Austin Poole

AI & Growth Advisory and Forward Deployed Engineering at Tenon

📍 Atlanta Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Board Observer
May 2019
ChartSpan is the largest, managed service provider of chronic care management programs in the United States. The company provides turnkey, managed care coordination and compliance programs including MIPS management and Annual Wellness Visit solutions for doctors, clinics, and health systems. Headquartered in Greenville, SC, ChartSpan manages patient care coordination and value-based programs for more than 100 of the most successful practices and health systems in the United States.
Board Observer
May 2019
ConnexPay is the first and only company to bring together the two sides of the payment process—payments acceptance and virtual payments issuing—into a single platform with one contract and one reconciliation. The flexibility of this technology allows clients to adopt the full end-to-end acquiring and issuing solution or leverage ConnexPay’s innovative intelligent routing issuing-only platform. Through innovative and patent-pending payments technology, ConnexPay provides reduced payments risk, a new source of revenue, automated reconciliation, and guaranteed lower merchant processing fees—all while avoiding large lines of credit or prepayments. Founded in 2017, ConnexPay is a leading payments provider for travel agencies and brokers, ecommerce providers, online marketplaces, and more.
Board Member
Dec 2018
For commercial and government entities that depend on the performance of high-value and mission critical assets or "things", ThingTech provides Enterprise Asset Management and Fleet Management solutions that are IoT data enabled to reduce costs, optimize asset utilization, and generate new revenue streams. ThingTech's cloud-based purpose built for mobility, automation, and data insights to ensure that teams, no matter where they are located, have the required, real-time access to the tools and data needed to perform their jobs at the highest level of efficiency. -2019 ThingTech was selected as a "Top 40" innovative technology company by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). Check out our website for additional information at www.thingtech.com
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2026
Principal
Jun 2026
Tenon is a forward-deployed AI engineering firm. We embed with your team and build working AI systems — not slide decks, not strategy reports, not proofs of concept that never ship. We work with mid-market companies ready to move past AI hype into real operational gains. The people you meet are the people who do the work. No bait-and-switch. No layers of junior staff. Our approach is build-first. Working software from week one. We start with a fixed-fee discovery phase to understand your operations, then pilot 2-3 high-value use cases against your actual systems. What works becomes production software. What doesnt, we tell you honestly. We build on the Anthropic Claude ecosystem — not because its the only option, but because depth beats breadth. No frameworks that hide whats happening. No generic chatbots. Everything we build is yours. No vendor lock-in. No proprietary platforms. Your infrastructure, your data, your control. Based in Atlanta. Working with growth-focused companies nationwide.
2022
Partner
Oct 2022
BIP Ventures is the North American-focused venture capital division of BIP Capital. It is one of Southeasts largest and most active VC firms. BIP Ventures consistently produces exceptional outcomes for founders and top-quartile returns for investors. We partner with people who share our passion for solving real problems and unleashing the power of innovation to create incomparable value. Since 2007, BIP Ventures has invested in the success of B2B software and tech-enabled service businesses at all stages of maturity. In addition to capital, we support entrepreneurs with access to infrastructure, acumen, and talent that results in category-leading companies. A distinct multi-stage investment platform drives consistent top-quartile returns. BIP Ventures contains Panoramic Ventures, BIP Opportunities Funds, BIP Capital Venture Funds.
Partner
Oct 2022
BIP Capital is recognized as one of the most active Venture Capital firms in the Southeast, serving entrepreneurs, investors, and operators to grow the emerging company ecosystem in our geographic area. We apply experience and process to make both investment decisions and operational recommendations, allowing our portfolio companies to get and stay on a glide path of growth.
2019
Board Observer
May 2019
ChartSpan is the largest, managed service provider of chronic care management programs in the United States. The company provides turnkey, managed care coordination and compliance programs including MIPS management and Annual Wellness Visit solutions for doctors, clinics, and health systems. Headquartered in Greenville, SC, ChartSpan manages patient care coordination and value-based programs for more than 100 of the most successful practices and health systems in the United States.
Board Observer
May 2019
ConnexPay is the first and only company to bring together the two sides of the payment process—payments acceptance and virtual payments issuing—into a single platform with one contract and one reconciliation. The flexibility of this technology allows clients to adopt the full end-to-end acquiring and issuing solution or leverage ConnexPay’s innovative intelligent routing issuing-only platform. Through innovative and patent-pending payments technology, ConnexPay provides reduced payments risk, a new source of revenue, automated reconciliation, and guaranteed lower merchant processing fees—all while avoiding large lines of credit or prepayments. Founded in 2017, ConnexPay is a leading payments provider for travel agencies and brokers, ecommerce providers, online marketplaces, and more.
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