Bill Frank

Venture Capital Partner, Board Member, Entrepreneurial Mentor.

📍 Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 31 investments📅 23 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
31
Total investments
15
Early stage
8
Mid stage
2
Late stage
23y
Years active

Portfolio

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Feb 2023
Exel Solar US is a wholesale solar equipment distributor based in Columbus, Ohio. Our founding partners, Exel Solar Mexico and NCT Ventures, have 20+ years experience in marketing and logistics of various wholesale products. Our goal is to build a tool for every type of partner in the U.S. solar industry.
early stageWholesale
Investor and Former Board Member
Mar 2019
SafeWire exists to insure and ensure every real estate transaction is free from wire fraud. Real estate wire fraud is a problem arising from global financial inequality. Often, the criminals involved are from poor countries throughout the world who feel that they are Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to give to the poor. If we’re going to define success with our mission and build a FraudFree™ world, SafeWire will need to positively impact global financial inequality in parts of the world where online fraud is born. Real estate wire fraud isn’t sexy. It is however, a massive problem for the traditional real estate industry. Business Email Compromise (BEC) Fraud has cost over $9B* since 2016. 16% of those losses are specific to Real Estate Wire Fraud.
Investor
Mar 2018
We are a Real Estate technology company with a mission to accelerate the transition of the real estate industry to the Digital Era.
Investor
Mar 2018
We are a clean-tech science and engineering based manufacturing company that develops innovative material technologies and products.
Investor
Oct 2017
We build lifesaving mobility solutions to make vehicles and roads safer and smarter. Our vision is a connected, collision-free world where everyone gets home safely. HAAS Alert’s advanced collision prevention service Safety Cloud® sends real-time digital alerts from emergency vehicles to drivers and connected cars via vehicle dashboards and infotainment systems, navigation applications, and smartphones to aid drivers earlier in making safer, smarter driving decisions.
Investor
Sep 2017
Beez is a leading data analytics and data solutions company. The former company, FactGem, rebranded to Beez in 2021 with a new team focused on enabling organizations to unlock value in their data through innovative solutions. Beez is led by CEO and founder Megan Kvamme, along with COO Steve Stone, the former CIO of two Fortune 100 companies. Beez offers a set of solutions that instantly connects data according to the business rules created in a visual model builder, simplifies analytics, and easily plugs into an existing organizations data infrastructure.
Investor
Sep 2017
SHARE Mobility empowers business, municipalities, and mobility-organizations with software and solutions that equip workforces and communities with reliable transportation options
Investor
Sep 2017
Buzz Solutions provides a platform for teams to manage and analyze data, collaborate, and export inspection results, fostering smart, stable, and resilient infrastructure inspections. We automate the process of infrastructure inspections for faults and anomalies by analyzing millions of visual data points captured by helicopters, drones and linemen in the field. Using our solution, our customers are saving immense time and money as a part of their inspections, while drastically improving the efficiency of their infrastructure inspections.
early stageUtilities
Investor
Sep 2017
Predictive Maintenance Simplified. Trial Vero, our rapidly deployable, end-to-end, condition monitoring solution risk-free for thirty days for only $199 on up to 50 machine assets (200 sensors). We install the complete solution and will have experts monitoring your machine health the same day. Request a demo by calling 844.464.5652 or visit https://www.assetwatch.com/#getstarted
Investor;Board Member
Jun 2017
Heureka enables actionable insight into critical, unstructured data for Data Governance, Data Security & Privacy Compliance, Legal Discovery and Cyber Security. US Patent #10,970,297. Law firms and corporate legal departments depend on Heureka's platforms to quickly identify data relevant for matter preparation. For GRC initiatives, Heureka identifies, classifies and dispositions PII and confidential data.
Investor
May 2017
IUNU (pronounced "you-knew") is building the future of the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) industry. The companys AI-driven LUNA AI platform serves as the operating system for greenhouse profitability by giving growers the tools to measure crop performance, understand what the data means, and act on it to optimize yield, labor, and quality.
Investor
Jan 2017
Founded in 2014, Data Inventions and its inaugural product, Alora, revolutionize how discrete manufacturers use information by aggregating data from ERPs; all ages, brands, and types of machines; and shop floor operators to drive real-time operational improvements that enable mid-market manufacturers to compete internationally. For many of today’s U.S.-based discrete manufacturers, “visibility” is a time-consuming process of sifting through piles of reports, correcting bad data from multiple, siloed systems and even guessing—all to uncover and fix whatever is holding back utilization and production on the shop floor. Data Inventions’ Alora solution changes all that. Data Inventions worked with local discrete manufacturers to design and purpose-build Alora, an economical business intelligence option for mid-market manufacturers typically unable to find affordable business intelligence solutions tailored for their complex, multi-SKU work environments. By working seamlessly with the many systems within a manufacturing business to aggregate and then visualize real-time data, Alora allows synchronization of data across the shop floor, enabling managers and supervisors to turn their attention to jobs off track, issues slowing production, machines offline for no good reason and more—working smarter, not harder. Additionally, Alora is designed to scale quickly and cost-effectively across a variety of discrete manufacturing settings (e.g., machining, fabrication, assembly), systems and machine types—achieving ROI in as few as 90 days by revealing production problems, preventing errors, and phasing out defects to improve productivity, uptime, and utilization across the job shop. By aligning people, systems, and machines, Data Inventions turns manufacturing data into manufacturing intelligence that focuses attention where it is impactful and profitable, empowering individuals, teams, and companies to achieve greater success.
Investor
Nov 2016
The leading EMR & engagement platform for Athletic Trainers - We made injury documentation and communication super easy to give you time back! Save an hour a day with Healthy Roster
Investor
Jun 2016
The Rhyme LiveAuth™ network replaces lengthy prior authorization processes by uniting payers and providers on one network to achieve touchless decisions in real time. Join us, and dramatically increase payer, provider and patient satisfaction.
Investor, Board Member
May 2016
We create solutions for the most challenging environments – from shelters on the battlefield, to clothing built for expeditions on never before summited mountains, to spacecraft leaving the Earth’s atmosphere. Our vision is to develop thermal technology that empowers humanity to reach its full potential.
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Board (7)
2023
Investor
Feb 2023
Exel Solar US is a wholesale solar equipment distributor based in Columbus, Ohio. Our founding partners, Exel Solar Mexico and NCT Ventures, have 20+ years experience in marketing and logistics of various wholesale products. Our goal is to build a tool for every type of partner in the U.S. solar industry.
early stageWholesale
2019
Investor and Former Board Member
Mar 2019
SafeWire exists to insure and ensure every real estate transaction is free from wire fraud. Real estate wire fraud is a problem arising from global financial inequality. Often, the criminals involved are from poor countries throughout the world who feel that they are Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to give to the poor. If we’re going to define success with our mission and build a FraudFree™ world, SafeWire will need to positively impact global financial inequality in parts of the world where online fraud is born. Real estate wire fraud isn’t sexy. It is however, a massive problem for the traditional real estate industry. Business Email Compromise (BEC) Fraud has cost over $9B* since 2016. 16% of those losses are specific to Real Estate Wire Fraud.
2018
Investor
Mar 2018
We are a Real Estate technology company with a mission to accelerate the transition of the real estate industry to the Digital Era.
Investor
Mar 2018
We are a clean-tech science and engineering based manufacturing company that develops innovative material technologies and products.
2017
Investor
Oct 2017
We build lifesaving mobility solutions to make vehicles and roads safer and smarter. Our vision is a connected, collision-free world where everyone gets home safely. HAAS Alert’s advanced collision prevention service Safety Cloud® sends real-time digital alerts from emergency vehicles to drivers and connected cars via vehicle dashboards and infotainment systems, navigation applications, and smartphones to aid drivers earlier in making safer, smarter driving decisions.
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