Inside the Lab

Cinematica Labs was founded to build entrepreneurial ecosystems through community, capital, connectivity, and culture. Our mentors help founders grow while remaining true to the mission and vision that inspired their entrepreneurial journey.

Anchored in a shared mission

We support mentors who are founders and understand capital movements to build entrepreneurial ecosystems centering people and the planet.

Meet the Team

  • Shane Kelly

    Founder & CEO

  • Marcia Chong Rosado

    Director

  • Trivia Edwards

    Program & Community Manager

  • Yolanda Sheffield

    Interim General Counsel and Platform Operations Manager

Our Values

  • Human-Centered

    We value the people we work with — from team members, partners, mentors, founders, and participants in our programs as humans first, above transactions and businesses.

  • Accountable

    We are imperfect and seek to be accountable to ourselves, our team members, partners, mentors, founders, and participants in our programs —- and to nature.

  • Nature-Centered

    We seek to honor nature above human extraction in the ecosystems, partnerships, programs and events we build.

  • Intersectional

    We seek to honor the various intersections and experiences that shape and drive the now and future of our economy — race, ethnicity, gender, ability and other lived experiences.

  • Systemic

    We seek to build ecosystems, partnerships, programs and events that fundamentally change systems to center diverse people and the planet.

  • Liberatory

    We are unpacking and unlearning behaviors, patterns, and systems. We are seeking to move towards liberation as a praxis. We are exploring how to build ecosystems, partnerships, programs and events that enable diverse people and the planet to move closer towards liberation.

  • Joyful

    Joy is a part of the work and we seek to make space for it.

  • Humorful

    Humor is part of the work and we seek to make space for it.

Partners Who Trust Us