitly selects for companies whose growth depends on adoption patterns first visible in Black, Latino, and urban communities, a sourcing posture that sits outside the conventional networks of Palo Alto-centric venture firms.