Amy Bann

Tech Leadership | Board Director | AI & B2B Software | Global Business Strategy | Growth Marketing | Product & GTM | Regulated Industries | Energy & Materials

๐Ÿ“ United States๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 5 investments๐Ÿ“… 6 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Feb 2023
VC๐ŸŒ United States
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Board Member
Feb 2023
BioCoTech Americas is at the forefront of sustainable waste management, offering cutting-edge composting technology that transforms organic waste into nutrient-rich compost. With exclusive rights to distribute the innovative BioSpeed Composting Technology across the Americas, BioCoTech is revolutionizing how businesses, institutions, and communities manage their organic waste. Our aerobic in-vessel composting systems can process up to 4,000 lbs of food waste daily, significantly reducing landfill contributions and greenhouse gas emissions. Our technology has already been embraced by industry leaders, including fortune 100 companies, the NBA, the NFL, resorts and hotels, The National Parks, and many more, underscoring our commitment to sustainability and operational excellence.
Investor
Dec 2022
GroGuru is all about strategic water management for commercial farmers. We help farmers to increase crop yield, and more efficiently use water and other scarce resources in a more sustainable way. We provide a technology that does continuous soil monitoring at the crop root zone. GroGuru WUGS (wireless underground system) is our patented wireless technology that enables the permanent installation of soils sensors and the continuous proprietary data stream. GroGuru InSites is our enabled Cloud-based recommendation engine that provides recommendations to farmers via a very simple, intuitive, farmer-friendly user interfacer (UI) that the farmer can access on his or her mobile device, tablet or computer. GroGuru currently sells through a dealer network in the United States.
late stageFarming
Investor
Jun 2022
Accurate understanding starts with empathy. mpathic powers SaaS platforms with real-time conversation analytics, training and suggestions, improving outcomes in healthcare and client services. With over a decade of scientific validation, mpathics proprietary ML models deliver unmatched accuracy, enabling the detection, correction, and enhancement of over 200 human behaviors with the accuracy of human doctors.
Investor
Mar 2022
The best way to buy and sell used electric cars. Get battery and range reports on used EVs at https://www.recurrentauto.com.
Investor
Sep 2020
Steelhead Composites is a world-class advanced manufacturing company, based in Golden, Colorado (USA). Steelhead is dedicated to the design, engineering, manufacturing, testing and certificating of hydrogen storage systems. We also offer a full array of technical services in vessel design, metal spin forming, rotational molding, filament winding, prototyping and testing of hydrogen storage components and systems. Steelheads hydrogen storage is certified and deployed in aerospace, stationary, mobility and maritime applications. Our patented technologies and engineering know-how in composite pressure vessels enable us to develop and certify products specific to customer needs. Steelhead prides itself on being able to deliver reliable, safe and custom vessels within a set, and often short, timeframe by relying on our in-house experts and dedication to manufacturing excellence. This allows Steelhead to bypass the traditional vendor / customer relationship by being more of a strategic partner to our customers through active participation in the development and launch of new products. For more information, contact sales@steelheadcomposites.com or visit www.steelheadcomposites.com.
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2025
Executive Partner
Feb 2025
thrv (pronounced "thrive") is an Independent Sponsor making investments in private technology companies. We create equity value for portfolio companies through product innovation using our proprietary Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) method and patented software. Your customers arent buying your products; they are hiring them to get a job done. This is the foundational Jobs-to-be-Done insight popularized by Harvard Business Schools Clay Christensen. We use your customers job-to-be-done to identify unmet needs, analyze your competition, optimize your marketing messages, and improve your lead scoring for your existing product. And we develop a growth strategy for your roadmap and new product development that will accelerate your growth and create equity value faster and with less risk.
2023
Ensemble Fund | Sector Advisor, Screening Committee
Sep 2023
Co-founded by Yoko Okano and Minda Brusse, First Row Partners invests in tech addressing three inherent human ambitions: :: wisdom passing :: culture creation :: transparent trade The complexity building tech solutions in any of these 3 spaces requires a team with specialized insights and deep understanding of the 2+ party exchange and negotiation/acceptance. These complex actions are ideal for incubating emerging tech where a broader relevance is unlocked as AI increases in quality and use.
Fractional CXO & Advisor
Sep 2023
We are a group of career coaches who are helping professionals in their career planning efforts. We design career strategies for working professionals, senior managers, managers, c-level executives and students.
Advisory Board Member
Mar 2023
Focused on increasing transgenerational wealth for communities that have too often been left behind.
Board Member
Feb 2023
BioCoTech Americas is at the forefront of sustainable waste management, offering cutting-edge composting technology that transforms organic waste into nutrient-rich compost. With exclusive rights to distribute the innovative BioSpeed Composting Technology across the Americas, BioCoTech is revolutionizing how businesses, institutions, and communities manage their organic waste. Our aerobic in-vessel composting systems can process up to 4,000 lbs of food waste daily, significantly reducing landfill contributions and greenhouse gas emissions. Our technology has already been embraced by industry leaders, including fortune 100 companies, the NBA, the NFL, resorts and hotels, The National Parks, and many more, underscoring our commitment to sustainability and operational excellence.
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