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 683/896 76% | Profit Factor 8.91 |
| Profitability | Shorts Won 0/0 0% | Standard Deviation $155,069.21 |
| Average Win $53,975.4 | Best Trade (Oct 14) $2.08M | Sharpe Ratio -11.19 |
| Average Loss -$19,419.87 | Worst Trade (Jun 29) -$454,096.52 | Z-Score 18.34 (100%) |
| Commissions $0 | Avg. Trade Length 11m 2w 1d | Expectancy $36,527.64 |
| Loss Size | 100% | 90% | 80% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 10% |
| Probability of Loss | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% |
| Consecutive Losing Trades | 8,264 | 7,438 | 6,612 | 5,785 | 4,959 | 4,132 | 3,306 | 2,479 | 1,653 | 826 |
| Symbol | Quantity | Cost | Value | Comm. | Profit ($) | Gain (%) | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AAPL Apple Inc. | 5,944 | $1.5M | $2.05M | - | $554,592.16 | 37.06% | +0.901% |
ABBV AbbVie Inc. | 2,477 | $444,630.76 | $707,059.65 | - | $262,428.89 | 59.02% | +0.723% |
ACM Aecom | 6,737 | $470,243 | $400,346.22 | - | -$69,896.78 | -14.86% | +0.567% |
ACWX ISHARES MSCI ACWI EX U.S. ETF | 7,102 | $371,570.6 | $531,478.17 | - | $159,907.57 | 43.04% | +0.261% |
AGG iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF | 31,422 | $3.06M | $3M | - | -$55,133.43 | -1.8% | +0.121% |
AMP Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | 513 | $272,287.29 | $258,970.09 | - | -$13,317.2 | -4.89% | +0.445% |
AMZN Amazon.com Inc | 5,843 | $1.27M | $1.48M | - | $207,134.05 | 16.26% | -0.524% |
APP AppLovin Corporation Class A Common Stock | 972 | $591,449.83 | $268,206 | - | -$323,243.83 | -54.65% | -1.202% |
ASC Ardmore Shipping Corporation | 28,041 | $339,297.61 | $533,620.23 | - | $194,322.62 | 57.27% | +0.263% |
AVGO Broadcom Inc. | 895 | $300,869.25 | $302,697.95 | - | $1,828.7 | 0.61% | -1.777% |
BBY Best Buy Co., Inc. | 7,886 | $593,253.98 | $753,073.57 | - | $159,819.59 | 26.94% | +1.407% |
BDX Becton, Dickinson and Company | 5,573 | $832,584.64 | $1.08M | - | $246,961.19 | 29.66% | -0.026% |
BMRN Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 3,918 | $212,198.98 | $217,919.16 | - | $5,720.18 | 2.7% | -0.767% |
BMY Bristol-Myers Squibb Company | 11,553 | $530,685.26 | $702,653.46 | - | $171,968.2 | 32.4% | +0.413% |
BND Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund | 40,528 | $2.93M | $2.87M | - | -$55,496.2 | -1.89% | +0.139% |
BRK-B Berkshire Hathaway Inc. | 1,308 | $601,276.08 | $693,998.64 | - | $92,722.56 | 15.42% | +0.932% |
BTI British American Tobacco p.l.c. ADR | 17,387 | $652,850.09 | $1.03M | - | $380,633.19 | 58.3% | +2.483% |
BUD Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A. ADR | 8,626 | $439,305.32 | $713,413.33 | - | $274,108.01 | 62.4% | +1.753% |
BUFR FT Vestladder Buffer ETF-USD I | 21,900 | $690,472.72 | $827,820 | - | $137,347.28 | 19.89% | 0.0 |
BXP Boston Properties, Inc. | 7,041 | $522,375.19 | $422,847.25 | - | -$99,527.94 | -19.05% | +0.611% |