Crom Carmichael

Owner of Giants of Political Thought - audio programs

📍 Nashville, Tennessee, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 24 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2014
Angel investor🌍 United States
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Investor
2014
SolPad was formed in 2012 and is the designer and manufacturer of the SolPad series of personal energy products. With SolPad, our mission has always been to disrupt the conventional sustainable energy landscape by delivering the world’s first 100% fully integrated, user-friendly solar energy products that provide the best, most powerful and most cost-effective green energy solutions for the sustainable smart home and off-grid power environments. SolPad’s series of products are designed to empower consumers, giving them the ability to choose energy reliance on clean power to reduce their carbon footprint. SolPad is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Be the first to find out the latest developments from SolPad at facebook.com/SolPadEnergy, on Twitter @SolPadEnergy and Instagram @SolPad. Visit www.SolPad.com for full product details.
Founding Investor
2007
Seraph Group is an early-stage venture firm that offers investors a diversified portfolio of technology startups, and entrepreneurs between $100K to $2M in seed and early stage capital. Seraph Group brings together successful individuals who share a passion for investing in technology startups. Opportunists join Seraph for a managed and curated portfolio of 20+ companies, for the ability to coinvest on a deal-by-deal basis, and for the opportunity to work with entrepreneurs.
Board Member
2007
TrackPoint Systems, LLC provides advanced asset management and custom-engineered solutions to companies in the transportation, utility, construction, oilfield and government sectors. Checkpoints patented solar-powered Tr/IPS™ product has revolutionized untethered asset management by providing its customers with real-time, actionable data that includes valuable positioning and sensory information to the right place at the right time. We have built TrackPoint Systems to deliver the information and technology needs that are unique to Asset Management and Trailer Tracking: · Solar Panel Tr/IPS™ G3 MCU provides for the lowest cost of ownership of any full-featured untethered trailer tracking device. · Easy installation, with no holes to cut and no wires run, just easy 15 minute peel and stick application · Wireless sensory data flow – temperature sensors for reefer units, door sensors to protect cargo, cargo sensors for detection of trailer utilization and liquid sensors for tankers to report real-time data · Secure, interoperable networks that enable the exchange of information among your team. · Seamless roaming in Mexico and Canada that allows for hundreds of messages. TrackPoint Systems can help to lower your insurance premiums, reduce your loss runs, customer disruptions and claims paid. Call now, and start saving real dollars, (817) 532-0836 or email us at sales@trackpointsystems.com . TrackPoint Systems…Connected....even when you're not!
Board Member
2006
Confirmation, part of Thomson Reuters, is the digital platform and global network trusted by audit firms, banks, law firms, and credit managers to quickly and securely verify financial data. Founded in 2000, we invented electronic confirmations and have reshaped and modernized the audit confirmation process. Today, Confirmation helps nearly 1.5 million users across 170 countries confirm more than $1 trillion in financial data every year. Our patented service minimizes fraud and brings efficiency to the confirmation process, plus our guaranteed in-network responses and global team of 200 people in 10 offices worldwide ensure a premium service for our clients.
Board Member
2006
An academically focused preschool for ages 6 weeks to 5 years. Since opening our first school in 2005, The Gardner School has grown to 40+ locations nationwide. Our purpose remains the same: to nurture children’s growth, curiosity, and love of learning in safe, inspiring environments. That mission starts with our team. We support teachers and staff with training, collaboration, and a positive workplace so they can create meaningful experiences for every child. Families see more than a preschool, they see a trusted commitment to early learning and community, brought to life each day by our Team Members.
Investor and Fundraiser
2005
Cloud video surveillance and access control.
Board Member
2005
Kasasa® is an award-winning financial technology and marketing services company that is letting the world know about the good community banks and credit unions do daily. Our mission: to help local banks and credit unions compete for their rightful share of the market against even the largest banks. As the innovative leader in branded, community-powered banking products proven to drive profit and growth for community financial institutions, Kasasa is helping community institutions thrive even as the industry landscape presents new challenges and competitors. The Kasasa suite provides a comprehensive strategy that integrates breakthrough products with world-class marketing and unprecedented access to training, compliance, research, support resources, and customized consulting. Kasasa complements an institution’s existing brand, enhancing its unique identity and local service advantage. Research consistently shows Americans prefer to bank locally but choose megabanks believing only megabanks have the resources to deliver the world-class products they desire. The full-circle Kasasa approach enables local institutions to leverage the power of a national brand. It gives consumers a reason to believe a local institution has the resources to deliver megabank-caliber products. Learn more at Kasasa.com.
Investor and Board Member
2005
Vaco Holdings is a leading provider of consulting, managed services and talent solutions. As a global professional services organization, Vaco Holdings is dedicated to supporting and transforming organizations in the core areas of accounting, finance, technology and digital. With a team of over 10,000, operating in more than 100 countries, Vaco Holdings provides business-critical services to a diverse and demanding client base through a distinct portfolio of brands: Vaco specializes in talent solutions, managed services and executive search; MorganFranklin Consulting specializes in finance, technology and business services; Pivot Point Consulting is a Best in KLAS healthcare IT consulting leader; Focus Search Partners specializes in retained and interim executive search services; and BUILT specializes in digital services focused on software, cloud, data and AI solutions. In addition to being named to Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest-growing private companies for the past 17 years, Vaco was named to Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Remote Work in 2023.
Board Member
2003
3SAE Technologies Inc. (www.3SAE.com), headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee provides advanced fiber optic fusion splicing and glass processing solutions to companies around the world. We develop and market new fiber optic tools and technologies for optical fiber applications. The company's patented Wide Area Plasma Technology, better known as the "Ring of Fire"​ has vastly improved optical fiber R&D and manufacturing capabilities. Specific advancements have been made in the large diameter splicing arena including adiabatic tapering, MFA fabrication, Bundling/Pump combining, Photonic Crystal Fiber splicing, fiber stripping, cleaving and plasma cleaning.
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2014
Investor
2014
SolPad was formed in 2012 and is the designer and manufacturer of the SolPad series of personal energy products. With SolPad, our mission has always been to disrupt the conventional sustainable energy landscape by delivering the world’s first 100% fully integrated, user-friendly solar energy products that provide the best, most powerful and most cost-effective green energy solutions for the sustainable smart home and off-grid power environments. SolPad’s series of products are designed to empower consumers, giving them the ability to choose energy reliance on clean power to reduce their carbon footprint. SolPad is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Be the first to find out the latest developments from SolPad at facebook.com/SolPadEnergy, on Twitter @SolPadEnergy and Instagram @SolPad. Visit www.SolPad.com for full product details.
2008
Concensus Point
Board Member
2008
2007
Founding Investor
2007
Seraph Group is an early-stage venture firm that offers investors a diversified portfolio of technology startups, and entrepreneurs between $100K to $2M in seed and early stage capital. Seraph Group brings together successful individuals who share a passion for investing in technology startups. Opportunists join Seraph for a managed and curated portfolio of 20+ companies, for the ability to coinvest on a deal-by-deal basis, and for the opportunity to work with entrepreneurs.
Board Member
2007
TrackPoint Systems, LLC provides advanced asset management and custom-engineered solutions to companies in the transportation, utility, construction, oilfield and government sectors. Checkpoints patented solar-powered Tr/IPS™ product has revolutionized untethered asset management by providing its customers with real-time, actionable data that includes valuable positioning and sensory information to the right place at the right time. We have built TrackPoint Systems to deliver the information and technology needs that are unique to Asset Management and Trailer Tracking: · Solar Panel Tr/IPS™ G3 MCU provides for the lowest cost of ownership of any full-featured untethered trailer tracking device. · Easy installation, with no holes to cut and no wires run, just easy 15 minute peel and stick application · Wireless sensory data flow – temperature sensors for reefer units, door sensors to protect cargo, cargo sensors for detection of trailer utilization and liquid sensors for tankers to report real-time data · Secure, interoperable networks that enable the exchange of information among your team. · Seamless roaming in Mexico and Canada that allows for hundreds of messages. TrackPoint Systems can help to lower your insurance premiums, reduce your loss runs, customer disruptions and claims paid. Call now, and start saving real dollars, (817) 532-0836 or email us at sales@trackpointsystems.com . TrackPoint Systems…Connected....even when you're not!
2006
Board Member
2006
Confirmation, part of Thomson Reuters, is the digital platform and global network trusted by audit firms, banks, law firms, and credit managers to quickly and securely verify financial data. Founded in 2000, we invented electronic confirmations and have reshaped and modernized the audit confirmation process. Today, Confirmation helps nearly 1.5 million users across 170 countries confirm more than $1 trillion in financial data every year. Our patented service minimizes fraud and brings efficiency to the confirmation process, plus our guaranteed in-network responses and global team of 200 people in 10 offices worldwide ensure a premium service for our clients.
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