Paul Nolde

Paul Nolde has more than two decades of experience in the banking, finance, and venture capital sectors, serving in multiple business development and management roles. 

As managing director of 757 Collab, he sets the strategic vision for the organization and oversees day-to-day operations in accelerating and funding venture-appropriate startups from idea to seed stage. 

757 Collab includes 757 Startup Studios (the “front door” incubator to Hampton Roads’ entrepreneurial ecosystem), 757 Accelerate (a nationally recognized venture accelerator), 757 Angels (one of the nation’s premier angel investment groups), and 757 Innovation Partnerships (innovation programming for organizations and companies). 

Prior to this he served as executive managing director of Lighthouse Labs, another nationally recognized venture accelerator based in Richmond, Va., and before that he was fund manager and managing director of Riverflow Growth Fund, a seed stage, health care-focused venture capital fund. 

Prior to Riverflow he served as a director at NRV, also an early-stage venture capital firm, having previously managed the angel investment portfolio of a family office. Earlier in his career he held various sales and strategy positions at multiple national and community banks.

He is an active participant in, and advocate for, Virginia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, serving on the boards of several local and regional organizations, including the Activation Council, CAV Angels (president of the network), Innovate Hampton Roads, the Norfolk Innovation Corridor, Hampton Roads’ Regional Organization Presidents’ Council, and The Launch Place Seed Fund (former chair of the board). Additionally, he sits on various advisory and governing boards at the University of Virginia, where he also serves as an adjunct professor of impact investing in its Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

Nolde graduated from UVA with a B.A. in Foreign Affairs, complemented by post-grad business studies through the McIntire School of Commerce Business Institute.