Don Charlton

Tech Entrepreneur, Inventor, Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
VC🌍 United States
6
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2
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3
Mid stage
0
Late stage
4y
Years active

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Feb 2025
Were Loop, a new local service here in Atlanta. We’re not amazon. Were not goodwill. We’re your neighbors. And we want your sonos speakers. Sell your stuff in 18 seconds. We buy it, venmo you cash, and pick up from your porch tomorrow. No sketchy meetups. No haggling in parking lots. No messaging "is this available?" How it works: 1. We buy your stuff. Just take a picture! 2. Put on your porch. Well pick it up. 3. Get paid via Venmo. Youre done! We believe items should have long, happy lives. Your home isnt a storage unit... Keep what you use. Loop what you dont.
Investor
Apr 2023
Black Tech Nation Ventures (BTN.vc) is a Pittsburgh-based, national fund that aims to invest in primarily in U.S.-based technology companies. We focus on funding tech start-ups founded by Black and/or diverse entrepreneurs with significant diversity in their leadership teams. Our overall goal is to use our dollars, platform, and community to generate wealth for underrepresented founders in tech. //BTN.vc has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch for its investment thesis.
Investor
Jan 2023
RentCheck is the property management solution that helps property managers save time on inspections with easy self-guided inspections that anyone can do from their smartphone. www.getrentcheck.com
Investor
Jul 2022
Chipper Cash is a financial technology company serving more than five million customers across the African continent. In 2018, Chipper Cash revolutionized moving money in Africa with the introduction of fee-free transfers for personal payments—providing a frictionless way to send and receive money cross-border and enabling financial inclusivity across the continent. Since then, Chipper has increased its product suite by offering personal investment products and business solutions, and expanded its reach into the US. Led by co-founders Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled, Chipper Cash is focused on its mission to provide the most trusted and accessible financial services for people living in Africa and beyond.
Investor
Jul 2022
Neighborhood Studios partners with tenacious founders to build hyperlocal startups from the ground up. We are a venture studio based in Atlanta, GA with a deep expertise in local startups. We have created a repeatable process to identify unique insights to hyperlocal problems, develop novel product entry points, de-risk our product approach, recruit exceptional founders / CEOs, and ultimately launch a few hyperlocal startups per year.
Investor
May 2022
Coco is a robotic delivery service that deploys remotely piloted sidewalk vehicles to make last-mile deliveries more affordable, reliable and sustainable. Our robot fleet serves thousands of customers per week across Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Austin and Houston, creating a more optimistic future of delivery that nourishes local communities.
Experience · 8 entries
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2025
Investor
Feb 2025
Were Loop, a new local service here in Atlanta. We’re not amazon. Were not goodwill. We’re your neighbors. And we want your sonos speakers. Sell your stuff in 18 seconds. We buy it, venmo you cash, and pick up from your porch tomorrow. No sketchy meetups. No haggling in parking lots. No messaging "is this available?" How it works: 1. We buy your stuff. Just take a picture! 2. Put on your porch. Well pick it up. 3. Get paid via Venmo. Youre done! We believe items should have long, happy lives. Your home isnt a storage unit... Keep what you use. Loop what you dont.
2023
Investor
Apr 2023
Black Tech Nation Ventures (BTN.vc) is a Pittsburgh-based, national fund that aims to invest in primarily in U.S.-based technology companies. We focus on funding tech start-ups founded by Black and/or diverse entrepreneurs with significant diversity in their leadership teams. Our overall goal is to use our dollars, platform, and community to generate wealth for underrepresented founders in tech. //BTN.vc has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch for its investment thesis.
Investor
Jan 2023
RentCheck is the property management solution that helps property managers save time on inspections with easy self-guided inspections that anyone can do from their smartphone. www.getrentcheck.com
2022
Investor
Jul 2022
Chipper Cash is a financial technology company serving more than five million customers across the African continent. In 2018, Chipper Cash revolutionized moving money in Africa with the introduction of fee-free transfers for personal payments—providing a frictionless way to send and receive money cross-border and enabling financial inclusivity across the continent. Since then, Chipper has increased its product suite by offering personal investment products and business solutions, and expanded its reach into the US. Led by co-founders Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled, Chipper Cash is focused on its mission to provide the most trusted and accessible financial services for people living in Africa and beyond.
Investor
Jul 2022
Neighborhood Studios partners with tenacious founders to build hyperlocal startups from the ground up. We are a venture studio based in Atlanta, GA with a deep expertise in local startups. We have created a repeatable process to identify unique insights to hyperlocal problems, develop novel product entry points, de-risk our product approach, recruit exceptional founders / CEOs, and ultimately launch a few hyperlocal startups per year.
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