Benjamin Holloway

Entrepreneur, Investor, & Operator

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 8 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2021
VC🌍 United States
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VC Investor
Nov 2020
Morpheus Ventures is a Los Angeles based early stage venture capital firm. We looked to partner with innovative entrepreneurs in creating market disruptive companies.
Board Observer
Sep 2018
The thinQ API platform delivers a better way to power voice and text messaging in the cloud for SaaS platforms and enterprises. We make it easy to purchase phone numbers for inbound voice, bring your own carriers via SIP trunking and Twilio, Nexmo, Plivo, SignalWire, route outbound domestic, toll-free, and international calls, plus text-enable numbers to scale your SMS/MMS communications. Our Least Cost Routing (LCR) engine and database features – Location Routing Number (LRN), Caller Name (CNAM) and E911 – ensure that you're properly routing across 40 high-quality carriers and paying the best price for every call. Add call-specific analytics and SIP ladders along with our five-star support team, and you've found a "better way" to communicate. The thinQ.io platform unites our inbound-outbound voice and text messaging portals into one easy, powerful Web platform. It’s your choice: use our new, easy workflows to buy and port phone numbers, create route profiles and trunks, enable text messaging, or use our APIs to add and control our inbound and outbound voice and texting features in your existing tech stack in minutes.
Board Observer
Jan 2018
Netsparker develops a leading-edge web application security solution. The combination of dead accurate scanning with proprietary automatic exploitation technology brought Netsparker early success, and the company is now a recognized leading player in the web application security industry. Netsparker can identify vulnerabilities in all types of modern web applications, regardless of the underlying architecture or platform. Upon identifying an exploitable vulnerability, the Netsparker scanner uses unique Proof-Based Scanning™ technology to generate a proof of exploit that shows the result is not a false positive. Netsparker is available as desktop software, a managed service, or an on-premises solution. It is trusted and used by world-renowned organizations from all industry verticals, including Samsung, NASA, Microsoft, ING Bank, and Ernst & Young.
Board Observer
Jan 2018
Invicti Security is transforming the way web applications are secured. An AppSec leader for more than 15 years, Invicti enables organizations in every industry to continuously scan and secure all of their web applications and APIs at the speed of innovation. Invicti provides a comprehensive view of an organization’s entire web application portfolio, and powerful automation and integrations enable customers to achieve broad coverage of even thousands of applications. Invicti is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and serves more than 3,500 organizations of all sizes all over the world.
Board Observer
Feb 2017
Mailgun by Sinch is the leading email delivery service for businesses around the world. Our powerful APIs enable you to send, receive and track email effortlessly! We help hundreds of thousands of companies like Lyft, Microsoft, and Etsy send 250 billion emails every year. Since 2010, Mailgun by Sinch has delivered innovative technologies to technically progressive companies around the globe through products like our RESTful Email API, elegant Inbound Email Routing software, and a reliable cloud-based infrastructure boasting 99.99% server uptime.
Experience · 15 entries
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2023
Co-Founder
Dec 2023
Franklin Alliance is a national network of CPA firms supporting each other to evolve, grow, and expand their market reach. Unlike Wall Street, which focuses on profits and shareholders, we care about Main Street – the core of local businesses. We believe in the transformative power of entrepreneurship, where individuals can create lasting change and impact their community. We also know how important it is to preserve traditions, expand legacies, and support growth at the community level. That’s why we empower CPA firms to reach their full potential and make a meaningful impact in their communities while maintaining their unique identity in local markets. With our platform, growing CPA firms can stay competitive and grow faster.
Partner
Dec 2023
Main Street Legacy Partners is an operator-led investment firm seeking to acquire and grow an existing companies with annual revenues ranging from $2 to $50 million. We are focused on select industries that can benefit from our sales, marketing, and operational expertise. We do not seek to drive value through cost-cutting measures. We are operators focused on growth, taking care of employees, and promoting great culture.
Private Equity & Restructuring
Jan 2023
ARETÉ · [ä-re-tā] : n - The aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character. Areté Capital Partners is a boutique special situation advisory firm which provides independent fiduciary and stewardship services to companies experiencing significant growth pains, complex organizational change or existential crisis. With our steadfast orientation to leadership, execution and value creation, we seek out opportunities which provide both the authority and responsibility to lead organizations and drive solutions. We are comfortable making difficult decisions, on accelerated timeframes and with limited information. We thrive on crisis and excel in the often non-linear processes associated with rapid transformation. After 30+ years of managing crisis, we have gained valuable insights which enable us to confidently say we understand the vast chasm between execution and PowerPoint. We prefer to be on the front lines standing shoulder to shoulder with our partners.
2021
Growth Equity Investor
Apr 2021
Graham Partners is a private investment firm focused on investing in technology-driven companies that are spurring innovation in advanced manufacturing, resulting in product substitutions, raw materials conversions, and disruptions to traditional end markets. Graham Partners targets companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $50 million, and will invest in smaller companies to the extent they complement one or more of its other holdings.
2020
VC Investor
Nov 2020
Morpheus Ventures is a Los Angeles based early stage venture capital firm. We looked to partner with innovative entrepreneurs in creating market disruptive companies.
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