Richard J.

6x VC & PE-Backed CEO | Led $4B in Revenue & $2B in M&A Transactions | Founder of Inline Capital | $300M of Fundraising

📍 Austin, Texas, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Founder, CEO & Board Member
Oct 2017
101 Commerce is building a global ecommerce platform that will power hundreds of private label brands across diverse product categories. In the next two years, 101 Commerce will acquire, invest in, and launch multiple brands that primarily utilize the incredible operating leverage of Amazon’s FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon) platform. What AWS is to software services, FBA is to ecommerce: you can outsource the hardest parts of ecommerce (traffic, conversion, fulfillment, free shipping, etc). This allows growing businesses to focus entirely on designing a great product, building a great brand and providing stellar customer service. Through innovation and consolidation, 101 Commerce is creating additional operating leverage with technology, supply-chain economies of scale and big data-driven marketing – normally a set of big challenges for niche, ecommerce brands.
early stageConsumer Goods
Founding Board Member
Aug 2015
b.well’s comprehensive platform unifies data, solutions and services in one place — empowering providers, payers, retail pharmacies, and healthcare technology companies to deliver frictionless, personalized healthcare experiences; maximize technology investments; and unlock the power of care ecosystems and generative AI. Our platform is supporting better healthcare experiences for 150M people, powered by over 60K consumer-mediated data connections, 3 integration options and 1 mission: to solve healthcare’s fragmentation problem.
Board Member
Jun 2011
UPDATE: Technorati was bought by Synacor in 2016. Technorati was a company of advertising technology specialists working toward rewarding the creators of great content. To accomplish this, Technorati built tools and services that accelerates publishers’ programmatic revenues including the first agnostic header bidding management tool called SmartWrapper. Technorati was headquartered in San Francisco.
Experience · 11 entries
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2026
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
Mar 2026
Advanced Curation reduces business cycles in the process of creating Deal IDs. Our self-serve Deal Curator is purpose-built to help buyers generate and receive Deal IDs in minutes versus days. Clients manage their own deal library, giving them full control over which deals they activate for their campaigns. This streamlines the buying process and frees up time to focus on client strategy instead of seller negotiations.
2025
Founder
Jul 2025
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2023
CEO Coach, Executive Coach & Strategic Advisor
Jan 2023
2017
Founder, CEO & Board Member
Oct 2017
101 Commerce is building a global ecommerce platform that will power hundreds of private label brands across diverse product categories. In the next two years, 101 Commerce will acquire, invest in, and launch multiple brands that primarily utilize the incredible operating leverage of Amazon’s FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon) platform. What AWS is to software services, FBA is to ecommerce: you can outsource the hardest parts of ecommerce (traffic, conversion, fulfillment, free shipping, etc). This allows growing businesses to focus entirely on designing a great product, building a great brand and providing stellar customer service. Through innovation and consolidation, 101 Commerce is creating additional operating leverage with technology, supply-chain economies of scale and big data-driven marketing – normally a set of big challenges for niche, ecommerce brands.
early stageConsumer Goods
2015
Founding Board Member
Aug 2015
b.well’s comprehensive platform unifies data, solutions and services in one place — empowering providers, payers, retail pharmacies, and healthcare technology companies to deliver frictionless, personalized healthcare experiences; maximize technology investments; and unlock the power of care ecosystems and generative AI. Our platform is supporting better healthcare experiences for 150M people, powered by over 60K consumer-mediated data connections, 3 integration options and 1 mission: to solve healthcare’s fragmentation problem.
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