Daniel Fohrman

Wander is the leading travel marketplace for high-quality vacation homes, combining hotel-grade amenities, inspiring views, pristine cleaning and 24/7 concierge service – earning best-in-category guest satisfaction across thousands of locations from coast to coast. Wander Sites now extends this platform to property managers globally, empowering them with proven direct booking technology to own their brand, bookings and guests. With this new product, Wander moves beyond the top 1% of homes to power the next generation of the vacation-rental industry.

The Moon Hotel Company. GRU builds durable space habitats so humans can live on the Moon and Mars. Our first missions will mine lunar regolith to construct a permanent habitat on the moon for commercial space tourism — a hotel on the moon. We don’t stop at Moon hotels. GRU’s long-term plan: 1. Build the first hotel on the Moon. GRU solves off‑world surface habitation. 2. Build America’s first Moon base: roads, mass drivers, warehouses, and physical infrastructure. 3. Repeat on Mars and build the first cities there. 4. Own property on the Moon and Mars as these economies grow. 5. Reinvest profits into resource utilization systems on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and beyond—reaching our final form: Galactic Resource Utilization.

Wander is the leading travel marketplace for high-quality vacation homes, combining hotel-grade amenities, inspiring views, pristine cleaning and 24/7 concierge service – earning best-in-category guest satisfaction across thousands of locations from coast to coast. Wander Sites now extends this platform to property managers globally, empowering them with proven direct booking technology to own their brand, bookings and guests. With this new product, Wander moves beyond the top 1% of homes to power the next generation of the vacation-rental industry.

Chicago Early Growth Ventures (CEGV) invests in early-stage startup companies, with a particular focus on Chicago-based entities. We will consider investments in almost any sector and demographic, but we give preference to companies based in Chicago or with founders who are students or alumni of Chicago-based higher education institutions (Northwestern, University of Chicago, Loyola, etc.) Though investment is our primary purpose, we also seek to build and develop relationships among our investors, other investor organizations, and with founders, entrepreneurs and educational institutions in Chicago.

Congress Avenue Ventures is a venture capital fund for alumni of UT Austin that invests in companies with a UT Austin connection. We are part of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture fund for individuals and the #1 most active venture firm in the US and #3 globally (PitchBook 2022). Follow Congress Avenue Ventures for content at the intersection of our shared alma mater, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. We are private, for-profit, and not affiliated with or sanctioned by the university.

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