Linda Nash

Linda Nash, Angel investor in Richmond is an active investor based in Richmond, Virginia. This profile covers what Linda Nash backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Ms. Linda Nash is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at WellcomeMD. Ms. Nash also served as Operating Partner at Shore Capital Partners. She co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at PartnerMD. Before this, she designed and started the Compass Schools, a private preschool and kindergarten, where she served as Chief Executive Officer for three years. She is also an Angel Investor. She served as board member for Specialdocs Consultants. She also advises her family company, Track and Field News, and Track and Field Tours, where she is a major shareholder. She also served as Chairman of the Board and President of The Attention Builders, Inc. She has also consulted with start-ups, family-run companies, and preschools on a variety of projects, including Collegiate Schools, Nobel Education Dynamics, and a variety of companies. She also served on Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine's Healthcare Commission, charged with reducing the costs of health care. She also started the first exclusively school-age childcare program in Richmond. Over the next 15 years, she opened the first office park childcare center, partnered with Henrico Doctors' Hospital, and opened six more workplace childcare centers in Richmond and Northern Virginia. After 15 years, she sold the schools to a public company and then began a national consulting practice helping preschool start-ups and chains with curriculum, design, business models, and acquisitions. She also helped a chain of eight schools successfully find a national buyer by partnering with a merger and acquisition firm. She is now on the board of the Hand Workshop, the board of the Powell Endowment, a national group promoting entrepreneurship and economics education in schools, and also the board of the Venture Forum. She serves on the University of Richmond Business School Entrepreneur Advisory Board, and she has served on the boards of The Visual Arts Center, The Children's Museum of Richmond. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, holds a MA (Master of Arts) in Journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University and has a master's degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.