Eric Ver Ploeg

NachoNacho is a B2B SaaS + Services marketplace platform powered by Fintech and AI. With NachoNacho, businesses can: 1) Manage all SaaS spend in one place by creating a separate virtual card for each vendor with tight limits. 2) Discover helpful new SaaS tools using AI-powered recommendation tools. 3) Get discounts on hundreds of SaaS products (up to 30% off lifetime). SaaS vendors + Service providers: A new low CAC acquisition channel. No integration is required. Pay on a rev-share basis.

Dynamic Signal by Firstup delivers a digital employee experience that helps companies reach, connect, and engage every worker, everywhere. From factory workers and field employees to knowledge workers in any time zone, hundreds of companies across every industry depend on our award-winning mobile, desktop, and web applications to reach each employee and build aligned, productive, actively engaged communities and employee advocates. Learn more at www.firstup.io

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Anomali delivers the leading AI-Powered Security and IT Operations Platform. Only Anomali integrates ETL, SIEM, Next-Gen SIEM, XDR, UEBA, SOAR, and TIP into one powerful platform. At the center is the Anomali Copilot that navigates a proprietary cloud-native security and IT data lake to drive first-in-market speed, scale, and performance at a fraction of the cost. Modernize security and IT operations to protect and accelerate your organization with better analytics, visibility, productivity, and talent retention. Be Different. Be the Anomali. Learn more at www.anomali.com.

Namecoach aims to solve the common problem of name mispronunciation. No matter your position within an organization, being on either end of a name mispronunciation doesn’t exactly leave you with a good feeling. So, we provide a simple and effective solution: audio name pronunciations seamlessly integrated with your online tools to easily learn and remember how to say them - perfectly. Our product is useful in many education and corporate settings.

Ver Ploeg Ventures was the umbrella for all my individual venture investment activities. I am now doing all my venture investing out of my fund, Tunitas Ventures.

A new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. Numerai manages an institutional grade long/short global equity strategy for the investors in our hedge fund. We transform and regularize financial data into machine learning problems for our global community of data scientists. In December 2015, we created the world’s first encrypted data science tournament for stock market predictions. The most accurate and original machine learning models from the world’s best data scientists are synthesized into a collective artificial intelligence that controls the capital in Numerai’s hedge fund.

PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and credit offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served nearly 20 million customers and lent nearly $4B across 9 countries while achieving solid profitability and growth.

Zūm has reimagined student transportation— managing every vehicle, driver, passenger, parent, and ride on a single platform. We’re growing fast and looking for super-smart folks motivated to fix the nations largest mass transportation system and make a real difference for students, schools, drivers, parents and caregivers. If fixing an antiquated system hidden in plain sight excites you, drop us a note at apply@ridezum.com today.

YouMail, Inc protects consumers, enterprises, and carriers from harmful phone calls. We protect consumers with app-based call protection services. We protect consumer-facing enterprises by detecting and helping to shut down imposter traffic that can lead to financial or brand damage. We protect carriers with robocall mitigation services that detect when bad traffic is originating, traversing, or terminating on their networks. Our direct consumer solutions answer over a billion live calls per year across well over 10 million registered users, powering America's most robust telephone sensor network in identifying and providing zero-hour protection against illegal calling campaigns and cyberattacks. We also operate the Robocall Index ™, the nation’s definitive source on telephone network activity and attacks. YouMail, Inc. is privately funded and based in Irvine, California. The YouMail service uses technology that is protected by one or more US patents including numbers 10992803, 10904392, 10848618, 10798241, 10757252, 10757250, 10694033, 10498887, 10110739, 10051121, and 9591131, as well as additional US and foreign patents pending.

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Seed Stage solo GP venture firm, run by Eric Ver Ploeg. My primary value-add is helping raise your Series A from the best possible investor.

NachoNacho is a B2B SaaS + Services marketplace platform powered by Fintech and AI. With NachoNacho, businesses can: 1) Manage all SaaS spend in one place by creating a separate virtual card for each vendor with tight limits. 2) Discover helpful new SaaS tools using AI-powered recommendation tools. 3) Get discounts on hundreds of SaaS products (up to 30% off lifetime). SaaS vendors + Service providers: A new low CAC acquisition channel. No integration is required. Pay on a rev-share basis.

LightJump Capital is a financial services firm with offices in Menlo Park, CA and Dallas, TX dedicated to using the Special Purpose Acquisition Corp. vehicle to take high quality technology and technology enabled private companies public. The firm takes an interdisciplinary approach utilizing team members from a wide variety of backgrounds, from venture to entrepreneurial enterprises.

Dynamic Signal by Firstup delivers a digital employee experience that helps companies reach, connect, and engage every worker, everywhere. From factory workers and field employees to knowledge workers in any time zone, hundreds of companies across every industry depend on our award-winning mobile, desktop, and web applications to reach each employee and build aligned, productive, actively engaged communities and employee advocates. Learn more at www.firstup.io

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