Darren Kelly

Entrepreneur with multiple exits. Matches buyers and sellers of data for securities trading, risk analysis & AI model training.

📍 Boulder, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States
12
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Portfolio

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Investor
Nov 2017
Secure and simple gift card and coupon wallet provider. Our mission is to make finding the freshest deals from your local businesses as easy as possible. Our dynamic deal finder platform lets small businesses create time sensitive deals that local customers can easily find and buy directly. Users can find a deal, snap a photo of a merchants unique QR transaction code, and pay directly. No hardware to integrate, no cards to swipe or carry, and no coupons to print.
Angel Investor
Mar 2017
Founded in 2015 by former Google leaders, Boulder, CO based Arryved, Inc. is a point-of-service based software company specializing in the craft food and beverage service industry: breweries, brewpubs, pizzerias, cideries, entertainment venues, distilleries, wineries, and non-brewery taprooms. In five short years we’ve grown from being an idea on a taproom coaster, to a revered platform serving hundreds of thriving businesses. We’re a team of tech geeks with relentless passion for, and extensive experience in, the craft food and beverage industry as both employees and consumers. Our goal is simple: deliver a flexible, reliable, team-centric platform that puts service first in every way. Remove the archaic Point-of-sale terminal and integrate a mobile POS with contactless payments and ordering, ecommerce, state of the art data and reporting, and excellent customer support with simple, reliable pricing. Currently Arryved boasts a retention rate of 95.5 percent and the highly competitive Net Promoter Score of 88. For more information, business owners and managers should visit www.Arryved.com. Looking for a job in an extremely awesome space? Check out open positions at https://www.arryved.com/career-opportunities.
Angel Investor
Feb 2017
Silvernest is creating a more modern, well-matched generation of roommates. The result? Extra income, expanded community, and Home Sweet Shared Home®. Silvernest is an online homesharing platform that pairs homeowners with compatible housemates and gives them everything they need to create a Home Sweet Shared Home. Homesharing through Silvernest helps homeowners earn extra income (about $10,000 a year) and remain in their homes longer. Renters pay far less than market rent, saving an average $9,000 per year. Both enjoy companionship and the efficiencies that come with sharing a space. Opening your home to a compatible housemate can change your life. Learn more at www.silvernest.com. Silvernest: Share your home. Share your story.
Angel Investor
Nov 2015
Clever Endeavour Games is a game development studio that aims to bring people together through creative play. Based in Montréal, Canada, we released the multiplayer party hit Ultimate Chicken Horse in 2016 on Steam. The game has been receiving updates over the years, and the community is still going strong, but after some large organizational changes we're focusing our development efforts on new initiatives for the existing project and new projects as well.
early stageComputer Games
Angel Investor
Jun 2015
Visit our website to Reserve your Spot for our upcoming webinar. Your key business objectives cannot be achieved without the focused and synchronized work of your team members. RoundPegg unleashes your organization’s true business potential using culture science to galvanize your workforce. Culture science is quantifying how things really get done within each organization's unique culture. By aggregating the personal values of everyone in a company, RoundPegg is able to provide data-driven culture insights that inform strategy, while delivering customized tactics to hire, develop and engage employees in ways that are consistent with each organization’s culture. By understanding what motivates your workforce, the RoundPegg software platform is able to help you accomplish your goals - whether they be driving innovation, boosting revenue, increasing engagement, changing culture or retaining your top performers.
Angel Investor
Dec 2014
Workbright is an HR platform that accelerates the hiring process for businesses that refuse to be slowed down. We get people to work faster with easy, accessible, and frictionless hiring. We're also a Certified B-Corp and fully remote with an awesome team spread across the globe. We offer employee Onboarding, Remote I-9, EVerify, ATS and much much more. If you are looking for an innovative best in class product with access to first rate customer support then please reach out!
Angel Investor
Oct 2012
Founded in 2011, Dabble is a community marketplace for affordable, in-person classes in communities throughout the U.S. Dabble fosters life-long learning in a social atmosphere without breaking the bank. Through our community marketplace, Dabble makes it easy for people to list classes by facilitating the transaction and providing a market of curious learners. Class topics include cooking, woodworking, arts & crafts, knife throwing, wine tasting, whitewater rafting, yoga, business, fitness and much more! Users are encouraged to stretch their imagination in regards to the limitless possibilities for dabbling. Teachers include passionate experts and businesses, and for them, Dabble serves as a lead generation vehicle, additional income stream, and creative outlet. Dabble also offers local businesses the opportunity to host classes that are relevant to them, increasing exposure and driving incremental business. The process for submitting a class occurs online, and anyone is invited to teach. www.dabble.co
Angel Investor
Oct 2012
The Kindara Fertility App for iPhone and Android has been ranked #1 on the App Store Medical chart and users personal data tracking and analysis to help women get pregnant faster, avoid pregnancy naturally or better understand their cycles. Kindara is owned by Prima-Temp, a chronobiology company that makes connected devices and applications to help women manage their reproductive health.
Board Advisor and Investor
Apr 2012
We are a chain of 16 medical centres within Nairobi, Kiambu and Kajiado counties offering affordable, high-quality healthcare that allows you to live life to the full. We exist to care deeply about our patients’ lives: it’s the Penda Way.
Experience · 14 entries
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2019
247 Data Knowledge
Co-Founder
Dec 2019
2017
Investor
Nov 2017
Secure and simple gift card and coupon wallet provider. Our mission is to make finding the freshest deals from your local businesses as easy as possible. Our dynamic deal finder platform lets small businesses create time sensitive deals that local customers can easily find and buy directly. Users can find a deal, snap a photo of a merchants unique QR transaction code, and pay directly. No hardware to integrate, no cards to swipe or carry, and no coupons to print.
Angel Investor
Mar 2017
Founded in 2015 by former Google leaders, Boulder, CO based Arryved, Inc. is a point-of-service based software company specializing in the craft food and beverage service industry: breweries, brewpubs, pizzerias, cideries, entertainment venues, distilleries, wineries, and non-brewery taprooms. In five short years we’ve grown from being an idea on a taproom coaster, to a revered platform serving hundreds of thriving businesses. We’re a team of tech geeks with relentless passion for, and extensive experience in, the craft food and beverage industry as both employees and consumers. Our goal is simple: deliver a flexible, reliable, team-centric platform that puts service first in every way. Remove the archaic Point-of-sale terminal and integrate a mobile POS with contactless payments and ordering, ecommerce, state of the art data and reporting, and excellent customer support with simple, reliable pricing. Currently Arryved boasts a retention rate of 95.5 percent and the highly competitive Net Promoter Score of 88. For more information, business owners and managers should visit www.Arryved.com. Looking for a job in an extremely awesome space? Check out open positions at https://www.arryved.com/career-opportunities.
Angel Investor
Feb 2017
Silvernest is creating a more modern, well-matched generation of roommates. The result? Extra income, expanded community, and Home Sweet Shared Home®. Silvernest is an online homesharing platform that pairs homeowners with compatible housemates and gives them everything they need to create a Home Sweet Shared Home. Homesharing through Silvernest helps homeowners earn extra income (about $10,000 a year) and remain in their homes longer. Renters pay far less than market rent, saving an average $9,000 per year. Both enjoy companionship and the efficiencies that come with sharing a space. Opening your home to a compatible housemate can change your life. Learn more at www.silvernest.com. Silvernest: Share your home. Share your story.
2015
Angel Investor
Nov 2015
Clever Endeavour Games is a game development studio that aims to bring people together through creative play. Based in Montréal, Canada, we released the multiplayer party hit Ultimate Chicken Horse in 2016 on Steam. The game has been receiving updates over the years, and the community is still going strong, but after some large organizational changes we're focusing our development efforts on new initiatives for the existing project and new projects as well.
early stageComputer Games
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