Barry Coffman

Active angel investor and mentor to entrepreneurs.

📍 Needham, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 32 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024
VC🌍 United States
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Board Observer at Wahts Hearing
May 2024
No booth, no time, no problem. Occupational hearing testing and hearing protector fit testing are easy and efficient with the WAHTS headset and audhere app. WAHTS is an OSHA- and ANSI-compliant calibrated headset with a built-in wireless audiometer. The WAHTS earcups attenuate sound on par with a single-walled sound booth. Pairing with the audhere app makes it easy to manage automated testing of groups or conduct one-on-one testing for individual needs. The system can be used in conference rooms, waiting areas, classrooms, occupational exam rooms, and more!
Board Member
Jun 2019
The Realplay Video technology was created a means of providing every athlete unprecedented access to video of their performance; edited, tagged and posted for them after every game on a user-friendly platform. Our proprietary camera systems are installed at private fields or public institutions to provide season long video for each game played. In an effort to provide the best product to our customers, the cameras are designed to work so that coaches only need to turn them on and enter the starting lineup. The cameras and processor automate all the time-consuming production steps; we remove the cameras at the end of the season. We know the market is hungry for our product and want to be able to deliver high quality video to as many passionate parents, players and coaches as possible. Realplay offers a variety of partnership models with facilities, teams, tournaments, showcases and camps that embed our video product and prices into existing customer experiences. The video we produce is unmatched by competitors from the amateur to professional levels of sports. Our Split-Screen views are meant to not only be the most compelling video a player or coach can review, but the most revealing regarding the mechanics of the athletes. This allows coaches to give the best instruction, and athletes to understand comprehensively how to make the physical adjustments that will help their game. Players post their highlights and stats on the Realplay recruiting marketplace we describe as the “LinkedIn of Sports.” College recruiters and pro-scouts scour the Realplay player-database to find prospects with substantial video to perform comprehensive analysis and determine if a player is worth pursuing.
Board Member
Jan 2016
We turn action sports into a big online game - play Tony Hawk Pro Skater in the real world vs. the TV screen. We created the WOO - an innovative wearable for action sports that measures things like airtime, jump height, g-force, slope conditions, among many other key metrics. The collected data is transmitted to the iOS and Android app and the cloud which creates value for three sets of customers: Consumers: Create an exciting mobile experience for action sport participants through gamification and social media. The collected data will allow us to create online leaderboards, competitions, challenges, and build an engaged social media community - turn action sports into an online game Media: Enhance media and event formats with quantified data. Action sports are still judged by the human eye, we bring it to the next level. The action sports ecosystem is long overdue for an objective score. Brands: Build closer connections between brands and their customers by delivering meaningful data about who their customers are, and allowing them to sell and promote product through our platform. For press inquiries please contact: eric@woosports.com
Board Member
Nov 2015
Happie is the first industry and geography-agnostic recruiting marketplace. We connect employers directly with qualified, engaged, and interested candidates for any job, anywhere. By automating most of the pieces of the recruiting funnel, we can deliver success for our customers faster, and at 40% lower price than traditional staffing firms. Our products allow you to attract, engage, and connect with more qualified candidates, faster than ever. Happie is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. We're backed by top-tier investors, and have a growing, passionate team. To get started or learn more, visit gethappie.me and follow us on Instagram: @happiecareers and Twitter: @gethappie.
Board Observer
Sep 2015
We didnt set out to be just another test prep company. We set out to humanize a part of education that millions of students struggle with. Testive offers a FREE SAT/ACT prep software that all students with an Internet connection can access. Our software focuses on our students weak areas, shows them a video of why they got a question wrong, helps them reflect on their mistakes, and keeps serving up questions in these areas to help them master the material. Our paid coaching program helps students stay on track when prepping for the SAT and ACT. All of our coaches have scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT or ACT. They monitor each students progress daily and meet with them weekly via video chat to help them get the most out of their test prep so theyre confident on test day. Testive students have increased their SAT & ACT scores 3x the industry average and have been accepted to some of the most prestigious colleges in the country. We are a graduate of the TechStars Accelerator program and are based in Boston, MA and Durham, NC.
Board Observer
Sep 2014
Smart Lunches provides healthy, tasty lunches to thousands of school children in the Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, and New York regions. We provide a valuable enhanced service to the school, convenience and nutritional security to the parents, and a good lunch to the students. Parents use our online platform to order their child’s lunch from our daily menu, our local catering partners create the customized meal for each child, and our team of Ambassadors hand deliver each meal to our school partners before lunchtime. We are growing rapidly, adding new school partners and new lunchers daily and are adding new regions every year.
Board Member
Jan 2011
Pixability helps marketers drive brand suitable campaigns and full-funnel performance across YouTube and Connected TV. Our platform, PixabilityONE, empowers agency and brand marketers to activate video at every stage of the consumer journey, drive campaign performance, and achieve business objectives. We provide brand suitability technology, deep audience insights, precise contextual targeting, video creative decisioning, automated in-flight performance optimizations, and custom reporting. Pixability is headquartered in Boston with offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and London.
Investor
1994
Boston Duck Tours is Boston's most popular sightseeing tour. With 3 convenient departure locations: Museum of Science, Prudential Center and New England Aquarium. More than 600k passengers ride each season, offering an ideal activity for any group outing whether it be convention, corporate, senior or school group. With 28 DUCKS in the fleet, the maximum carrying capacity is 972 passengers at one time! Boston Duck Tours is Boston's only Tour that offers a land & water tour of the Charles River, offering guests breathtaking views of the city skyline from the Charles. Contrary to local belief, the unique idea of a Duck Tour did not originate in Boston. Duck operations have been in existence in the Midwest for decades, and in fact, continue to thrive. What we did, however, is take a unique product and improve and enhance it, while at the same time bringing it to a major metropolitan city. To book your next group outing, special event or transportation needs with us, please call us at 617-450-0068 or email us at Info@BostonDuckTours.com. When speaking with our Sales Representative, ask about great lunch, dinner and attraction options that you may add to your group tour. It would be our pleasure to assist you with all of your tour needs while in town. Come and experience the most popular tour in Boston!
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2024
Board Observer at Wahts Hearing
May 2024
No booth, no time, no problem. Occupational hearing testing and hearing protector fit testing are easy and efficient with the WAHTS headset and audhere app. WAHTS is an OSHA- and ANSI-compliant calibrated headset with a built-in wireless audiometer. The WAHTS earcups attenuate sound on par with a single-walled sound booth. Pairing with the audhere app makes it easy to manage automated testing of groups or conduct one-on-one testing for individual needs. The system can be used in conference rooms, waiting areas, classrooms, occupational exam rooms, and more!
2019
Board Member
Jun 2019
The Realplay Video technology was created a means of providing every athlete unprecedented access to video of their performance; edited, tagged and posted for them after every game on a user-friendly platform. Our proprietary camera systems are installed at private fields or public institutions to provide season long video for each game played. In an effort to provide the best product to our customers, the cameras are designed to work so that coaches only need to turn them on and enter the starting lineup. The cameras and processor automate all the time-consuming production steps; we remove the cameras at the end of the season. We know the market is hungry for our product and want to be able to deliver high quality video to as many passionate parents, players and coaches as possible. Realplay offers a variety of partnership models with facilities, teams, tournaments, showcases and camps that embed our video product and prices into existing customer experiences. The video we produce is unmatched by competitors from the amateur to professional levels of sports. Our Split-Screen views are meant to not only be the most compelling video a player or coach can review, but the most revealing regarding the mechanics of the athletes. This allows coaches to give the best instruction, and athletes to understand comprehensively how to make the physical adjustments that will help their game. Players post their highlights and stats on the Realplay recruiting marketplace we describe as the “LinkedIn of Sports.” College recruiters and pro-scouts scour the Realplay player-database to find prospects with substantial video to perform comprehensive analysis and determine if a player is worth pursuing.
2016
Board Member
Jan 2016
We turn action sports into a big online game - play Tony Hawk Pro Skater in the real world vs. the TV screen. We created the WOO - an innovative wearable for action sports that measures things like airtime, jump height, g-force, slope conditions, among many other key metrics. The collected data is transmitted to the iOS and Android app and the cloud which creates value for three sets of customers: Consumers: Create an exciting mobile experience for action sport participants through gamification and social media. The collected data will allow us to create online leaderboards, competitions, challenges, and build an engaged social media community - turn action sports into an online game Media: Enhance media and event formats with quantified data. Action sports are still judged by the human eye, we bring it to the next level. The action sports ecosystem is long overdue for an objective score. Brands: Build closer connections between brands and their customers by delivering meaningful data about who their customers are, and allowing them to sell and promote product through our platform. For press inquiries please contact: eric@woosports.com
2015
Board Member
Nov 2015
Happie is the first industry and geography-agnostic recruiting marketplace. We connect employers directly with qualified, engaged, and interested candidates for any job, anywhere. By automating most of the pieces of the recruiting funnel, we can deliver success for our customers faster, and at 40% lower price than traditional staffing firms. Our products allow you to attract, engage, and connect with more qualified candidates, faster than ever. Happie is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. We're backed by top-tier investors, and have a growing, passionate team. To get started or learn more, visit gethappie.me and follow us on Instagram: @happiecareers and Twitter: @gethappie.
Board Observer
Sep 2015
We didnt set out to be just another test prep company. We set out to humanize a part of education that millions of students struggle with. Testive offers a FREE SAT/ACT prep software that all students with an Internet connection can access. Our software focuses on our students weak areas, shows them a video of why they got a question wrong, helps them reflect on their mistakes, and keeps serving up questions in these areas to help them master the material. Our paid coaching program helps students stay on track when prepping for the SAT and ACT. All of our coaches have scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT or ACT. They monitor each students progress daily and meet with them weekly via video chat to help them get the most out of their test prep so theyre confident on test day. Testive students have increased their SAT & ACT scores 3x the industry average and have been accepted to some of the most prestigious colleges in the country. We are a graduate of the TechStars Accelerator program and are based in Boston, MA and Durham, NC.
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