Nasir Jones, professionally known as Nas, is a musician and entrepreneur. The multiplatinum artist and his business manager Anthony Selah, along with four other managing partners have created a venture capital portfolio by investing in more than 40 tech start-ups through their business investment enterprise, QueensBridge Venture Partners. These start-ups, most of which stem from their partnerships with Silicon Valley, include Lyft, Genius, Dropbox, Nation Builder, Puto.tv, Vengo, The Noun Project, Virgin Mega, Block Cypher, Mighty Signal, Amplitude, Inkshares, Fiscal Note, Brightline and various others.