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Investor in BabyQuip
Jan 2020
BabyQuip helps families "Pack Light. Travel Happy" to over 2000 locations in the US, Canada, Mexico and Caribbean; Australia and New Zealand, and select European locations. Powered by a trusted community of nearly 3000 trained and insured Quality Providers, BabyQuip delivers clean, quality baby gear including cribs, car seats, strollers, and other essentials to make family travel more enjoyable and convenient.
BabyQuip also empowers Quality Providers with the opportunity to build their own baby gear rental or cleaning business through its managed marketplace.
Demand is strong: In just over 7 years, we’ve served nearly 300k orders and have emerged as far and away leading national and now international brand.
CEO, Fran Maier, is a super founder, best known for co-founding/launching/first GM of Match.com and Founder of TRUSTe (now TrustArc).
Additional highlights:
Customers love BabyQuip, with 94 (World Class!) NPS Score
Distribution and affiliate relationships in place with Avant Stay, Curator Hotels, Guesty among others.
Industry leading Trust and Safety Program, including Liability Insurance which provides coverage to our Quality Provider community as well as Damage Waiver, and car seat replacement program.
Award GoodHousekeeping "Best in Travel Award," December, 2022
The company was featured on Shark Tank on March 6, 2020.
www.babyquip.com
www.cleaning.babyquip.com
Investor in Metadata.io
Jan 2019
B2B marketers use Metadata’s Marketing OS to drive more revenue without all the manual and repetitive work.
From running paid campaigns to personalizing web experiences to optimizing everything to revenue – Metadata automates all of this.
This means less time spent on low-value tasks and more time spent on strategy, creativity, and driving revenue.
Investor in Inside
Aug 2018
Executive briefings of the news you need. Join the waitlist for product launch mid-2024: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF3zupwgUiJ90O2dy5IXdCb6ZaYT28w7JCgpcUMi5z912tvA/viewform
Founder: Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis co-founded and was the CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a network of popular weblogs that was sold to AOL in November 2005. Upon joining AOL, he was appointed senior vice president. In addition, he was named general manager of AOL’s Netscape and was responsible for the July 2006 relaunch of the iconic browser as a social bookmarking news site.
Investors include: Sequoia Capital, CBS, Elon Musk, Matt Coffin, Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus and Fred Wilson.
Investor, SparkPlug
Jan 1962
In complex CPG verticals like beauty, electronics, and outdoor gear, customers rely on the product recommendation of point-of-purchase experts up to 92% of the time. SparkPlug allows brands to directly reward these key influencers for every sale they generate with cash via gamified commissions, contests, and goals. We drive more revenue for brands, improve employee performance for retailers, and empower frontline workers across the world with fair compensation and economic equality, all based on the sales revenue they generate each day.
Investor, BrickData
Jan 1962
Brickdata is an industry-focus solution brand of PropTech Solutions Limited. It enables positive change in the property and facility management, construction industries and smart city applications. We enable industry decision makers to deliver successful outcomes by incorporating realtime data, Artificial Intelligence, and automation into their operations.
In recent years, the property and facility management, construction industries and smart city applications have been acknowledged the importance of adopting new operational technology, and the positive impacts this can have on an organization. Technology has remained a hot topic in the industry for some time, and there are numerous examples of AI being utilized in areas such as predictive maintenance. Harnessing data to elevate customer insights will also help management make more informed, and timely decisions.
With our expertise in information technology, property and facility management, and construction, our purpose is to enable positive change in the industry. We’re here to help our clients harness digital innovation and use it to streamline and evolve their operations. We strongly believe a business’s ability to adapt to these transformative technologies and implement a holistic strategy will be crucial to its future success.
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2023
Head of Acquisition (Demand Generation, Field Marketing, Partners)
Oct 2023
Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single global solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster. With offices around the world, Adyen works with the likes of Meta, Uber, H&M, eBay, and Microsoft.
For support visit: https://support.adyen.com
2022
Global VP Marketing, Campaigns, Partners and Field Marketing
2022
Genesys empowers organizations of all sizes to improve loyalty and business outcomes by creating the best experiences for their customers and employees. Through Genesys Cloud, the AI-Powered Experience Orchestration platform, organizations can accelerate growth by delivering empathetic, personalized experiences at scale to drive customer loyalty, workforce engagement, efficiency and operational improvements. Visit www.genesys.com.
2020
Investor in BabyQuip
Jan 2020
BabyQuip helps families "Pack Light. Travel Happy" to over 2000 locations in the US, Canada, Mexico and Caribbean; Australia and New Zealand, and select European locations. Powered by a trusted community of nearly 3000 trained and insured Quality Providers, BabyQuip delivers clean, quality baby gear including cribs, car seats, strollers, and other essentials to make family travel more enjoyable and convenient.
BabyQuip also empowers Quality Providers with the opportunity to build their own baby gear rental or cleaning business through its managed marketplace.
Demand is strong: In just over 7 years, we’ve served nearly 300k orders and have emerged as far and away leading national and now international brand.
CEO, Fran Maier, is a super founder, best known for co-founding/launching/first GM of Match.com and Founder of TRUSTe (now TrustArc).
Additional highlights:
Customers love BabyQuip, with 94 (World Class!) NPS Score
Distribution and affiliate relationships in place with Avant Stay, Curator Hotels, Guesty among others.
Industry leading Trust and Safety Program, including Liability Insurance which provides coverage to our Quality Provider community as well as Damage Waiver, and car seat replacement program.
Award GoodHousekeeping "Best in Travel Award," December, 2022
The company was featured on Shark Tank on March 6, 2020.
www.babyquip.com
www.cleaning.babyquip.com
2019
Investor in Metadata.io
Jan 2019
B2B marketers use Metadata’s Marketing OS to drive more revenue without all the manual and repetitive work.
From running paid campaigns to personalizing web experiences to optimizing everything to revenue – Metadata automates all of this.
This means less time spent on low-value tasks and more time spent on strategy, creativity, and driving revenue.
2018
Investor in Inside
Aug 2018
Executive briefings of the news you need. Join the waitlist for product launch mid-2024: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF3zupwgUiJ90O2dy5IXdCb6ZaYT28w7JCgpcUMi5z912tvA/viewform
Founder: Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis co-founded and was the CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a network of popular weblogs that was sold to AOL in November 2005. Upon joining AOL, he was appointed senior vice president. In addition, he was named general manager of AOL’s Netscape and was responsible for the July 2006 relaunch of the iconic browser as a social bookmarking news site.
Investors include: Sequoia Capital, CBS, Elon Musk, Matt Coffin, Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus and Fred Wilson.
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