Portfolio
The SHATTER Platform
Fueling the ideas, leaders, and communities that shatter barriers and redefine what’s possible.
SHATTER Fund
The Venture Capital arm of Shatter focused on Consumer Tech and Digital Health.
SHATTER Foundation
The SHATTER Foundation advances access by supporting mental health care and entrepreneurship education, helping individuals and communities gain the resources and opportunities they need to thrive.
SHATTER Circle
An invitation-only community of exceptional women leaders who connect, collaborate, and invest while advancing equity and funding mental health and entrepreneurship initiatives through the SHATTER Foundation.
SHATTER Summit
The SHATTER Summit convenes women across industries to expand networks, unlock opportunity, and elevate women as leaders in the innovation economy.
SHATTER Fund
Investing in Access
Shatter Fund backs founders building technologies that expand access—to capital, to healthcare, and to opportunity. Focused on Consumer Tech and Digital Health, we invest in early-stage companies breaking barriers and putting financial and health control in the hands of individuals. Our deep sector expertise and global network help founders scale bold ideas into category-defining companies.
Access is our Ethos
At Shatter Fund, everything begins with Access.
Access to capital fuels innovation.
Access to care transforms lives.
We exist to close the Access Gap between visionary founders and the communities their technologies can serve.
For Founders: Access to capital
For Communities: Access to care
SHATTER Fund
Our Team
SHATTER Fund II is led by Shelly Kapoor Collins and Dr. Rhodo Nguyen, two accomplished leaders at the intersection of venture capital, healthcare innovation, and inclusive entrepreneurship. Together, they bring a combined 40+ years of experience spanning technology, medicine, policy, and investing—united by a shared mission to drive superior returns through innovation, diversity, and impact. The partners combine strategic investment experience with domain expertise, leveraging their extensive networks and operational insight to identify, fund, and accelerate category-defining companies that deliver both meaningful impact and market-leading returns.
Shelly Kapoor Collins
- Shelly Kapoor Collins is a venture capitalist with a track record of raising and deploying over $100 million across early-stage technology companies. She is the Founder of SHATTER Fund and a Managing Director at Sway, where she has led investments in high-growth, startups across HealthTech, FinTech, and eCommerce.
- Through SHATTER Fund II, Shelly invests in transformative technologies at the intersection of health, wellness, and artificial intelligence. Her investment thesis centers on platform companies addressing structural inefficiencies in healthcare, access, and consumer delivery—backing founders with the potential to build durable, venture-scale outcomes. She brings a disciplined, founder-first approach focused on ownership, capital efficiency, and long-term value creation.
- In addition to fund management, Shelly has built institutional platforms that expand deal flow and investor access. She founded the SHATTER Summit, a global convening of more than 600 investors, founders, and operators, strengthening SHATTER Fund’s proprietary network and early access to emerging talent. This ecosystem also supports the Shatter Foundation, reinforcing long-term pipeline development in underrepresented founder communities.
- Shelly’s prior leadership includes appointment to the National Women’s Business Council under the Obama Administration, Vice Chair of the Women in Public Service Project, and National Co-Chair for Technology for President Obama’s 2012 campaign. She has also partnered on national technology fundraising initiatives with Vice President Kamala Harris.
- Shelly holds both a BS and MS in Management Information Systems from the University of Maryland and has been recognized by Forbes (“40 Women to Watch Over 40”) and The Economic Times (Top 20 Influential Indian Women).
Dr. Rhodo Nguyen
- Dr. Rhodo Nguyen brings a clinician’s lens and a systems-based approach to investing in transformative health, wellness, and impact-driven companies.
- A licensed Naturopathic Physician with over 20 years of clinical experience, she is a graduate of Bastyr University and holds a B.S. from the University of Washington. Dr. Nguyen practiced naturopathic medicine in Washington, DC for nearly two decades, specializing in root-cause medicine, functional diagnostics, and personalized care.
- As Co-Founder of Aloe Wellness and a respected industry leader, she offers critical insight into emerging opportunities in health tech and consumer wellness—key growth areas for the fund’s strategy.
- In addition to her investment work, Dr. Nguyen serves as Board President of SENHOA, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing human trafficking and empowering women and children in Cambodia.
SHATTER Summit
Powerful Events
Our annual flagship event, the SHATTER Summit, convenes women across sectors from Finance, Healthcare, Sports, Media and Technology to expand networks, unlock opportunity, and elevate women as full and 100% participants in the innovation economy.
PAST SPEAKERS
Wendy R. Sherman
U.S. State Department
Indra Nooyi
Pepsi
Kal Penn
Actor, writer, producer
Jenny Johnson
Franklin Templeton
Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General
Shelly Kapoor Collins
Shatter Fund
Kathy Englebert
WNBA
Audrey Irvine
CNN
Jesse Draper
Halogen
Melanie Goldey
Tally Health
Mika Brzezinski
MSNBC
Kaitlyn Christine
Gabbi
Denise Woodward
Partake Foods
Trina Spear
Figs
Noosheen Hashemi
January AI
Hannah Gordon
NVIDIA
Julian Guthrie
Alpha Girls
Kara Goldin
HINT water
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Stub Hub
Sonja Perkins
Broadway Angels
Lauren Leader
All In Together
Julie Uhrman
Angel City Football
Anna Snider
Bank of America and Merrill
Jennifer Nason
J.P. Morgan
Stephanie Mehta
Fast Company
Sophia Elizondo
Brightseed
Neera Tanden
Senior Advisor to the President
Jaymee Messler
Storied Sports
Wendy R. Sherman
U.S. State Department
Indra Nooyi
Pepsi
Kal Penn
Actor, writer, producer
Jenny Johnson
Franklin Templeton
Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General
Shelly Kapoor Collins
Shatter Fund
Kathy Englebert
WNBA
Audrey Irvine
CNN
Jesse Draper
Halogen
Melanie Goldey
Tally Health
Mika Brzezinski
MSNBC
Kaitlyn Christine
Gabbi
Denise Woodward
Partake Foods
Trina Spear
Figs
Noosheen Hashemi
January AI
Hannah Gordon
NVIDIA
Julian Guthrie
Alpha Girls
Kara Goldin
HINT water
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Stub Hub
Sonja Perkins
Broadway Angels
Lauren Leader
All In Together
Julie Uhrman
Angel City Football
Anna Snider
Bank of America and Merrill
Jennifer Nason
J.P. Morgan
Stephanie Mehta
Fast Company
Sophia Elizondo
Brightseed
Neera Tanden
Senior Advisor to the President
Jaymee Messler
Storied Sports
Wendy R. Sherman
U.S. State Department
Indra Nooyi
Pepsi
Kal Penn
Actor, writer, producer
Jenny Johnson
Franklin Templeton
Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General
Shelly Kapoor Collins
Shatter Fund
Kathy Englebert
WNBA
Audrey Irvine
CNN
Jesse Draper
Halogen
Melanie Goldey
Tally Health
Mika Brzezinski
MSNBC
Kaitlyn Christine
Gabbi
Denise Woodward
Partake Foods
Trina Spear
Figs
Noosheen Hashemi
January AI
Hannah Gordon
NVIDIA
Julian Guthrie
Alpha Girls
Kara Goldin
HINT water
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Stub Hub
Sonja Perkins
Broadway Angels
Lauren Leader
All In Together
Julie Uhrman
Angel City Football
Anna Snider
Bank of America and Merrill
Jennifer Nason
J.P. Morgan
Stephanie Mehta
Fast Company
Sophia Elizondo
Brightseed
Neera Tanden
Senior Advisor to the President
Jaymee Messler
Storied Sports
PAST SPEAKERS
Wendy R. Sherman
U.S. State Department
Indra Nooyi
Pepsi
Kal Penn
Actor, writer, producer
Jenny Johnson
Franklin Templeton
Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General
Shelly Kapoor Collins
Shatter Fund
Kathy Englebert
WNBA
Audrey Irvine
CNN
Jesse Draper
Halogen
Melanie Goldey
Tally Health
Mika Brzezinski
MSNBC
Kaitlyn Christine
Gabbi
Denise Woodward
Partake Foods
Trina Spear
Figs
Noosheen Hashemi
January AI
Hannah Gordon
NVIDIA
Julian Guthrie
Alpha Girls
Kara Goldin
HINT water
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Stub Hub
Sonja Perkins
Broadway Angels
Lauren Leader
All In Together
Julie Uhrman
Angel City Football
Anna Snider
Bank of America and Merrill
Jennifer Nason
J.P. Morgan
Stephanie Mehta
Fast Company
Sophia Elizondo
Brightseed
Neera Tanden
Senior Advisor to the President
Jaymee Messler
Storied Sports
Wendy R. Sherman
U.S. State Department
Indra Nooyi
Pepsi
Kal Penn
Actor, writer, producer
Jenny Johnson
Franklin Templeton
Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General
Shelly Kapoor Collins
Shatter Fund
Kathy Englebert
WNBA
Audrey Irvine
CNN
Jesse Draper
Halogen
Melanie Goldey
Tally Health
Mika Brzezinski
MSNBC
Kaitlyn Christine
Gabbi
Denise Woodward
Partake Foods
Trina Spear
Figs
Noosheen Hashemi
January AI
Hannah Gordon
NVIDIA
Julian Guthrie
Alpha Girls
Kara Goldin
HINT water
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Stub Hub
Sonja Perkins
Broadway Angels
Lauren Leader
All In Together
Julie Uhrman
Angel City Football
Anna Snider
Bank of America and Merrill
Jennifer Nason
J.P. Morgan
Stephanie Mehta
Fast Company
Sophia Elizondo
Brightseed
Neera Tanden
Senior Advisor to the President
Jaymee Messler
Storied Sports
Wendy R. Sherman
U.S. State Department
Indra Nooyi
Pepsi
Kal Penn
Actor, writer, producer
Jenny Johnson
Franklin Templeton
Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General
Shelly Kapoor Collins
Shatter Fund
Kathy Englebert
WNBA
Audrey Irvine
CNN
Jesse Draper
Halogen
Melanie Goldey
Tally Health
Mika Brzezinski
MSNBC
Kaitlyn Christine
Gabbi
Denise Woodward
Partake Foods
Trina Spear
Figs
Noosheen Hashemi
January AI
Hannah Gordon
NVIDIA
Julian Guthrie
Alpha Girls
Kara Goldin
HINT water
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Stub Hub
Sonja Perkins
Broadway Angels
Lauren Leader
All In Together
Julie Uhrman
Angel City Football
Anna Snider
Bank of America and Merrill
Jennifer Nason
J.P. Morgan
Stephanie Mehta
Fast Company
Sophia Elizondo
Brightseed
Neera Tanden
Senior Advisor to the President
Jaymee Messler
Storied Sports
“My thanks as well to Shelly Kapoor Collins, the SHATTER Foundation… When women thrive, communities are stronger and economies are more resilient. When women lead, our planet is more prosperous, our people are safer, and our future looks brighter than ever before.“
Wendy Sherman
Deputy Secretary of State
SHATTER Summit
US Department of State
January 2023
SHATTER Circle
The Movement
SHATTER Circle is an invitation-only leadership community powered by the SHATTER platform, uniting exceptional women executives, investors, and industry leaders across sectors including medicine, law, and sports. Designed for those shaping the future of equity, innovation, and excellence, the SHATTER Circle is more than a network—it’s a catalyst for connection, collaboration, and impact.
Members gain access to a powerful ecosystem where they can grow, network, invest, and lead, while simultaneously advancing a larger mission: funding mental health care and entrepreneurship education for underserved communities through the SHATTER Foundation.
SHATTER Foundation
Advancing Access
The SHATTER Foundation advances access by breaking down barriers to care and opportunity. Through initiatives that support mental health services and entrepreneurship education, the Foundation works to create healthier, more equitable communities where individuals have the tools, resources, and support to thrive.
By investing in people and potential, SHATTER Foundation helps ensure that access and empowerment are a reality—not a privilege.
The SHATTER Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
OUR PARTNERS
PRESS
Shatter News
ShopTalk
Actress and entrepreneur Brooke Shields speaks with VC Shelly Kapoor Collins
Forbes
Shelly Kapoor Collins: Creating Access To Capital, Networks And Markets For Women. By Karen Walker.
San Francisco Chronicle
Meet the Venture Capitalist who backs female entrepreneurs. By Carolyn Zinko.
San Francisco Business Times
Here's How Shatter Fund General Partner Shelly Kapoor Collins is bringing equality to tech. By Alisha Green.
Silicon Valley magazine
Silicon Valley magazine Innovation Issue cover story. By Michael McCarthy.
Nob Hill Gazette
The Interview. Shelly Kapoor Collins gets real. By Janet Reilly.
Vogue
South Asian Women Entrepreneurs host NYC event. By Shirya Zamindar.
Haute Living
The Bay Area’s Top Ten Boss Ladies. Shelly Kapoor Collins The Savvy VC.
Carta
How a tech exec turned investor found purpose and impact backing women-led startups. By Kiley Roache.
huffpost
The (Global) Economy Needs Both Female Funders And Founders. By Shelly Kapoor Collins.
DC magazine
DC magazine spotlights Innovators surprising and inspiring us with their work and passion. By Michael McCarthy.
Browngirl Magazine
Gold House’s Inaugural Gathering at ‘Gold Forum’ Amplified AAPI Voices, One Powerful Story at a Time.