Christopher Bledsoe

Co-Founder, Ollie (ollie.co) & Bedvetter.com

📍 Newport Beach, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2014
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Jun 2014
Ruby’s Naturals produces wholesome foods under the Ruby Rockets brand, bringing a transformative perspective to the snack and grab-and-go food categories for kids and families. Launched with the Ruby Rockets frozen pops product line, our company focuses on a better-for-you approach to snacking that enhances our diet and, more importantly, our general wellbeing. Snacks are an important part of our intimate relationship with food, so they should offer benefits that go beyond basic sustenance. Our mission is to make these kinds of healthy snacks available and accessible, enabling our consumers to feel empowered by their snack choice. Fundamental in realizing that mission, we source ingredients from agriculture practices that are responsible, ethical, and sustainable. Among other reasons, this attention to environmental stewardship has qualified us to become a certified B Corp, which includes us in a community of businesses that perform social and environmental good. We also ensure that our products are completely Non-GMO, organic when possible, and free of added refined sugars that are nearly ubiquitous in the conventional snack category, knowing such sugars do little to supplement our diets. Rather, we’re continuously innovating new blends of fruits and vegetables, from exotic novelties to domestic staples, that taste amazing and that fortify our health and our diets. Our products have been featured on the Today Show and in Oprah, Forbes, Parents, Food & Nutrition, Gourmet News, and Health Magazines for our innovative, healthy snacks. Additionally, we’ve been honored to receive several recent accolades, including Supply Side’s Editor’s Choice Award for Functional Foods, American Masters of Taste Award of Excellence, and a Nexty Award, all while being Ashley Koff Approved.
Co-Founder & Board Member
Mar 2011
Ollie is a leading micro-housing and coliving platform. In partnership with institutional real estate investors and developers, Ollie revolutionizes the living experience for urban renters through an “all inclusive coliving” model that combines thoughtfully appointed furnished micro-studios and shared suites with extraordinary lifestyle-relevant services, abundant amenities and unique community engagement activities. For more information visit www.ollie.co Why Partner With Ollie? Performance Ollie’s density driven coliving model optimizes financial returns on a $/sqft basis relative to traditional multi-family. Our win-win density model establishes a lower price-point for our tenants while delivering the highest and best use for your asset. Brand Strength Ollie is the pre-eminent coliving brand. Our unique interior design identity, values based community programming, coliving household technology and excellence in hospitality service, deliver a brand experience that will enhance your asset. Flexibility Our floor plans are adaptable. During architectural feasibility, we ensure our design is readily convertible to a conventional condominium or multifamily plan, preserving a future buyer’s optionality. Institutional Scope As the coliving industry’s premier operator of large scale institutional grade assets, Ollie-flagged projects have raised hundreds of millions in equity and debt financing at highly competitive rates.
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2020
Co-Founder
Apr 2020
Dandi is a co-living operator with a focus on vibrant, up-and-coming neighbourhood in London. The company provides design-led studio apartments that deliver a lifestyle at your doorstep. We develop and manage institutional scale, multifamily and build-to-rent assets with a philosophy that is design-forward, hospitality oriented, community-minded and tech-enabled. The resident experience at Dandi begins with the studios, where luxury meets affordability, form meets function, and design meets craftsmanship, all converging via a proprietary system of interoperable transforming furniture pieces made by us in London in our vertically integrated factory: Dandi Dynamic Furnishings (est. 2005). Uncompromisingly, our studios deliver five distinct room configurations in one fully autonomous, compact living space — sleep, workout, work-study, dine and unwind. Unique within co-living, every Dandi studio is equipped with its own private ensuite kitchen and bathroom. Beyond the four walls of our Designed-led Studios, Dandi residents enjoy unfettered access to on-site amenities from fully equipped co-working areas, hot desks, and meeting rooms to cinemas, serviced rooftop bars, casual dining, fitness classes, and more. Behind the scenes, Dandi’s team of expertly trained hospitality staff is committed to delivering a five-star hotel-like living experience. Food and beverage service are offered in communal member spaces. The Dandi community is a mosaic strengthened by its diversity. Residents of all backgrounds are encouraged to contribute to the warm and welcoming, active, and socially conscious Dandi community with full access to a complete calendar of social events, creative workshops, and unique citywide experiences organised by Dandi’s dedicated community managers.
2014
Board Member
Jun 2014
Ruby’s Naturals produces wholesome foods under the Ruby Rockets brand, bringing a transformative perspective to the snack and grab-and-go food categories for kids and families. Launched with the Ruby Rockets frozen pops product line, our company focuses on a better-for-you approach to snacking that enhances our diet and, more importantly, our general wellbeing. Snacks are an important part of our intimate relationship with food, so they should offer benefits that go beyond basic sustenance. Our mission is to make these kinds of healthy snacks available and accessible, enabling our consumers to feel empowered by their snack choice. Fundamental in realizing that mission, we source ingredients from agriculture practices that are responsible, ethical, and sustainable. Among other reasons, this attention to environmental stewardship has qualified us to become a certified B Corp, which includes us in a community of businesses that perform social and environmental good. We also ensure that our products are completely Non-GMO, organic when possible, and free of added refined sugars that are nearly ubiquitous in the conventional snack category, knowing such sugars do little to supplement our diets. Rather, we’re continuously innovating new blends of fruits and vegetables, from exotic novelties to domestic staples, that taste amazing and that fortify our health and our diets. Our products have been featured on the Today Show and in Oprah, Forbes, Parents, Food & Nutrition, Gourmet News, and Health Magazines for our innovative, healthy snacks. Additionally, we’ve been honored to receive several recent accolades, including Supply Side’s Editor’s Choice Award for Functional Foods, American Masters of Taste Award of Excellence, and a Nexty Award, all while being Ashley Koff Approved.
2011
Co-Founder and CEO
Mar 2011
Ollie is a leading micro-housing and coliving platform. In partnership with institutional real estate investors and developers, Ollie revolutionizes the living experience for urban renters through an “all inclusive coliving” model that combines thoughtfully appointed furnished micro-studios and shared suites with extraordinary lifestyle-relevant services, abundant amenities and unique community engagement activities. For more information visit www.ollie.co Why Partner With Ollie? Performance Ollie’s density driven coliving model optimizes financial returns on a $/sqft basis relative to traditional multi-family. Our win-win density model establishes a lower price-point for our tenants while delivering the highest and best use for your asset. Brand Strength Ollie is the pre-eminent coliving brand. Our unique interior design identity, values based community programming, coliving household technology and excellence in hospitality service, deliver a brand experience that will enhance your asset. Flexibility Our floor plans are adaptable. During architectural feasibility, we ensure our design is readily convertible to a conventional condominium or multifamily plan, preserving a future buyer’s optionality. Institutional Scope As the coliving industry’s premier operator of large scale institutional grade assets, Ollie-flagged projects have raised hundreds of millions in equity and debt financing at highly competitive rates.
mid stageReal Estate
Co-Founder & Board Member
Mar 2011
Ollie is a leading micro-housing and coliving platform. In partnership with institutional real estate investors and developers, Ollie revolutionizes the living experience for urban renters through an “all inclusive coliving” model that combines thoughtfully appointed furnished micro-studios and shared suites with extraordinary lifestyle-relevant services, abundant amenities and unique community engagement activities. For more information visit www.ollie.co Why Partner With Ollie? Performance Ollie’s density driven coliving model optimizes financial returns on a $/sqft basis relative to traditional multi-family. Our win-win density model establishes a lower price-point for our tenants while delivering the highest and best use for your asset. Brand Strength Ollie is the pre-eminent coliving brand. Our unique interior design identity, values based community programming, coliving household technology and excellence in hospitality service, deliver a brand experience that will enhance your asset. Flexibility Our floor plans are adaptable. During architectural feasibility, we ensure our design is readily convertible to a conventional condominium or multifamily plan, preserving a future buyer’s optionality. Institutional Scope As the coliving industry’s premier operator of large scale institutional grade assets, Ollie-flagged projects have raised hundreds of millions in equity and debt financing at highly competitive rates.
mid stageReal Estate
2007
Vice President, Equity Research - Senior Agribusiness Analyst
Dec 2007
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (Pink Sheets: LEHMQ, former NYSE ticker symbol LEH) (pronounced /ˈliːmən/) was a global financial-services firm which, until declaring bankruptcy in 2008, participated in business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales, research and trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking. It was a primary dealer in the U.S. Treasury securities market. Its primary subsidiaries included Lehman Brothers Inc., Neuberger Berman Inc., Aurora Loan Services, Inc., SIB Mortgage Corporation, Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB, Eagle Energy Partners, and the Crossroads Group. The firms worldwide headquarters were in New York City, with regional headquarters in London and Tokyo, as well as offices located throughout the world.
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