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Jim Simons

Managing Director Split Rock Partners

📍 Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 28 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2015
Angel investor🌍 United States
17
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28y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Jan 2015
We provide a turnkey enterprise SaaS contact center solution integrating a wide range of asynchronous communication channels in a single workflow and UI enabling bot & human collaboration. Channels we support include: WhatsApp, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, SMS, RCS, ABC and modern live chat SDKs for In-Web and In-App messaging. Our clients are customer centric enterprises such as Zappos, Emirates Airlines, Air Canada, Engie, AXA, MTN, Noon, citizenM hotels, Netflix and Slack to name a few.
Board Member
Jun 2013
InsideView helps B2B companies drive rapid growth with the only platform that empowers business leaders to quickly and confidently make go-to-market decisions. As the market shifts from volume-based to targeted sales and marketing strategies, businesses turn to InsideView to help them identify new market opportunities, align sales and marketing execution, and optimize performance. InsideViews Targeting Intelligence platform, built using artificial intelligence (AI), delivers the industrys most relevant, reliable data trusted by the world’s leading B2B companies. PLAN. EXECUTE. WIN. For more information, follow @InsideView on Twitter or visit www.insideview.com.
Board Observer
Jan 2012
BlueKai serves as a staple of the Oracle Data Cloud, as well as the Oracle Marketing Cloud. To learn more follow the Oracle Marketing Cloud page on LinkedIn, or visit our website at: http://www.oracle.com/marketingcloud
Board Member
2012
TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible in the modern economy. We do this by providing an actionable picture of each person so they can be reliably represented in the marketplace. As a result, businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world. A leading presence in more than 30 countries across five continents, TransUnion provides solutions that help create economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for hundreds of millions of people. We call this Information for Good®—it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.
Board Member
2012
TruSignal, Inc., a TransUnion Company, is an innovative leader in people-based marketing technology for Fortune 500 brands, agencies, platforms, publishers and data owners. TruSignal uses predictive scoring, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), to make big data actionable for one-to-one addressable marketing. TruSignal delivers incredible results by pinpointing the best people to target at scale and optimizing the bid price for every impression. This is all accomplished through the TruAudience Platform, which combines a robust deterministic identity graph, a massive third-party data set, an advanced AI engine with multiple machine learning algorithms, extensive people-based, omnichannel ID matching technology and a robust set of integration APIs that fuel partner platforms with powerful insights, custom audience building, lookalike audiences, audience expansion and bid price optimization solutions that are easy, accurate, scalable and fast. Founded in 2012, TruSignal’s team brings decades of experience in data-driven marketing, machine learning and actionable Big Data solutions.
Board Member
Feb 2011
Powered by the cloud, NICE Actimize Xceed brings together best-in-class AML and fraud solutions, offering complete financial crime and compliance on a single platform - tailored to mid-market, regional, community banks and credit unions. Through unique self-learning abilities, Xceed adapts to new attacks and changes in customer behavior.
Board Member
Jul 2007
Our mission: To help as many seniors & their caregivers as possible through empathetic, expert guidance. You're there for them. We're here for you. We’ve helped millions of seniors and families select the right senior care products and services for their loved ones while also saving time and money. We want caregivers to feel less alone and less stressed when navigating the world of difficult senior care decisions. Many of our employees have had personal experience with caregiving and are passionate about making this mission a reality.
Board Member
Jul 2007
Founded in 2003, Nexxo Financial Corporation provides a turn-key, multi-product and omni-channel solution for the delivery of alternative financial services (money transfers, check cashing, money orders, bill payment, prepaid card servicing and reloads, and mobile top-ups,). Nexxo’s technology offering includes teller facing, mobile application and self-serve kiosk which allows clients to provide ubiquitous product access while strengthening customer relationship. Integrated customer registration and management, compliance, and configurable pricing and promotions platform delivers a customer centric experience. An ever-growing base of underlying providers ensures that clients can deliver the right products to serve the needs of traditionally banked customers and new underserved customer segments.
Board Member
Aug 2006
Owned and operated by RealPage, Inc., MyNewPlace.com is one of the largest apartment and home rental web sites in America. Serving over 4 Million users every month on the most popular browsing platforms, we strive to be the thought leaders of this dynamic industry. Our goal is to empower our users with the most authentic property information available; from professional photography to 3-D floor plans we have the tools needed to make finding an apartment easy. After all, moving is challenging enough; finding your new place shouldn’t be.
Board Member
Jun 2002
Compete provides marketers with actionable digital intelligence to improve their online and offline marketing effectiveness. Hundreds of clients, including the world’s leading brands, rely on Compete to help them create more effective websites and more targeted advertising campaigns. Compete’s products include online measurement tools available at Compete.com, as well as deep consumer and competitor insights in the automotive, consumer goods, financial services, media, retail, telecom and travel industries. Compete’s offerings are based on the online behavior and survey responses of millions of consumers, the largest integrated panel of its kind. Compete’s unique multi-source panel methodology and industry-leading data management practices ensure our panel is unmatched in its depth, quality and integrity. To learn more about Compete or to increase your digital intelligence, visit www.compete.com or our award-winning blog at blog.compete.com.
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Board Member
Jul 1999
Powering Performance Marketplaces In Digital Media QuinStreet is a pioneer in powering decentralized online marketplaces that match searchers and “research and compare” consumers with brands. We run these virtual and private-label marketplaces in one of the nation’s largest media networks. Our industry leading segmentation and AI-driven matching technologies help consumers find better solutions and brands faster. They allow brands to target and reach in-market customer prospects with pinpoint segment-by-segment accuracy, and to pay only for performance results. Our campaign-results-driven matching decision engines and optimization algorithms are built from over 20 years and billions of dollars of online media experience. We believe in: - The direct measurability of digital media. - Performance marketing. (We pioneered it.) - The advantages of technology. We bring all of this together to deliver truly great results for consumers and brands in the world’s biggest channel.
Board Member
Jun 1998
Transforming how broadcast media leaders engage and interact with their audiences, Internet Broadcasting offers scalable publishing solutions that power digital growth and strengthen consumer relationships. Internet Broadcasting's solutions include an innovative SaaS-based digital publishing platform, original and syndicated content, and one of the largest digital advertising agencies in the media space that provides full life-cycle advertising and sales operations solutions. Internet Broadcasting has had a long-term focus on serving local television companies with award-winning websites and services. Leading media companies such as Hearst Television, Turner Broadcasting and Post-Newsweek Stations are clients.
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2015
Board Member
Jan 2015
We provide a turnkey enterprise SaaS contact center solution integrating a wide range of asynchronous communication channels in a single workflow and UI enabling bot & human collaboration. Channels we support include: WhatsApp, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, SMS, RCS, ABC and modern live chat SDKs for In-Web and In-App messaging. Our clients are customer centric enterprises such as Zappos, Emirates Airlines, Air Canada, Engie, AXA, MTN, Noon, citizenM hotels, Netflix and Slack to name a few.
2013
Board Member
Jun 2013
InsideView helps B2B companies drive rapid growth with the only platform that empowers business leaders to quickly and confidently make go-to-market decisions. As the market shifts from volume-based to targeted sales and marketing strategies, businesses turn to InsideView to help them identify new market opportunities, align sales and marketing execution, and optimize performance. InsideViews Targeting Intelligence platform, built using artificial intelligence (AI), delivers the industrys most relevant, reliable data trusted by the world’s leading B2B companies. PLAN. EXECUTE. WIN. For more information, follow @InsideView on Twitter or visit www.insideview.com.
Board Member
Jun 2013
Vormetric Data Security was acquired by Thales in March 2016. Thales e-Security is the leader in advanced data security solutions and services, delivering trust wherever information is created, shared or stored. We ensure that company and government data is secure and trusted in any environment – on premise, in the cloud, in data centers and in big data environments – without sacrificing business agility. Security doesn’t just reduce risk, it’s an enabler of the digital initiatives that now permeate our daily lives – digital money, e-identities, healthcare, connected cars and with the internet of things (IoT) even household devices. Thales provides everything an organization needs to protect and manage its data, identities and intellectual property and meet regulatory compliance – through encryption, advanced key management, tokenization, privileged user control and meeting the highest standards of certification for high assurance solutions. Security professionals around the globe rely on Thales to confidently accelerate their organization’s digital transformation. For more information visit www.thalesesecurity.com Follow us on Twitter - www.twitter.com/thalesesecurity Visit us on YouTube - www.youtube.com/ThalesEsecurity
Board Member
Jan 2013
First in Identity - Janrain is the first choice of global enterprises for mission-critical customer identity and access management (CIAM) needs. The largest brands in the world trust us to manage their most valuable assets: their customers'​ identities. Founded in 2002, Janrain pioneered Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) and is widely recognized by industry analysts as a global CIAM leader. The Janrain Identity Cloud® provides identity management, security and activation solutions that enable seamless and safe customer experiences across their digitally connected world, while providing enterprise organizations with deep customer insights. Janrain’s identity capabilities include social and traditional login and registration, single sign-on, customer profile data storage and management, customer segments, customer insights and engagement solutions. The company manages 1.5 billion digital identities for 3,400 brands, including Pfizer, Samsung, Whole Foods, Fox News, Philips, McDonald’s and Dr Pepper. Janrain is based in Portland, Oregon, with offices in London, Paris and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.janrain.com and follow @janrain.
2012
Board Observer
Jan 2012
BlueKai serves as a staple of the Oracle Data Cloud, as well as the Oracle Marketing Cloud. To learn more follow the Oracle Marketing Cloud page on LinkedIn, or visit our website at: http://www.oracle.com/marketingcloud
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