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Co-Founder and CEO/Investor
May 2020
Stream Engine is an artificial intelligence platform designed to analyze, manage, and validate digital media through vision, voice, and chat sentiment simultaneously, fully automated and in real time.
Dual-Use Technology:
Originally developed for commercial purposes to evaluate logo and brand recognition across video and OTT platforms, Stream Engine excels in detecting visual patterns, listening for keywords, and identifying keywords across chat and user comments. By triangulating vision, voice, and chat, Stream Engine provides unparalleled media value analytics and dashboards, offering clarity on media value for brands at scale.
Military and Cybersecurity Applications:
While initially intended for commercial use, Stream Engine has garnered significant interest from the Department of Defense (DoD) and other military and cybersecurity organizations. Its robust AI capabilities enable comprehensive data scanning and threat detection, organizing vast amounts of data and providing actionable insights from various media sources, including video files, photos, chat logs, and audio recordings.
Strategic Benefits:
In the rapidly evolving technology landscape, the information battle is increasingly fought through accessible smart devices. The global information war, driven by influential propaganda on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Meta, X, and other social and encrypted community platforms, necessitates advanced tools for threat detection and data organization. Stream Engine empowers users to scan large volumes of data in real time, flagging and addressing emerging threats promptly.
Key Advantages for Military and Cybersecurity:
Real-Time Threat Detection: Identifies and flags threats as they develop across various media formats.
Comprehensive Data Analysis: Analyzes visual, audio, and text data to provide a holistic view of potential threats.
Scalability: Handles large data volumes, making it suitable for extensive surveillance.
Co-Founder/Investor
Feb 2019
Life looked very different for us just a few short years ago. We had high-pressure desk jobs that paid the bills, but drained our souls and our energy. Most importantly, they made it difficult to spend time together as a family—something we wanted to prioritize as a newly married couple.
So, we dared to dream a little bigger and bet everything on a business that would allow us to follow our passions: Spending time together, spending time outdoors and working hard to create something we both believed in—something that would allow others to chase their passions as well.
This is how Motive was born.
Hard work is in our DNA. Our family has been farming throughout Ohio for years, so it was only natural that when we decided to launch a CBD business, we wanted to grow our own hemp as well.
This is actually a pretty big deal. And here's why.
Among other uses in regenerative agriculture, growing hemp is often used as a bioremediation technique, which means it absorbs toxins and heavy metals from soil, allowing more delicate plants to grow there. This is great if you’re a farmer and want to start with pure, clean soil. But what if that same hemp is then used to extract CBD, and then that CBD is used in a tincture? All the impurities come along with it.
The CBD market is becoming increasingly crowded. And while there are plenty of options with flashy branding, celebrity endorsements and expensive packaging, there are a scant few who are transparent about their sourcing methods—and fewer still who own the supply chain from end to end. We saw this as the only way to ensure a high-quality, 100% pure and safe product for our customers.
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Co-Founder/Investor
Oct 2018
PartyMatch is a location-based social search mobile app that allows users to connect groups of people together to share in social experiences. Focused around nightlife, PartyMatch allows groups to match with groups to create the ultimate party experience.
Co-Founder/Investor
Jun 2017
After spending over 30 years studying sleep, we know how important a good night’s rest is for your brain and body to function properly.
We’re also aware of the nature of modern work - spending an average of 9 hours a day in front of digital screens that emit blue light.
Studies show that overexposure to blue light disrupts our sleep cycle and prevents us from falling asleep at night.
With 40% of Americans getting less than the recommended amount of sleep each night, we knew we had to intervene.
That’s when the idea for bluwinx was born.
We developed a simple solution for protecting your eyes without making any lifestyle changes.
All bluwinx glasses are made to wear during daytime and nighttime, and can be fit with your prescription, so there’s no need for two pairs of frames.
The best part is, they look just like regular eyeglasses - no amber tint!
Each of our eyeglasses is specially manufactured in an ophthalmic lab in Ohio, USA.
They are made with KODAK Total Blue® Lens technology which:
- filters up to 80% of the High Energy Visible (HEV) Blue Light
- offers 100% UV protection
- has anti-reflective coating on the front and back
- has no amber tint
- has a superhydrophobic layer which makes them easy-to-clean
bluwinx blue light blocking glasses deliver the KODAK Total Blue® Lens technology, offering unsurpassed filtration of the harmful blue-violet light.
Enjoy less harmful screen time and catch quality Zzzs with bluwinx - because you have the right to a good night’s sleep.
Co-Founder/Investor
Apr 2017
Coaches Tribune offers free coaching information for all of the most popular youth sports. Our site features world-class instruction to help youth sports coaches and parents gain insight and ideas from legendary coaches, renowned instructors, and some of the leading organizations in sports.
The concept for Coaches Tribune was developed in the living room of Michele Kiernan, a successful real estate executive who is raising two sport-loving boys with her husband in northeast Ohio. She spent the evening playing in the backyard with her son, who grabbed a football and tee from the garage to practice kicking field goals. After repeated misses, her son asked what he was doing wrong. Michele is an avid football fan but never played the sport, and later in the evening began looking online for information on the correct way to kick a field goal. After 30 minutes of pouring through websites with pay walls and online videos that didn’t provide answers, she called her husband to express frustration at the lack of free, high-quality online resources in a single location.
Through a collaboration with Sirocco Media, founded by longtime associate John Kueber, Michele began the process of building the framework for Coaches Tribune.
Partner/Investor
Apr 2017
A national strategic consulting firm focused on high impact commercial developments that transform communities.
Gramercy West works with large-scale commercial developments to identify opportunities to extract incremental marketing dollars, revenue opportunities, and long-term growth strategies.
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2020
Co-Founder and CEO/Investor
May 2020
Stream Engine is an artificial intelligence platform designed to analyze, manage, and validate digital media through vision, voice, and chat sentiment simultaneously, fully automated and in real time.
Dual-Use Technology:
Originally developed for commercial purposes to evaluate logo and brand recognition across video and OTT platforms, Stream Engine excels in detecting visual patterns, listening for keywords, and identifying keywords across chat and user comments. By triangulating vision, voice, and chat, Stream Engine provides unparalleled media value analytics and dashboards, offering clarity on media value for brands at scale.
Military and Cybersecurity Applications:
While initially intended for commercial use, Stream Engine has garnered significant interest from the Department of Defense (DoD) and other military and cybersecurity organizations. Its robust AI capabilities enable comprehensive data scanning and threat detection, organizing vast amounts of data and providing actionable insights from various media sources, including video files, photos, chat logs, and audio recordings.
Strategic Benefits:
In the rapidly evolving technology landscape, the information battle is increasingly fought through accessible smart devices. The global information war, driven by influential propaganda on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Meta, X, and other social and encrypted community platforms, necessitates advanced tools for threat detection and data organization. Stream Engine empowers users to scan large volumes of data in real time, flagging and addressing emerging threats promptly.
Key Advantages for Military and Cybersecurity:
Real-Time Threat Detection: Identifies and flags threats as they develop across various media formats.
Comprehensive Data Analysis: Analyzes visual, audio, and text data to provide a holistic view of potential threats.
Scalability: Handles large data volumes, making it suitable for extensive surveillance.
2019
Co-Founder/Investor
Feb 2019
Life looked very different for us just a few short years ago. We had high-pressure desk jobs that paid the bills, but drained our souls and our energy. Most importantly, they made it difficult to spend time together as a family—something we wanted to prioritize as a newly married couple.
So, we dared to dream a little bigger and bet everything on a business that would allow us to follow our passions: Spending time together, spending time outdoors and working hard to create something we both believed in—something that would allow others to chase their passions as well.
This is how Motive was born.
Hard work is in our DNA. Our family has been farming throughout Ohio for years, so it was only natural that when we decided to launch a CBD business, we wanted to grow our own hemp as well.
This is actually a pretty big deal. And here's why.
Among other uses in regenerative agriculture, growing hemp is often used as a bioremediation technique, which means it absorbs toxins and heavy metals from soil, allowing more delicate plants to grow there. This is great if you’re a farmer and want to start with pure, clean soil. But what if that same hemp is then used to extract CBD, and then that CBD is used in a tincture? All the impurities come along with it.
The CBD market is becoming increasingly crowded. And while there are plenty of options with flashy branding, celebrity endorsements and expensive packaging, there are a scant few who are transparent about their sourcing methods—and fewer still who own the supply chain from end to end. We saw this as the only way to ensure a high-quality, 100% pure and safe product for our customers.
Co-Founder
Feb 2019
Life looked very different for us just a few short years ago. We had high-pressure desk jobs that paid the bills, but drained our souls and our energy. Most importantly, they made it difficult to spend time together as a family—something we wanted to prioritize as a newly married couple.
So, we dared to dream a little bigger and bet everything on a business that would allow us to follow our passions: Spending time together, spending time outdoors and working hard to create something we both believed in—something that would allow others to chase their passions as well.
This is how Motive was born.
Hard work is in our DNA. Our family has been farming throughout Ohio for years, so it was only natural that when we decided to launch a CBD business, we wanted to grow our own hemp as well.
This is actually a pretty big deal. And here's why.
Among other uses in regenerative agriculture, growing hemp is often used as a bioremediation technique, which means it absorbs toxins and heavy metals from soil, allowing more delicate plants to grow there. This is great if you’re a farmer and want to start with pure, clean soil. But what if that same hemp is then used to extract CBD, and then that CBD is used in a tincture? All the impurities come along with it.
The CBD market is becoming increasingly crowded. And while there are plenty of options with flashy branding, celebrity endorsements and expensive packaging, there are a scant few who are transparent about their sourcing methods—and fewer still who own the supply chain from end to end. We saw this as the only way to ensure a high-quality, 100% pure and safe product for our customers.
2018
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Co-Founder/Investor
Oct 2018
PartyMatch is a location-based social search mobile app that allows users to connect groups of people together to share in social experiences. Focused around nightlife, PartyMatch allows groups to match with groups to create the ultimate party experience.
Partner
May 2018
Damage is a creative agency that focuses on engaging consumers through the virtual frontier of gaming & streaming.
Founded by gaming industry experts and powered by award-winning ad agency leaders, Damage delivers thought-provoking, category-shattering campaigns and content that resonates with our community. We consistently deliver provocative and authentic ideation for our clients in order to ingrain their brand with gamers.
Agency capabilities include brand strategy, creative, digital / social, influencer marketing, experiential and pro team partnerships.
To learn more, please visit damagecreative.com
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