Brett Simpson

Redefining early stage investing in under served venture capital markets. We believe in investing in highly ethical, smart-working listeners who seek committed partners to help them build their businesses. We are most often part of the first “organized money” invested in companies. We expect our companies to have customers beyond the founders’ uncle or their best friends. As early-stage investors, we love to make good ideas into great companies. The company we invest in on Day 1 will likely look very different on Day 2. We’re looking for great entrepreneurs, not sectors. We invest in companies based in the Mountain West and Midwest with select engagements in the Pacific Northwest and California. Our family legacy includes standing up retail and media ventures, because in 1895 Sears and CBS were the ventures of the day...yes, we go back that far. Our core team was motivated to be the ones that bring the tradition of standing up the new industries of the day. Weve now expanded our reach to include outside LPs, new team members, and a broad portfolio of successful companies.

Novel leverages real-time data and AI to provide analytics, fundraising strategy, and non-dilutive capital to B2B SaaS & tech companies. With a commitment to simplicity, directness, and transparency, Novel is revolutionizing the SaaS landscape, one Founder at a time.

Redefining early stage investing in under served venture capital markets. We believe in investing in highly ethical, smart-working listeners who seek committed partners to help them build their businesses. We are most often part of the first “organized money” invested in companies. We expect our companies to have customers beyond the founders’ uncle or their best friends. As early-stage investors, we love to make good ideas into great companies. The company we invest in on Day 1 will likely look very different on Day 2. We’re looking for great entrepreneurs, not sectors. We invest in companies based in the Mountain West and Midwest with select engagements in the Pacific Northwest and California. Our family legacy includes standing up retail and media ventures, because in 1895 Sears and CBS were the ventures of the day...yes, we go back that far. Our core team was motivated to be the ones that bring the tradition of standing up the new industries of the day. Weve now expanded our reach to include outside LPs, new team members, and a broad portfolio of successful companies.

Novel leverages real-time data and AI to provide analytics, fundraising strategy, and non-dilutive capital to B2B SaaS & tech companies. With a commitment to simplicity, directness, and transparency, Novel is revolutionizing the SaaS landscape, one Founder at a time.

Elevate Simply helps senior lead teams collaborate more effectively by using analytics to enhance decision-making and increase the pace of organizational progress. We enable senior lead teams to navigate change and control business trajectory through strategic insights and alignment. Clients engage us for our proprietary analyzer tools, ALIGNWELL, PERFORMWELL and Pathway 2 Performance (P2P), as well as our advisory services related to strategy, analytics, delivery and custom assessments. ALIGNWELL is a C-suite alignment analyzer tool that gives senior leaders insights and an alignment opportunity roadmap around purpose, priorities, opportunities, customers, competitors & 16 key functional areas. ALIGNWELL indexes performance every six months, with customized follow-on programming available. PERFORMWELL is a corporate performance dissection tool based on our "Intersections of Performance" framework. Its an anonymous, 7-10 minute, A / B answer survey with output that outlines an organizations paths to performance from the strategy side was well as the execution side, specifically highlighting which paths are healthy and which are broken. PATHWAY 2 PERFORMANCE (TM), P2P, is our proprietary engagement tool that measures engagement within teams. It identifies priorities, strengths and areas for development at the individual, team and organizational levels as well as fit, commitment and satisfaction measures for each team member. P2P includes an algorithm that baselines engagement scores for the individual, team and institution, allowing for regular benchmarking over time. We know that delivery leaders are outcome-focused, but not always enabled. We de-risk the execution of strategic initiatives in environments of uncertainty and competing priorities. We work with leaders in companies from the Fortune 500 to start-ups, non-profit organizations, higher education institutions as well as government entities and municipalities. EVALUATE | CALIBRATE | ELEVATE

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. When engaging with Accenture, we encourage everyone to: - Use common courtesy and be respectful of others. - Create your own original content and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent. - Never repost someone elses copyrighted work, unless you have permission. - Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts we deem to be: - Profane, obscene, inappropriate, offensive, abusive material. - Spam, repeated comments and commercial messages and personal advertisements. - Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. - Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization. - False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.