Gregory Lake

Private Equity-Backed CEO | 3X Exit Operator | Value Creation in Recurring Revenue & Multi-Location Businesses | Route Based Residential/Commercial Pest and Lawn Services

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025
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Chief Executive Officer - Board Member
Aug 2025
Rumble Pest Solutions delivers reliable, hassle-free pest control services across Northwest Arkansas and Central & Southwest Missouri. With decades of industry experience, our team protects homes and businesses from the pests that cause the most stress — including ants, termites, bed bugs, rodents, spiders, mosquitoes, flies, and stinging insects. What makes Rumble Pest different? • Comprehensive pest control services tailored to your home or business needs • Safe, effective treatments designed to protect families, pets, and properties • Same-day service available in many areas • Pest-free guarantee — if pests come back, so do we • Free inspections & estimates so you know exactly what to expect We combine proven methods with a customer-first approach to keep your property protected year-round. Whether you’re searching for residential pest control, commercial pest management, or long-term preventative care, Rumble Pest Solutions has you covered.
Angel Investor
Feb 2025
Board Budder is redefining performance wax for the outdoor industry by replacing petroleum paraffin and PFAS chemicals with advanced natural and renewable materials that ride clean and perform better. Founded by a team of skiers & snowboarders, scientists, and outdoor adventurers, we’re driven by one mission: to protect the ride, the riders, and the places that make it all possible. Every bar of Board Budder is built from the ground up—engineered in the lab, tested in real conditions, and proven by the riders who make it. We don’t outsource innovation or follow trends. We question everything, build from science, and back it up with proof. If it doesn’t ride as fast or as smooth as the best paraffin wax on the market, it doesn’t leave our shop. Our vision is simple: a cleaner future for the outdoor industry where performance and sustainability are never at odds. We’re leading a movement to eliminate toxins from wax and tune culture—protecting the outdoors from pollution while proving that “eco” doesn’t mean “less.” The Board Budder ethos, Shred Responsibly, represents more than clean chemistry. It’s about earning respect through action—riding hard, building better, and leaving nothing toxic behind. We exist for the ones who ride until last chair, the ones who still patch rails in the dark, and the ones who care about what they leave behind when the snow melts. Performance. Profile. Purity. That’s our formula—for wax, for innovation, and for the future of the ride.
Investor
Dec 2024
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
Angel Investor
Nov 2024
Quantizr is the AI-powered operations platform purpose-built for the entertainment industry, serving artist managers, business managers, and booking agents. It automates the extraction of critical financial and deal terms from deal memos, contracts, and settlement statements, transforming fragmented, unstructured documents into standardized, actionable data. For more information, visit quantizr.com.
Angel Investor
Jul 2024
Accelerating Intelligence Beyond Human Limits Revolutionizing AI through Generative Algorithms
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2025
Chief Executive Officer - Board Member
Aug 2025
Rumble Pest Solutions delivers reliable, hassle-free pest control services across Northwest Arkansas and Central & Southwest Missouri. With decades of industry experience, our team protects homes and businesses from the pests that cause the most stress — including ants, termites, bed bugs, rodents, spiders, mosquitoes, flies, and stinging insects. What makes Rumble Pest different? • Comprehensive pest control services tailored to your home or business needs • Safe, effective treatments designed to protect families, pets, and properties • Same-day service available in many areas • Pest-free guarantee — if pests come back, so do we • Free inspections & estimates so you know exactly what to expect We combine proven methods with a customer-first approach to keep your property protected year-round. Whether you’re searching for residential pest control, commercial pest management, or long-term preventative care, Rumble Pest Solutions has you covered.
Angel Investor
Feb 2025
Board Budder is redefining performance wax for the outdoor industry by replacing petroleum paraffin and PFAS chemicals with advanced natural and renewable materials that ride clean and perform better. Founded by a team of skiers & snowboarders, scientists, and outdoor adventurers, we’re driven by one mission: to protect the ride, the riders, and the places that make it all possible. Every bar of Board Budder is built from the ground up—engineered in the lab, tested in real conditions, and proven by the riders who make it. We don’t outsource innovation or follow trends. We question everything, build from science, and back it up with proof. If it doesn’t ride as fast or as smooth as the best paraffin wax on the market, it doesn’t leave our shop. Our vision is simple: a cleaner future for the outdoor industry where performance and sustainability are never at odds. We’re leading a movement to eliminate toxins from wax and tune culture—protecting the outdoors from pollution while proving that “eco” doesn’t mean “less.” The Board Budder ethos, Shred Responsibly, represents more than clean chemistry. It’s about earning respect through action—riding hard, building better, and leaving nothing toxic behind. We exist for the ones who ride until last chair, the ones who still patch rails in the dark, and the ones who care about what they leave behind when the snow melts. Performance. Profile. Purity. That’s our formula—for wax, for innovation, and for the future of the ride.
2024
Investor
Dec 2024
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
Angel Investor
Nov 2024
Quantizr is the AI-powered operations platform purpose-built for the entertainment industry, serving artist managers, business managers, and booking agents. It automates the extraction of critical financial and deal terms from deal memos, contracts, and settlement statements, transforming fragmented, unstructured documents into standardized, actionable data. For more information, visit quantizr.com.
Member | Investor
Sep 2024
The Park City Angels are a group of 50+ accredited investors located in Park City, Utah. We look to invest in promising opportunities that can produce significant shareholder return. The active lifestyle of Park City has attracted many dynamic and successful business leaders that have deep experience in building world class businesses. We facilitate unique, high-caliber networking and development forums for angel investors and mentors involved in early-stage investment. Mission Our mission is to promote best practice in order to reduce risk in early-stage investments for the benefit of entrepreneurs, investors and the community. Team Our members are drawn from private groups, including investors and mentors who are interested in supporting and/or financing early-stage ventures. Our members have in common a strong desire, willingness, and capability to support ventures. We invest in areas where we believe our group can be a true value-added investor. Within our group is an environment where self help and camaraderie predominate, and where members can develop confidence in their early-stage investment skills. Focus PCA typically invests in companies with pre-money valuations in the range of $5M - $50M, but we occasionally consider opportunities that are outside this range. We welcome and encourage all applicants which meet our criteria to apply.
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