Aaron DeRose

Investor, Board Member, CEO

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025
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15
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3
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4
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19y
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Portfolio

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Board Observer
Sep 2025
Fello’s mission is to empower businesses of all sizes with data-driven intelligence to drive smarter engagement, unlock new opportunities, and scale growth. As an AI-driven Customer Engagement and Marketing Automation Platform, Fello helps businesses turn their database into revenue by combining predictive insights, automation, and personalized outreach. Professionals can engage, convert, and grow—whether they’re nurturing leads, reactivating past clients, or maximizing customer relationships. With AI-powered lead intelligence, automated engagement workflows, and smart consumer experiences, Fello enables businesses to prioritize high-value contacts, drive timely actions, and build deeper connections. Seamless integrations make it easy to scale across existing tech stacks, ensuring efficiency and impact. Trusted by real estate teams, mortgage professionals, and businesses beyond, Fello delivers AI-driven automation to help you stay ahead. Let’s turn your database into your biggest growth engine. Schedule a demo today! https://fello.ai/demo
Board Observer
Apr 2024
Powered by MRP wants to radically decrease healthcare cost with technology first solutions. Our commitment is to build the first digitally enabled end- to-end marketplace for Medical Aesthetic Professional. At Powered by MRP we focus on providing aesthetic lasers & devices, resources, training, education and support to our customers to empower them to deliver top service to their clients. We are committed to a culture of collaboration where every voice is heard and understood. We believe in embracing diversity and that it brings better insight, solutions, and serves as the most intentional way to better our company. This supports our strategy, partnerships and collaboration to achieve being the most trusted Aesthetic Marketplace throughout the world.
Board Observer
Jun 2023
Alianza delivers the only true cloud-native, carrier-grade communications platform built for service providers. Our proprietary full-stack cloud communications platform offers wholesale residential and business communications services, including voice, video conferencing, collaboration, text messaging, and standalone UC softphones. Our team of experts are passionate about transforming communications delivery and ensuring first-rate customer experiences for more than 200 service providers worldwide. As a result of the platform’s exceptional quality and always-on availability, our service providers can innovate quickly and address the evolving demands of their end-user customers in a way that is easy to manage, easy to consume, and highly profitable.
Board Member
Sep 2021
Platform Accounting Group specializes in acquiring and running independent accounting firms. Platform gives retiring CPAs the financial security they deserve while continuing the one-on-one relationships their clients expect. All while delivering tax and accounting services in a fresh and modern way. Were a team of seasoned accounting, M&A, and marketing professionals bringing new technology, advanced operating models, and a different way of doing business to an old industry. We believe that smaller is better. That relationships matter. And that a smarter approach can help local firms and the CPAs who run them deliver more value and amazing customer experience. Platform has a growing presence under a number of localized brands throughout the Western U.S.
late stageAccounting
Board Observer
May 2021
Color Factory is a collaborative interactive exhibit that debuted in San Francisco in 2017, New York in 2018, and Houston in 2019. What was intended as a month-long run unexpectedly flourished as a celebration of color and creativity that’s lasted over 3 years. We feature participatory installations of colors we’ve collected around our cities - hues that invite curiosity, discovery, and play. Some of our favorite artists, creatives, designers, and makers team up with us to tell their unique color stories and engage all of your senses in unexpected ways.
Board Observer
Mar 2021
Emmersion is a fully automated and adaptive language assessment engine for certifying speaking, writing, and grammar ability in 10 global languages with immediate results.
Board Member
Jan 2021
Dónde enables companies to offer travel as a benefit. Our platform allows companies to contribute to their employees time off activities, so they can return to work refreshed and able to do the best work of their lives.
Board Member
Jan 2021
Kiln provides flexible office space and coworking solutions for individuals and teams. Our coworking communities are built to inspire, connect, and accelerate growth. Kiln works to increase the growth rates of its member companies through a network of resources and programs that enable access to insight, capital, and talent.
mid stageHospitality
Co-Founder & Board Member
Oct 2018
RIVNs automated design supplements your existing data subject rights program. RIVN Delete will find and delete customer data out of your third party data and ad tech vendors for you. This includes unknown PII, such as IP addresses. As a result, RIVN is the only company that can delete all customer PII, including PII from third party vendors.
Board Member
Sep 2015
MNTN builds advertising software for brands to drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits and more through the power of television. MNTN Performance TV is the world’s first and only Connected TV advertising platform optimized for direct-response marketing goals. It redefines what advertisers can do with television, giving them the power to tie performance directly to their TV campaigns.
Board Member
Dec 2012
Goal Zero was founded to fulfill a need for portable, cost effective power solutions in the Congo. That cause propelled Goal Zero to create solar panels, power packs and lighting products that can be used effectively anywhere in the world. Whether you’re on a humanitarian mission in central Africa, at Everest’s basecamp, or anywhere in between, Goal Zero can keep you powered. An NRG Energy, Inc. Company
mid stageManufacturing
Board Member
Mar 2011
We enable the freedom to securely connect people, places, and things that drive more experiences, new ways to work, and better business results — anywhere. We are a pioneer in advanced 4G and 5G routers and adapters for Wireless WAN — controlled through Cradlepoint NetCloud — and offer a range of solutions for private cellular networks and application, data, and network security. Enterprises and public sector agencies rely on our Cellular Intelligence to securely connect fixed and temporary sites, vehicles, IoT devices, and remote employees. Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Cradlepoint is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson and part of its Business Area Enterprise Wireless Solutions. We have international offices in Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, India, and Latin America. If you’re eager to be part of something big, come join us. We’re hiring, and we’re looking in all corners of the world for the right talent to build our teams.
Board Member
Dec 2009
In 2009, we took the stance to reimagine what was once a stagnant staple and transform socks into one of fashion’s most exciting accessories. By unlocking the creative potential of an open canvas too often overlooked, we ignited a worldwide cultural movement that has attracted visionary artists, athletes and icons to embrace our positive message of individuality, movement and self-expression. In the years since, our vision has expanded from toe to head with a full line of colorful apparel styles for a life in motion… because why should feet have all the fun? Through a bold combination of technological innovation, superior comfort and fresh artistic design that has become the foundation of our brand, Stance apparel can now be found in over 40 countries for anyone looking to defy convention. We are Stitched Different®.
Board Observer
Dec 2007
Based in Park City, Utah, Skullcandy is the original lifestyle audio brand that lives by its mission to not just listen to music but to feel it. Founded with a belief in the bond between music and board sports, Skullcandy drives innovation in audio experiences from groundbreaking, immersive technology in our headphones to once in a lifetime music events featuring emerging artists that inspire and move our culture forward. We became one of the worlds most distinct audio brands by bringing color, character, and performance to an otherwise monochromatic space; revolutionizing the audio arena by introducing headphones, earbuds, and other audio and wireless lifestyle products that possess unmistakable style and exceptional performance. From our mind-blowing Crushers that give you bass you can actually feel to legendary culture pieces like our Icon headphones, and a roster of some of the worlds finest athletes, musicians, and artists, Skullcandy continues to redefine world-class audio performance and style. We pride ourselves on our one-of-a-kind workspace, balancing work and play, and being accountable for one another so we succeed as a brand. If you think you’re a good fit for a company that thrives on music, adventure, and a tight-knit community, we’d be stoked to have you.
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Investments (13)
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Board (13)
2025
Board Observer
Sep 2025
Fello’s mission is to empower businesses of all sizes with data-driven intelligence to drive smarter engagement, unlock new opportunities, and scale growth. As an AI-driven Customer Engagement and Marketing Automation Platform, Fello helps businesses turn their database into revenue by combining predictive insights, automation, and personalized outreach. Professionals can engage, convert, and grow—whether they’re nurturing leads, reactivating past clients, or maximizing customer relationships. With AI-powered lead intelligence, automated engagement workflows, and smart consumer experiences, Fello enables businesses to prioritize high-value contacts, drive timely actions, and build deeper connections. Seamless integrations make it easy to scale across existing tech stacks, ensuring efficiency and impact. Trusted by real estate teams, mortgage professionals, and businesses beyond, Fello delivers AI-driven automation to help you stay ahead. Let’s turn your database into your biggest growth engine. Schedule a demo today! https://fello.ai/demo
2024
Board Observer
Apr 2024
Powered by MRP wants to radically decrease healthcare cost with technology first solutions. Our commitment is to build the first digitally enabled end- to-end marketplace for Medical Aesthetic Professional. At Powered by MRP we focus on providing aesthetic lasers & devices, resources, training, education and support to our customers to empower them to deliver top service to their clients. We are committed to a culture of collaboration where every voice is heard and understood. We believe in embracing diversity and that it brings better insight, solutions, and serves as the most intentional way to better our company. This supports our strategy, partnerships and collaboration to achieve being the most trusted Aesthetic Marketplace throughout the world.
2023
Board Observer
Jun 2023
Alianza delivers the only true cloud-native, carrier-grade communications platform built for service providers. Our proprietary full-stack cloud communications platform offers wholesale residential and business communications services, including voice, video conferencing, collaboration, text messaging, and standalone UC softphones. Our team of experts are passionate about transforming communications delivery and ensuring first-rate customer experiences for more than 200 service providers worldwide. As a result of the platform’s exceptional quality and always-on availability, our service providers can innovate quickly and address the evolving demands of their end-user customers in a way that is easy to manage, easy to consume, and highly profitable.
Co-Founder, Partner
Jan 2023
Swell Collective is a growth equity fund based in Lehi, UT. We are focused on partnering with companies that want flexible capital partners focused on long term objectives.
2021
Board Member
Sep 2021
Platform Accounting Group specializes in acquiring and running independent accounting firms. Platform gives retiring CPAs the financial security they deserve while continuing the one-on-one relationships their clients expect. All while delivering tax and accounting services in a fresh and modern way. Were a team of seasoned accounting, M&A, and marketing professionals bringing new technology, advanced operating models, and a different way of doing business to an old industry. We believe that smaller is better. That relationships matter. And that a smarter approach can help local firms and the CPAs who run them deliver more value and amazing customer experience. Platform has a growing presence under a number of localized brands throughout the Western U.S.
late stageAccounting
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