Consumer-growth investor and operator focused on early-stage fintech and consumer brands. Chelsea Michels advises founders on go-to-market, user acquisition, retention and monetization while helping shape product and brand strategy. Active in seed and pre-seed rounds, she leverages startup marketing and growth experience to de-risk early commercialization.
Consumer-growth investor and operator focused on early-stage fintech and consumer brands. Chelsea Michels advises founders on go-to-market, user acquisition, retention and monetization while helping shape product and brand strategy. Active in seed and pre-seed rounds, she leverages startup marketing and growth experience to de-risk early commercialization.
Specializes in early-stage consumer and fintech opportunities, deploying founder-friendly seed and pre-seed capital alongside hands-on growth support. Prioritizes companies with defensible unit economics, early retention signals and scalable user-acquisition channels, using marketing-led GTM playbooks to de-risk commercialization. Allocates small initial checks with selective follow-on reserves, favoring operator-led teams able to iterate quickly. Investment decisions are metric-driven, focused on short-cycle validation toward product-market fit and capital-efficient scaling.
Specializes in early-stage consumer and fintech opportunities, deploying founder-friendly seed and pre-seed capital alongside hands-on growth support. Prioritizes companies with defensible unit economics, early retention signals and scalable user-acquisition channels, using marketing-led GTM playbooks to de-risk commercialization. Allocates small initial checks with selective follow-on reserves, favoring operator-led teams able to iterate quickly. Investment decisions are metric-driven, focused on short-cycle validation toward product-market fit and capital-efficient scaling.
| Trades 896 | Longs Won 695/896 77% | Profit Factor 10.63 |
| Profitability | Shorts Won 0/0 0% | Standard Deviation $146,825.68 |
| Average Win $51,236.15 | Best Trade (Aug 15) $2.04M | Sharpe Ratio -11.19 |
| Average Loss -$16,659.33 | Worst Trade (Jun 29) -$454,096.52 | Z-Score 23.71 (100%) |
| Commissions $0 | Avg. Trade Length 10m 2w 4d | Expectancy $36,005.14 |
| Loss Size | 100% | 90% | 80% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 10% |
| Probability of Loss | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% |
| Consecutive Losing Trades | 9,615 | 8,654 | 7,692 | 6,731 | 5,769 | 4,808 | 3,846 | 2,885 | 1,923 | 962 |
| Symbol | Quantity | Cost | Value | Comm. | Profit ($) | Gain (%) | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AAPL Apple Inc. | 5,944 | $1.5M | $1.82M | - | $321,884.56 | 21.51% | +0.219% |
ABBV AbbVie Inc. | 2,477 | $444,630.76 | $617,912.44 | - | $173,281.68 | 38.97% | -0.542% |
ACM Aecom | 6,737 | $470,243 | $425,172.07 | - | -$45,070.93 | -9.58% | -0.786% |
ACWX ISHARES MSCI ACWI EX U.S. ETF | 7,102 | $371,570.6 | $553,032.74 | - | $181,462.14 | 48.84% | -0.051% |
AGG iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF | 31,422 | $3.06M | $3.06M | - | $6,296.58 | 0.21% | -0.215% |
AMP Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | 513 | $272,287.29 | $292,174.01 | - | $19,886.72 | 7.3% | -0.2% |
AMZN Amazon.com Inc | 5,843 | $1.27M | $1.53M | - | $261,035.67 | 20.5% | -0.935% |
APP AppLovin Corporation Class A Common Stock | 972 | $591,449.83 | $306,607.68 | - | -$284,842.15 | -48.16% | +0.886% |
ASC Ardmore Shipping Corporation | 28,041 | $339,297.61 | $493,802.01 | - | $154,504.4 | 45.54% | +1.733% |
AVGO Broadcom Inc. | 895 | $300,869.25 | $351,726.04 | - | $50,856.79 | 16.9% | -5.943% |
BBY Best Buy Co., Inc. | 7,886 | $593,253.98 | $681,508.12 | - | $88,254.14 | 14.88% | +1.254% |
BDX Becton, Dickinson and Company | 5,573 | $832,584.64 | $1.02M | - | $189,503.5 | 22.76% | +0.786% |
BMRN Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 3,918 | $212,198.98 | $263,916.48 | - | $51,717.5 | 24.37% | -1.707% |
BMY Bristol-Myers Squibb Company | 11,553 | $530,685.26 | $737,427.99 | - | $206,742.73 | 38.96% | -1.268% |
BND Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund | 40,528 | $2.93M | $2.93M | - | $1,299.74 | 0.04% | -0.235% |
BRK-B Berkshire Hathaway Inc. | 1,308 | $601,276.08 | $659,271.24 | - | $57,995.16 | 9.65% | -0.572% |
BTI British American Tobacco p.l.c. ADR | 17,387 | $652,850.09 | $992,102.24 | - | $339,252.15 | 51.96% | -0.506% |
BUD Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A. ADR | 8,626 | $439,305.32 | $687,750.98 | - | $248,445.66 | 56.55% | -0.623% |
BUFR FT Vestladder Buffer ETF-USD I | 21,900 | $690,472.72 | $819,717 | - | $129,244.28 | 18.72% | 0.0 |
BXP Boston Properties, Inc. | 7,041 | $522,375.19 | $481,956.45 | - | -$40,418.74 | -7.74% | -1.055% |