Jim Curry

Co-Founder, BuildGroup

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2021
VC🌍 United States
12
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Investor and Board Member
Dec 2021
Meet Casetext, the leaders of innovation in legal AI since 2013 and the developers of CoCounsel, the worlds first AI legal assistant. CoCounsel completes document review, legal research memos, deposition preparation, and contract analysis in minutes—with results lawyers can trust. Our team of top litigators, reference attorneys, PhD data scientists, and leading AI engineers apply cutting-edge AI to the law to create solutions that enable attorneys to provide more efficient, higher-quality representation to more clients, gain a competitive advantage, and increase access to justice for everyone. Today, over 10,000 law firms—from solos and small practices to more than 40 Am Law 200 firms—rely on Casetext to elevate the quality of their practice. For more visit www.casetext.com.
Investor
Nov 2021
Pod Foods is a logistics-enabled, data-powered B2B marketplace for wholesale food distribution
mid stageWholesale
Investor
Sep 2021
project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. We optimize the movement of products globally, delivering better resiliency, sustainability, and value for our customers. As the supply chain connective tissue, we operate the most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that tracks more than 1 billion shipments annually for the world’s leading brands. Now the undisputed leader in the market, project44 has achieved the following recognition: 1️⃣ Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2️⃣ Top ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ customer ratings on G2 3️⃣ Ranked #1 on FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 for 2022 4️⃣ Named a Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights’ Voice of the Customer 5️⃣ Achieved Tech Unicorn Status in June 2021 6️⃣ Raised $420M in Series F Funding led by Goldman Sachs, Thoma Bravo, & TPG project44 is the world’s most robust multimodal network, operating in over 170 countries and more than 20 languages. Our approach to global and multimodal connectivity enables supply chain and logistic professionals to track inventory throughout their entire journey, including: 🚚 Truckload 🚚 LTL 🚚 Volume LTL 🌊 Ocean 🚂 Rail ✈️ Air 📦 Final Mile Headquartered in Chicago, project44 is comprised of a diverse, fast-growing, and global workforce with offices in Amsterdam, Austin, San Francisco, France, Poland, Germany, Brazil, Mexico City, India, and Colombia. Ready to transform your supply chain? Click on the LEARN MORE button ☝ above ☝ Or, if you’re eager to be part of a winning team that works together to solve the world’s most complex supply chain challenges, click Jobs to view our open roles.
Investor
Jun 2021
Gembah’s platform connects you with leading Product Designers, Manufacturers, and Supply Chain Experts from across the globe to streamline and simplify how you get your products made. Gembah empowers and enables product innovation. We are democratizing and demystifying the product creation process by helping entrepreneurs, e-commerce sellers and small-to-midsize businesses research, design, and manufacture products. At Gembah, we understand the resources required to successfully launch a new product present a significant challenge for most businesses. From research and design to sourcing and vetting overseas manufacturers, there are many hurdles on the path to bringing a new product to market. Gembah’s end-to-end solution was created with these challenges in mind. Our team of experts are an extension of our clients’ teams, guiding them step-by-step, regardless of where they are along the process. Gembah’s team is comprised of specialists, leading product designers, and engineers. In addition, Gembah works with an exclusive network of vetted factories in China, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Mexico ASEAN and Eastern Europe.
Investor and Board Member
Dec 2020
Flowspace is an ecommerce fulfillment platform helping brands meet their customers’ post-purchase expectations in the real world. The company’s cloud-based software, integrated within a network of +150 strategically located fulfillment centers nationwide, enables fast, affordable, omnichannel fulfillment. With a single point of integration, the Flowspace platform empowers brand operators with the real-time visibility and tools needed to control ecommerce operations.
Investor and Board Observer
Oct 2020
X-Mode is creating the new standard for accuracy and transparency in location data, bridging gaps in the industry by building the worlds largest, most accurate, first-party privacy-conscious location data panel at scale. Powered by the XDK -- X-Mode’s industry-leading location data SDK -- this new standard will improve the entire location data ecosystem, and allow companies to develop disruptive tools built on a foundation of quality data. Whether it is through their suite of popular safety apps, the solutions they offer to data sellers and licensors, or their newly-launched social impact initiative Picket, the company is dedicated to creating a more efficient, just, and sustainable world, and constantly aims to power innovation with quality location.
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2020
Cybrary is the premier cybersecurity professional development platform, providing the collective knowledge of the industry’s top experts and leading organizations to equip IT and security professionals with both the knowledge and skills to achieve their career goals. Recognized as an industry pioneer and innovator since 2015, Cybrary has grown its cyber-focused community to nearly 3 million users, including multiple Fortune 100 companies. To get more information and learn more about Cybrary, visit www.cybrary.it.
Investor and Board Member
Jun 2020
DigniFi is a FinTech company that’s been in business over a decade and is a leader in the world of transportation. DigniFi set out to redefine vehicle financing by removing the barriers everyday people encounter. Today, we offer access to fast and flexible financing options that help customers get what they need now and help businesses grow revenue down the line. We put the application process in the customer’s hands where they need it most – at vehicle dealers and independent repair shops across the country. From urgent vehicle repairs and services to accessories and products, our process provides a contactless process and on-the-spot decisions to get customers rolling (or riding). We’re growing fast and always on the lookout for people who want to be disruptive in the automotive financial space. We offer a collaborative and respectful work environment and are entirely remote with leaders around the country. DigniFi is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and an inclusive culture.
Investor
Jun 2018
Convey is now project44! Acquired by project44 in September, 2021 our last mile and delivery management solutions combine real-time visibility, post-purchase experiences, and advanced insights and analytics to create a solution uniquely capable of perfecting last mile delivery. With delivery expectations skyrocketing, brands cannot leave the critical last mile to chance. Convey’s Delivery Experience Management platform combines real-time visibility, post-purchase experiences, and advanced insights and analytics to create a solution uniquely capable of perfecting last mile delivery. Supply chain and customer experience leaders including Neiman Marcus, Jet.com, and Eddie Bauer rely on Convey’s software and expertise to take action to ensure shoppers get their orders how and when they want, resulting in happier, loyal customers and a lower cost to serve. Founded in 2013, Convey is backed by Silverton Partners, Techstars Venture Group, RPM Ventures and based in Austin, Texas.
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Mar 2015
Anaconda is built to advance AI with open source at scale, giving builders and organizations the confidence to increase productivity, and save time, spend and risk associated with open source. 95% of the Fortune 500 including Panasonic, AmTrust, Booz Allen Hamilton and over 50 million users rely on the value The Anaconda AI Platform delivers through a centralized approach to sourcing, securing, building, and deploying AI. With 21 billion downloads and growing, Anaconda has established itself as the gold standard for Python, data science, and AI and the enterprise-ready solution of choice for AI innovation. Anaconda is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners. Learn more at https://www.anaconda.com.
Founding Board Member
2012
OpenStack is an open source software project Hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation for creating private and public clouds. Over 300 OpenStack-powered public cloud data centers and thousands of private clouds at a scale of more than 40 million physical cores span the world. Since launching in 2010, OpenStack has become one of the top four most active open source projects. What OpenStack software does: OpenStack is an open source cloud platform that provides APIs to orchestrate bare metal, virtual machine and container resources on a single network. The same OpenStack code powers a global network of public and private clouds, backed by the largest ecosystem of technology providers, to enable cost savings, control and portability. Learn more at http://www.openstack.org/software. Why open matters: All of the code for OpenStack is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. Anyone can run it, build on it, or submit changes back to the project. We strongly believe that an open development model is the only way to foster badly-needed cloud standards, remove the fear of proprietary lock-in for cloud customers, and create a large ecosystem that spans cloud providers. OpenStack Users: OpenStack has thousands of users worldwide across industries including financial services, telecom, retail, manufacturing, internet and ecommerce companies. Find OpenStack user stories at http://www.openstack.org/users. For more information and to join the community, visit www.OpenStack.org/join and join the conversation in our OpenStack LinkedIn Group. Join us at events: Each year, the OpenInfra Foundation and community members around the world host global Summits and regional events to help support and grow the community. Learn more at openstack.org/community/events.
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2021
Investor and Board Member
Dec 2021
Meet Casetext, the leaders of innovation in legal AI since 2013 and the developers of CoCounsel, the worlds first AI legal assistant. CoCounsel completes document review, legal research memos, deposition preparation, and contract analysis in minutes—with results lawyers can trust. Our team of top litigators, reference attorneys, PhD data scientists, and leading AI engineers apply cutting-edge AI to the law to create solutions that enable attorneys to provide more efficient, higher-quality representation to more clients, gain a competitive advantage, and increase access to justice for everyone. Today, over 10,000 law firms—from solos and small practices to more than 40 Am Law 200 firms—rely on Casetext to elevate the quality of their practice. For more visit www.casetext.com.
Investor
Nov 2021
Pod Foods is a logistics-enabled, data-powered B2B marketplace for wholesale food distribution
mid stageWholesale
Investor
Sep 2021
project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. We optimize the movement of products globally, delivering better resiliency, sustainability, and value for our customers. As the supply chain connective tissue, we operate the most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that tracks more than 1 billion shipments annually for the world’s leading brands. Now the undisputed leader in the market, project44 has achieved the following recognition: 1️⃣ Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2️⃣ Top ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ customer ratings on G2 3️⃣ Ranked #1 on FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 for 2022 4️⃣ Named a Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights’ Voice of the Customer 5️⃣ Achieved Tech Unicorn Status in June 2021 6️⃣ Raised $420M in Series F Funding led by Goldman Sachs, Thoma Bravo, & TPG project44 is the world’s most robust multimodal network, operating in over 170 countries and more than 20 languages. Our approach to global and multimodal connectivity enables supply chain and logistic professionals to track inventory throughout their entire journey, including: 🚚 Truckload 🚚 LTL 🚚 Volume LTL 🌊 Ocean 🚂 Rail ✈️ Air 📦 Final Mile Headquartered in Chicago, project44 is comprised of a diverse, fast-growing, and global workforce with offices in Amsterdam, Austin, San Francisco, France, Poland, Germany, Brazil, Mexico City, India, and Colombia. Ready to transform your supply chain? Click on the LEARN MORE button ☝ above ☝ Or, if you’re eager to be part of a winning team that works together to solve the world’s most complex supply chain challenges, click Jobs to view our open roles.
Investor
Jun 2021
Gembah’s platform connects you with leading Product Designers, Manufacturers, and Supply Chain Experts from across the globe to streamline and simplify how you get your products made. Gembah empowers and enables product innovation. We are democratizing and demystifying the product creation process by helping entrepreneurs, e-commerce sellers and small-to-midsize businesses research, design, and manufacture products. At Gembah, we understand the resources required to successfully launch a new product present a significant challenge for most businesses. From research and design to sourcing and vetting overseas manufacturers, there are many hurdles on the path to bringing a new product to market. Gembah’s end-to-end solution was created with these challenges in mind. Our team of experts are an extension of our clients’ teams, guiding them step-by-step, regardless of where they are along the process. Gembah’s team is comprised of specialists, leading product designers, and engineers. In addition, Gembah works with an exclusive network of vetted factories in China, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Mexico ASEAN and Eastern Europe.
2020
Investor and Board Member
Dec 2020
Flowspace is an ecommerce fulfillment platform helping brands meet their customers’ post-purchase expectations in the real world. The company’s cloud-based software, integrated within a network of +150 strategically located fulfillment centers nationwide, enables fast, affordable, omnichannel fulfillment. With a single point of integration, the Flowspace platform empowers brand operators with the real-time visibility and tools needed to control ecommerce operations.
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