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Nas has revealed his financial portfolio of investments for more than 40 tech start-ups through his business investment enterprise ‘Queensbridge’
‘Queensbridge’ has allowed him to identify key trends with vendor and product consumers, recognize technology companies in emerging markets and establish corporate relationships with co-investors who share the same passion for the same companies
Nas has become very successful with some start-up apps they have invested in so far from their partnerships with Silicon Valley, include Lyft, Dropbox,Vengo, Fiscal Note, Genius and many different others. Most of these businesses have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in valuation.
QueensBridge Venture Partners receives approximately 100 pitches a month from small companies and only choose s20 to invest in each year. Selah told CNBC that they’ve endowed $100,000 to $500,000 in each start-up for the past six years.
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Many hip hop artists turned moguls have branded themselves by clothing line endorsements, liquor-sponsored campaigns, but Nas admits that he wanted to create a new lane for himself and not conform to what his peers were doing. “I’ve always wanted to be surrounded by the smartest people in the word, and didn’t want to limit that to just music,. “I meet the people that are changing the games across all different industries, and I get to be there first at the ground level. It’s helped me to progress tremendously in my business.”, Nas recently said inn an interview.
