Tom Boosinger

General Partner, Fairtide Capital | Chairman, Synaptic Era, Inc | General Partner, TPI Group | Founder of Youreka | 2x Inc. 5000 CEO

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 3 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2024
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Advisor and Investor
Aug 2024
A Sports Social Impact Platform for the 21st-century student athlete backed by strategic VCs, partners and a rapidly growing list of industry leaders including DeAndre Hopkins, Megan Walker, Barry Sanders, Quinn Cook, Ryan Clark and Nancy Lieberman
Advisor and Investor
Aug 2024
Fastbreak AI is transforming how the world of sports operates. Our AI-powered platforms deliver the intelligence behind scheduling, tournament management and sponsor activation for professional, amateur, and youth sports organizations worldwide. From the NBA, MLS and NHL to sports Federations, NGBs and regional leagues, Fastbreak powers the systems that make sports run better. Our software optimizes logistics, lowers costs, unlocks new revenue streams, and improves sporting experiences for athletes, fans and organizers. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Fastbreak AI is a fast-growing team of innovators, engineers, and sports enthusiasts driven by a shared mission: to improve sports operations and keep costs low. We’re building the future of sports technology—and we’re just getting started. Were always looking for exceptional people: https://www.fastbreak.ai/careers
Investor
Apr 2022
"Youreka helps Salesforce customers elevate the experience of frontline workers without leaving Salesforce Customer 360" — Karen Mehal, VP of Field Service, Salesforce Youreka is closing the skills gap with its proprietary, no-code mobile technology platform that makes it easy to build smart applications that assist field service technicians and frontline workers across various industries: • Manufacturing • Healthcare • Energy & Utilities • Financial Services • Government Built on the leading cloud platform, Salesforce, Youreka enables organizations to elevate the capabilities of their mobile workers and field service technicians, and in turn, improve customer service and accelerate growth.
Experience · 7 entries
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2026
General Partner
Jan 2026
Fairtide Capital invests in essential service businesses and the manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers those businesses depend on. Our model is not a traditional one, and we think that matters in this market. We invest in solid businesses with proven track records, the way private equity does, but without some of the scale restrictions that many funds have. We stay flexible on structure, the way venture capital does, giving us the freedom to back a visionary plan that may not yet have a long-term track record. And we bring operating expertise, capacity, and capability, because building, optimizing, and running these businesses is what we have done for nearly twenty years. That capability is part of what makes us different. We do not write a check and wish an owner well. We bring guidance on growth and go-to-market, support in the day to day, and the best-in-class tools and infrastructure a modern service company needs, including AI that removes busywork, improves efficiency, and allows operators to focus on what they do best. Capital is one part of what we offer, not the whole of it. We work with a small group of long-term capital partners who share this view of the market. We buy businesses we would be glad to own indefinitely, and that patience changes the decisions we make. We are never forced to choose a quick exit over what is right for the business, its employees, and its customers. It also lets us build for two results at once: enterprise value that compounds over decades, and cash returns each year along the way. We have been on both sides of this table. We have built companies in this industry, run them day to day, and sold them. We have worked with hundreds of service businesses, from two-truck shops to the Fortune 100. We welcome conversations with owners thinking about what comes next, this year or several years out, and with the advisors who work alongside them.
2024
Advisor and Investor
Aug 2024
A Sports Social Impact Platform for the 21st-century student athlete backed by strategic VCs, partners and a rapidly growing list of industry leaders including DeAndre Hopkins, Megan Walker, Barry Sanders, Quinn Cook, Ryan Clark and Nancy Lieberman
Advisor and Investor
Aug 2024
Fastbreak AI is transforming how the world of sports operates. Our AI-powered platforms deliver the intelligence behind scheduling, tournament management and sponsor activation for professional, amateur, and youth sports organizations worldwide. From the NBA, MLS and NHL to sports Federations, NGBs and regional leagues, Fastbreak powers the systems that make sports run better. Our software optimizes logistics, lowers costs, unlocks new revenue streams, and improves sporting experiences for athletes, fans and organizers. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Fastbreak AI is a fast-growing team of innovators, engineers, and sports enthusiasts driven by a shared mission: to improve sports operations and keep costs low. We’re building the future of sports technology—and we’re just getting started. Were always looking for exceptional people: https://www.fastbreak.ai/careers
2022
LP
Nov 2022
Observatory Capital Management LLP Asset Management firm founded in 2003
LP
Jul 2022
Boulder Ventures is a specialty venture capital firm, investing in a niche geography, leveraging decades long relationships with proven entrepreneurs and evaluating early stage companies with deep technical and scientific expertise. We spend time and energy cultivating a network of serial entrepreneurs, because they are the source of Boulder Ventures investment ideas. Our serial entrepreneurs are subject matter experts. They consistently hatch market-leading ideas in information technology and life sciences that develop into market-leading companies in software, networking, data storage, drug discovery and tools, and technology enabled services. Our model is to be the first professional investor in our portfolio companies, and to reserve capital to participate in multiple investment rounds. We capture value and a deal flow advantage by focusing our investments in two underserved geographies: Colorado and the Mid-Atlantic. Boulder Ventures, with nearly 20 years of venture capital experience, continues to be a leading partner to serial entrepreneurs and a trusted advisor to our investors.
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