Derek Callow

CEO @Swimply | ex Google, YouTube, Tinder | Aotearoa Proud |

📍 Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2020
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Oct 2014
Parrot Analytics is the leading global audience demand analytics company for the attention economy. With the world’s largest audience attention datasets, the company currently tracks more than a trillion expressions of demand in over 100 languages from 200+ countries to reveal what consumers engage with and watch the most across platforms. Parrot Analytics is a trusted partner to some of the biggest media companies and content creators in the world, helping them optimize content workflows in real time. Partnering with companies across the entire content supply chain, from agencies to global direct-to-consumer platforms, Parrot Analytics helps drive better production, distribution, acquisition and marketing decisions, as well as increased subscriber growth and retention. The company has offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Auckland. For more information visit www.parrotanalytics.com.
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2022
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Jul 2022
Seaside Ventures is a cutting-edge startup platform with a hyper-focus on incubating, launching, and scaling the most promising ideas exclusively within the health and wellness industry. By offering a comprehensive ecosystem of resources, expert guidance, and access to a network of industry-specific mentors and partners, Seaside Ventures propels startups from ideation to scalable success. Seaside Ventures is revolutionizing how health and wellness startups launch and make a lasting impact through our proven process and deep expertise.
2020
Angel Track
Nov 2020
First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.
2017
Partner
Jan 2017
Act One Ventures invests in extraordinary founders transforming how modern businesses operate and scale in the AI economy. We’re early partners for those rearchitecting the systems behind modern enterprise — across infrastructure, automation, and decision-making. Founded by two former entrepreneurs, we invest like operators because we’ve been there. That experience — across IPOs, hard pivots, and shutdowns — informs how we help teams navigate the decisions that matter early: pricing, GTM, capital strategy, team design. When that kind of support meets founders who’ve lived the problem, it sets the stage for outsized outcomes like AuditBoard, an early Act One-led Seed investment that became the largest VC-backed software exit in the U.S. in 2024 at $3.15 billion.
2014
Investor
Oct 2014
Parrot Analytics is the leading global audience demand analytics company for the attention economy. With the world’s largest audience attention datasets, the company currently tracks more than a trillion expressions of demand in over 100 languages from 200+ countries to reveal what consumers engage with and watch the most across platforms. Parrot Analytics is a trusted partner to some of the biggest media companies and content creators in the world, helping them optimize content workflows in real time. Partnering with companies across the entire content supply chain, from agencies to global direct-to-consumer platforms, Parrot Analytics helps drive better production, distribution, acquisition and marketing decisions, as well as increased subscriber growth and retention. The company has offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Auckland. For more information visit www.parrotanalytics.com.
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