Carla Bourque

3x CEO | PE Value Creation & AI-Native Growth Operator | Mid‑Market B2B SaaS | GTM & M&A | 3B+ in Exit Value

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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CEO and Board Member
Jul 2022
Rebrandly is the easiest way to create, share and manage branded links. We offer companies and individuals the possibility to brand and shorten the links they share using a custom domain name of their choosing. We want to optimize the way people share the information they value. At Rebrandly, we believe that our customers’ brands come first. Behind every click, tap or swipe there’s a link; and we are committed to putting control over those links into our customers’ hands. Rebrandly is trusted by top brands all over the world, including Heineken, Land Rover, Expedia, Harvard and Ernst & Young.
Board Member
2021
AUTOMATE BRAND MANAGEMENT WITH OUTFIT We know organisations struggle to produce enough on-brand content to satisfy their customers and deliver sales. BRAND MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR ENTERPRISE The Outfit platform is a new breed of online brand management. It isn't just a cloud storage solution for your brand assets, it is brand management software that allows anyone in your organisation to use your brand assets to produce marketing and sales collateral. Brand management software to ensure your brand is rigorously controlled but able to be used by anyone, not just a graphic designer. BENEFITS * Strengthen brand integrity: Every piece of collateral, on brand, on time and at scale * Faster to market, again and again: More campaigns launched, with ease of iteration * Reduce production costs: Hours of time saved across the organisation without needing to outsource production * Maximise your existing data​: Eliminate the waste and frustration of long build times and data movement * Empower teams: Empower the whole organisation to create on-brand content * Reduce risk: Your brand in safe hands with approval workflows, clear templates and an audit trail The power of your brand without the effort, because Outfit automates brand management and production at scale. How it works: https://outfit.io/explainer-video
Board Member
Apr 2020
Playvox's powerfully simple workforce engagement management (WEM) solutions transform customer care. We deeply understand that exceptional employee engagement produces extraordinary customer experiences, and we love creating tools that help our customers unlock the full potential in every employee and every interaction. Playvox powers the world's fastest-growing brands. Our agent-empowering suite of workforce management, quality assurance, performance, learning, customer AI, and gamification lives seamlessly in the modern support operations ecosystem with tools like Amazon Connect, Salesforce, Slack, ServiceNow, and Zendesk.
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2025
Operating Advisor
Jun 2025
PeakSpan Capital is a growth equity firm based in New York City and Silicon Valley. Having partnered with over 57 scale-ups and with $2.5B+ in assets under management (AUM), PeakSpan’s mission is to be the partner of choice for growth-stage entrepreneurial teams building category-defining software for business buyers of all sizes. PeakSpan combines deep domain expertise across a select set of sectors with multiple homegrown, proprietary, and patented technology platforms that provide visibility into company and market performance, helping disruptive entrepreneurs drive resilient, risk-adjusted value creation. To learn more about PeakSpan Capital and its portfolio, please visit: www.peakspancapital.com.
2023
Partner and Funding Council Member
2023
Protecting children is at the heart of everything we do. For over 25 years, since the early days of the internet, our job has been to help child victims of sexual abuse by hunting down and removing any online record of the abuse. How we do this Tech-for-good.We build cutting-edge tech tools designed to make it easier to identify and remove online images and videos of child sexual abuse. In short, tech to protect kids. Our team of human analysts. Tech companies and law enforcement worldwide trust the assessments, experience and knowledge of our extraordinary team of people. Working together. With international partners in government, law enforcement, reporting hotlines, charities and the tech community we work to stop illegal images of children being circulated again and again. We share vital information that could lead to the rescue of a child from terrible abuse. IWF Hotline. This gives people a safe and anonymous place to report suspected online images and videos. When we started in 1996, 18 per cent of child sexual abuse imagery online was hosted in the UK. Today, thanks to our Hotline, it’s less than one per cent. We’re proud of that.
2022
CEO and Board Member
Jul 2022
Rebrandly is the easiest way to create, share and manage branded links. We offer companies and individuals the possibility to brand and shorten the links they share using a custom domain name of their choosing. We want to optimize the way people share the information they value. At Rebrandly, we believe that our customers’ brands come first. Behind every click, tap or swipe there’s a link; and we are committed to putting control over those links into our customers’ hands. Rebrandly is trusted by top brands all over the world, including Heineken, Land Rover, Expedia, Harvard and Ernst & Young.
2021
Operating Partner
Jan 2021
Five Elms is a growth investor in software businesses that users love, providing capital and resources to help companies accelerate growth and further cement their role as industry leaders. With $3 billion in assets under management and a global team of over 75 professionals, Five Elms has invested in more than 70 software platforms globally. The firms operational value creation team supports the portfolio, working alongside companies to accelerate growth, build out executive teams, increase customer retention, improve sales & marketing efficiency, upgrade analytical infrastructure, and expand into new markets. For more information, visit fiveelms.com.
Board Member
2021
AUTOMATE BRAND MANAGEMENT WITH OUTFIT We know organisations struggle to produce enough on-brand content to satisfy their customers and deliver sales. BRAND MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR ENTERPRISE The Outfit platform is a new breed of online brand management. It isn't just a cloud storage solution for your brand assets, it is brand management software that allows anyone in your organisation to use your brand assets to produce marketing and sales collateral. Brand management software to ensure your brand is rigorously controlled but able to be used by anyone, not just a graphic designer. BENEFITS * Strengthen brand integrity: Every piece of collateral, on brand, on time and at scale * Faster to market, again and again: More campaigns launched, with ease of iteration * Reduce production costs: Hours of time saved across the organisation without needing to outsource production * Maximise your existing data​: Eliminate the waste and frustration of long build times and data movement * Empower teams: Empower the whole organisation to create on-brand content * Reduce risk: Your brand in safe hands with approval workflows, clear templates and an audit trail The power of your brand without the effort, because Outfit automates brand management and production at scale. How it works: https://outfit.io/explainer-video
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