Brad Ball

Hospitality and Real Estate Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2024
VC🌍 United States
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Jul 2024
Same Kitchen. More Profits. Zero Start-Up Fees. Virtual Dining Concepts helps you maximize your existing kitchen to generate extra revenue streams without adding overhead. We offer a variety of fully-branded concepts that are easy to add in any kitchen. We handle the menus, training, marketing & more, so you can focus on your restaurant and brand. When you partner with us all you need to do is execute the product. Our virtual brands are fully tested to ensure highest quality products & packaging, ease of operational implementation & execution, and menu items that are in high consumer demand Start earning more today!
late stageRestaurants
Investor
Apr 2023
Sauce helps restaurants increase profit and grow sales with dynamic pricing. Sauce provides the leading industry tool to variably price restaurant menus to hit business goals. With Sauce, you can quickly and easily implement dynamic pricing strategies, from simple happy hours to data-backed automatic strategies. We understand how difficult it is to build a profitable restaurant, and that most restaurant operators do not have the time and resources to properly leverage their data. We’ve built the industry’s leading pricing solution that allows you to choose and scale expert pricing strategies in just a few clicks. Find out how at the link below.
Investor
Sep 2022
Looma exists to inspire, educate, and humanize the shopping experience. Our first product, Loop™, is an in-store network of screens that play short videos focused on storytelling and education. The content for this platform is powered by our second product, Relay™️, a marketplace of filmmakers and other creators who specialize in point-of-decision content.
Investor
Apr 2022
Bikky is the first Customer Data Platform (CDP) built exclusively for large, multi-unit restaurant brands. By integrating with point-of-sale systems, online ordering providers, payment processors, and loyalty programs, Bikky is the only CDP able to build comprehensive datasets about everything from the performance of menus to the frequency and lifetime value of guests. With the platform, everyone from the C-Suite to the marketing team is empowered to make better decisions about the business and measure if those decisions are contributing positively to the bottom line. Bikky was founded on the belief that restaurants deserve the same access to data as the largest, most sophisticated businesses in the world, and is proud to serve thousands of restaurant locations across the U.S., including major brands like Bojangles, MOD Pizza, Dave’s Hot Chicken, and Long John Silver’s. Bikky is based in New York City and has raised over $15 million in funding to date.
Investor
Feb 2022
89% of consumers say that a car maintenance service that picks up and drops off their car from any place at any time is appealing and 67% say that they would switch to a brand that offers concierge pick up and delivery. Our clients more easily attract and retain great clients while consistently increasing their RO size by 40% or more. HopDrive provides an elegant, turnkey solution that automates the way you move cars for your customers - with total transparency for your clients and limited liability for your organization.
Board Member
Sep 2021
Gigpro is a platform that connects experienced food and beverage workers with Hospitality businesses that need shifts filled on demand, for seasonal labor, or are looking for a modern-day recruitment tool.
Experience · 12 entries
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Investments (7)
Board (1)
2024
Investor
Jul 2024
Same Kitchen. More Profits. Zero Start-Up Fees. Virtual Dining Concepts helps you maximize your existing kitchen to generate extra revenue streams without adding overhead. We offer a variety of fully-branded concepts that are easy to add in any kitchen. We handle the menus, training, marketing & more, so you can focus on your restaurant and brand. When you partner with us all you need to do is execute the product. Our virtual brands are fully tested to ensure highest quality products & packaging, ease of operational implementation & execution, and menu items that are in high consumer demand Start earning more today!
late stageRestaurants
2023
Investor
Apr 2023
Sauce helps restaurants increase profit and grow sales with dynamic pricing. Sauce provides the leading industry tool to variably price restaurant menus to hit business goals. With Sauce, you can quickly and easily implement dynamic pricing strategies, from simple happy hours to data-backed automatic strategies. We understand how difficult it is to build a profitable restaurant, and that most restaurant operators do not have the time and resources to properly leverage their data. We’ve built the industry’s leading pricing solution that allows you to choose and scale expert pricing strategies in just a few clicks. Find out how at the link below.
2022
Limited Partner (Fund 2)
Oct 2022
Front Porch Venture Partners (FPVP) offers a diversified investment across top-tier Venture Capital funds and early stage companies in the Southeast. FPVP’s strategy uses a pooled investment vehicle (or fund) to invest across the Southeast’s best Venture Capital firms, as well as make direct investments in the most promising startups we see through our fund partners and other connections in the regions entrepreneurial ecosystem. This fund allows investors to gain exposure to a broad set of the regions most promising startups through one investment.
Investor
Sep 2022
Looma exists to inspire, educate, and humanize the shopping experience. Our first product, Loop™, is an in-store network of screens that play short videos focused on storytelling and education. The content for this platform is powered by our second product, Relay™️, a marketplace of filmmakers and other creators who specialize in point-of-decision content.
Investor
Apr 2022
Bikky is the first Customer Data Platform (CDP) built exclusively for large, multi-unit restaurant brands. By integrating with point-of-sale systems, online ordering providers, payment processors, and loyalty programs, Bikky is the only CDP able to build comprehensive datasets about everything from the performance of menus to the frequency and lifetime value of guests. With the platform, everyone from the C-Suite to the marketing team is empowered to make better decisions about the business and measure if those decisions are contributing positively to the bottom line. Bikky was founded on the belief that restaurants deserve the same access to data as the largest, most sophisticated businesses in the world, and is proud to serve thousands of restaurant locations across the U.S., including major brands like Bojangles, MOD Pizza, Dave’s Hot Chicken, and Long John Silver’s. Bikky is based in New York City and has raised over $15 million in funding to date.
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