Ed Porter

Blue Chip CRO | Fixing revenue problems for CEOs | Investor | Polo Shirt Wearer

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2023
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5
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8y
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Investor/Limited Partner
Aug 2023
BOLD Ventures is a regionally-focused qualifying venture capital fund, that is focused on investing in innovative technology that better the lives of individuals, enhance business outcomes, and improve society, led by diverse founders and teams. BOLD Ventures is partnered with BOLDER, Inc., a 501(c)(3) focused on supporting wellness initiatives for mental, physical, and financial health for startups and small businesses nationwide. With an acute focus on women, diverse, and veteran founders in low-to-moderate socioeconomic areas, we aim to provide resources and tools to founders to focus on themselves and their well-being so that they can focus on growing their businesses and maximizing returns for their investors.
Early Stage Investor
Jul 2022
How much time per day do you spend reading, researching, writing or looking for emails and documents to send to a client, colleague or prospect? One hour? More? Today’s knowledge worker spends up to 28% of their week on email. More than 11 hours a week! That’s not counting the lost productivity every time they stop what they are doing to check their email. In total, reading, writing and getting refocused after checking email wastes over 1,048 hours each year. What if there was a way for you (or your team) to leave tedious, repetitive tasks behind AND increase consistency in your messaging? Now there is! It doesn’t matter if you’re in Customer Service/Support, Sales, Human Resources, Recruiting, Accounting, Customer Success, or you’re a professor, doctor, lawyer, real estate agent, or a pharmacist. You can save hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars in wasted time by using … FlyMSG - a FREE text expander and personal writing assistant. FlyMSG autofills snippets or entire messages within nanoseconds anywhere online, allowing any user to: ✅ Increase engagement ✅ Streamline personal productivity ✅ Communicate more effectively & efficiently Core features of FlyMSG are: 1️⃣ Assign a shortcut FlyCut for any type of message or snippet (sales, admin, customer support, recruiting, HR, financial, etc.) 2️⃣ Categorize your FlyCuts in the Cloud for easy access from Google Chrome 3️⃣ Type your FlyCut into any text input field to auto-populate, autofill or expand your saved content Thousands of individuals from hundreds of companies like Google, Uber, Cytiva, Juniper, Proofpoint, Netflix, or PillPak (to name a few) are using FlyMSG to help them Type Less and Do More. It’s time to get back those hours you wasted building, organizing, copying and pasting email or messaging snippets into your CRM, online, Google Sheets, LinkedIn or other web-based application. Click “Sign Up” to access FlyMSG for FREE.
Investor and Business Partner
Nov 2021
Started in 2015 as a side project @onlyincbus has evolved into a massive, dedicated, Columbus community, consisting of a podcast, website, Instagram account, and now a brick and motor in the heart of the short north. With more than 4,500,000 monthly views, onlyincbus has quickly become the largest independent media company in central ohio.
Investor and Board Member
Mar 2021
HCRpath is dedicated to improving healthcare for all seniors. We believe this starts with making sure Medicare-covered seniors have access to preventative benefits that are included in their health plan. This access begins with the Annual Wellness Visit. We are committed to shedding light on the systemic problem of seniors—particularly those in minority communities—not getting access to the preventative care to which they are entitled. HCRpath simplifies the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit and enables providers to deliver a better patient care experience helping integrate wellness visits into their service offerings easily and efficiently. HCRpath combines health and wellness screenings with a cross-reference of the patient’s Medicare-covered preventative appointment history.
Advisor and Investor
Jul 2018
Seamless.ai delivers the worlds best sales leads. Maximize revenue, increase sales and acquire your total addressable market instantly using artificial intelligence. Join thousands who are generating millions today at www.seamless.ai.
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2023
Investor/Limited Partner
Aug 2023
BOLD Ventures is a regionally-focused qualifying venture capital fund, that is focused on investing in innovative technology that better the lives of individuals, enhance business outcomes, and improve society, led by diverse founders and teams. BOLD Ventures is partnered with BOLDER, Inc., a 501(c)(3) focused on supporting wellness initiatives for mental, physical, and financial health for startups and small businesses nationwide. With an acute focus on women, diverse, and veteran founders in low-to-moderate socioeconomic areas, we aim to provide resources and tools to founders to focus on themselves and their well-being so that they can focus on growing their businesses and maximizing returns for their investors.
2022
Early Stage Investor
Jul 2022
How much time per day do you spend reading, researching, writing or looking for emails and documents to send to a client, colleague or prospect? One hour? More? Today’s knowledge worker spends up to 28% of their week on email. More than 11 hours a week! That’s not counting the lost productivity every time they stop what they are doing to check their email. In total, reading, writing and getting refocused after checking email wastes over 1,048 hours each year. What if there was a way for you (or your team) to leave tedious, repetitive tasks behind AND increase consistency in your messaging? Now there is! It doesn’t matter if you’re in Customer Service/Support, Sales, Human Resources, Recruiting, Accounting, Customer Success, or you’re a professor, doctor, lawyer, real estate agent, or a pharmacist. You can save hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars in wasted time by using … FlyMSG - a FREE text expander and personal writing assistant. FlyMSG autofills snippets or entire messages within nanoseconds anywhere online, allowing any user to: ✅ Increase engagement ✅ Streamline personal productivity ✅ Communicate more effectively & efficiently Core features of FlyMSG are: 1️⃣ Assign a shortcut FlyCut for any type of message or snippet (sales, admin, customer support, recruiting, HR, financial, etc.) 2️⃣ Categorize your FlyCuts in the Cloud for easy access from Google Chrome 3️⃣ Type your FlyCut into any text input field to auto-populate, autofill or expand your saved content Thousands of individuals from hundreds of companies like Google, Uber, Cytiva, Juniper, Proofpoint, Netflix, or PillPak (to name a few) are using FlyMSG to help them Type Less and Do More. It’s time to get back those hours you wasted building, organizing, copying and pasting email or messaging snippets into your CRM, online, Google Sheets, LinkedIn or other web-based application. Click “Sign Up” to access FlyMSG for FREE.
2021
Investor and Business Partner
Nov 2021
Started in 2015 as a side project @onlyincbus has evolved into a massive, dedicated, Columbus community, consisting of a podcast, website, Instagram account, and now a brick and motor in the heart of the short north. With more than 4,500,000 monthly views, onlyincbus has quickly become the largest independent media company in central ohio.
Investor and Board Member
Mar 2021
HCRpath is dedicated to improving healthcare for all seniors. We believe this starts with making sure Medicare-covered seniors have access to preventative benefits that are included in their health plan. This access begins with the Annual Wellness Visit. We are committed to shedding light on the systemic problem of seniors—particularly those in minority communities—not getting access to the preventative care to which they are entitled. HCRpath simplifies the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit and enables providers to deliver a better patient care experience helping integrate wellness visits into their service offerings easily and efficiently. HCRpath combines health and wellness screenings with a cross-reference of the patient’s Medicare-covered preventative appointment history.
2019
Owner/Chief Revenue Officer (Fractional)
Jun 2019
Blue Chip CRO is a fractional chief revenue officer service that enables businesses to build revenue strategies and accelerate their growth. My core focus is aligning your revenue organization — marketing, sales, enablement, and customer success teams — through strategy, process and technology to ensure they work together in harmony. Once aligned, a revenue organization can focus on delivering value and consistency for your buyers at every touchpoint from brand awareness and prospect nurturing to customer onboarding, support, management and retention. With guidance and the right tactics, we can build accountability at every step of your organization, leading to accelerated and sustainable growth!
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