Randall Lewis brings over 35 years of Fortune 500 compliance, audit, and risk management experience from senior roles at GE, Wells Fargo, and Elevance Health to his venture investing at Cleveland Avenue, where this C-suite governance background is uncommon among VCs and creates a highly structured approach to portfolio management. He specializes in agri-tech investments within Cleveland Avenue's consumer platform while also serving as CEO of a startup that sold to a Fortune 500 company and spending seven years leading professional development at Purdue University, giving him direct operator experience and an academic orientation that most venture investors lack.
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Cleveland Avenue
Sectors
Food & Ag, CPG / D2C, Retail Tech, Robotics, AI
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Seed - Series B+
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$1M - S10M
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Founded and led by Don Thompson, the first Black CEO of McDonald's, Cleveland Avenue runs a $70M fund (CAST US) that is structurally mandated to deploy 75% of capital into Black- and Hispanic-owned companies, 75% on Chicago's South and West Sides, and 50% women-founded companies. Rather than acting as a passive capital provider, Cleveland Avenue pairs its food and beverage-focused investments with hands-on operating support delivered by a ~50-person team built around Thompson's deep restaurant-industry expertise.
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