James Hendren

Work with startup technology companies, as well as serial entrepreneur. Board member, advisor, mentor, investor.

📍 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 13 investments📅 30 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
VC🌍 United States
13
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2
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Board Member
2018
LumoXchange is the world's money transfer marketplace for global peer-to-peer payments. We provide a seamless way to comparison shop for the best possible exchange rates and make payments globally on a single platform. Our currency exchange marketplace, we are able to consistently provide global payments with better exchange rates. Through our innovative Local Exchange Networks (LENs) created with local financial institutions in each country, we are able to provide cross border payments using the real exchange rates at the local level, allowing our customers to easily search, compare, and send money online with the best exchange rates available. Simply search, compare exchange rates, and send money.
Board Member
2018
A human-centered AI platform for banking powered by the world's first EmpathyEngine® @BondDotAi on Twitter.
Board Member
2015
Broadband Development Group (BDG) was formed to address pent up demand for high-performance, affordable broadband Internet access. We enter markets where new technology combined with innovative business models enable a compelling competitive advantage. Our initial focus is on broadband Internet access for residential and business subscribers in Multi-Tenant Units. We have designed a network architecture and business model to deliver broadband in this segment that is up to 600% faster than the fastest speed available in most markets, and which is typically 40% cheaper at every speed. Furthermore, we offer customers instant activation and no hassles - no waiting, no modem, and no contract.
Board Member
2012
Qbox is the dedicated Elasticsearch hosting solution. Qbox is on the leading edge of open-source full-text search and analytics, and with our intuitive interface for your clusters with maximized provisioning time, getting your Elasticsearch clusters up and running is a cinch. You can then customize your Qbox clusters with a large and growing set of plugins for monitoring, database rivers, analysis, and more. Qbox enables easy interaction, uptime, and availability from our support team. Working with Elasticsearch, Qbox provides professional support and implementation, and Elasticsearch scaling, monitoring, and deployment all are simplified for even the most massive and complex Elasticsearch clusters. Our Qbox customers love us because we make their job easier and because our 24x7 support is second to none.
Board Member
2009
EZRA Innovations specializes possesses unique, platform drug delivery technology. The benefit to the company is the ability to mimic difficult to replicate drug formulations. Additionally, this technology can be utilized for Brand lifecycle management, combination drugs, and reformulations of existing drugs.
Board Member
2009
Movista is an enterprise-grade retail execution SaaS company that empowers store and field teams to orchestrate in-store work and improve on-shelf availability with ease. We are revolutionizing the way retail teams collaborate so they can execute flawlessly in today’s dynamic store environment. Our solution unifies all key execution functionality into a single integrated desktop/mobile work hub that enhances workforce productivity and in-store item management.
Past Board Member
2008
Organizations of every size have difficulty reconciling their disparate data for use in downstream and connected systems. Black Oak’s signature software package HiPER enables reconciliation by decluttering and linking enterprise data using all the information available in the system. HiPER links data with the highest possible levels of accuracy, while keeping enterprise data safe, separate, and secure. HiPER enables marketing, risk, and operational systems to talk to each other rather than talk across each other; every record about the same customer, product, or service is matched and connected at the same time. Regardless of the industry, HiPER brings value to all organizations who deal with the vast quantities of data produced in the modern business ecosystem. HiPER consists of multiple products that can be leveraged depending upon your organization’s needs - HiPER Batch: HiPER is a batch entity resolution software designed to resolve entities in big data sets. Organizations with duplicates in their data, or data locked into disparate systems, can make full use of their data using HiPER’s entity resolution. The result is a knowledgebase where all linked entities can be identified and the data can then flow to downstream systems. HiPER Real-Time (HRT): HiPER Real-Time is a series of modules for Solr and is used to convert Solr’s powerful index and search capabilities into entity resolution in real-time. Whether searching people, products, or events, HiPER Real-Time brings the power of big-data entity resolution to real-time processes. HiPER Quality Check (HQC): Using Black Oak’s unique match quality auditing and measuring strategies, HiPER can be used to measure your existing data, identifying estimated false positive and false negative matches. We have worked with multiple large technology clients interested in improving their internal processes to audit their existing entity resolution and proposed strategies for continuous improvement.
Board Member
2004
TICKETsage was founded in February 1999 with a goal of being better, and different. We were the first with real-time seat selection on the web, first with real-time print at home, first with true distributed 64-bit architecture, and first with anti-scalping technology that actually works.
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2018
Board Member
2018
LumoXchange is the world's money transfer marketplace for global peer-to-peer payments. We provide a seamless way to comparison shop for the best possible exchange rates and make payments globally on a single platform. Our currency exchange marketplace, we are able to consistently provide global payments with better exchange rates. Through our innovative Local Exchange Networks (LENs) created with local financial institutions in each country, we are able to provide cross border payments using the real exchange rates at the local level, allowing our customers to easily search, compare, and send money online with the best exchange rates available. Simply search, compare exchange rates, and send money.
BOND.AI (EverySpend)
Board Member
2018
Board Member
2018
A human-centered AI platform for banking powered by the world's first EmpathyEngine® @BondDotAi on Twitter.
2017
Vixiar Medical
Board Member
2017
2015
Board Member
2015
Broadband Development Group (BDG) was formed to address pent up demand for high-performance, affordable broadband Internet access. We enter markets where new technology combined with innovative business models enable a compelling competitive advantage. Our initial focus is on broadband Internet access for residential and business subscribers in Multi-Tenant Units. We have designed a network architecture and business model to deliver broadband in this segment that is up to 600% faster than the fastest speed available in most markets, and which is typically 40% cheaper at every speed. Furthermore, we offer customers instant activation and no hassles - no waiting, no modem, and no contract.
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