DIVINE - Music Artist

Victor D. Lombard, professionally known as DIVINE, is a former professional Hip-Hop/Rap artist and the CEO and founder of Solvent, a fintech startup focused on financial empowerment for the System Impacted. In 2022, Solvent was selected for Amazon's AWS Impact Accelerator for Black Founders and accepted in Village Capital’s Innovations In Justice Tech Fellowship Program. DIVINE made a unique entrance into the technology industry in 2014. With an 8th-grade education and a decade of incarceration, he broke into Silicon Valley venture capital after reaching out to famed venture capitalist and co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz via Twitter and asking Horowitz to mentor him. Over the past nine years, DIVINE has become a financial technology founder, worked within corporate and the nonprofit Criminal Justice Reform space, and is a CJR advocate and activist. As a System Impacted individual, DIVINE's personal life story and entrepreneurial journey of
redemption has been featured in major media outlets such as Forbes, TechCrunch, Black Enterprise, Entrepreneur, and Inc.