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Board Observer
Mar 2022
Fetch, Americas Rewards App, empowers consumers to Live Rewarded and helps brands create lifelong customers through the power of Fetch Points.
Fetch has sweeping visibility into what consumers buy, capturing more than $179 billion worth of transactions annually using cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. To date, Fetch users have submitted more than 5 billion receipts and earned more than $1 billion in rewards.
The app is available to download on the App Store and Google Play Store and has more than 6 million five-star reviews from happy Fetchers.
Board Member
Mar 2016
Kargo creates memorable experiences for advertisers that go beyond the first impression to captivate consumer attention. With its suite of exclusive omnichannel advertising solutions, Kargo helps leading brands drive meaningful customer connections across mobile, social, CTV and the open web. With a focus on performance, Kargo helps the world’s largest advertisers achieve incremental brand lift and higher returns on ad spend. For publishers, Kargo’s proprietary platform maximizes revenue per impression through unique creative and targeting solutions.
The key to our success is our people. We’ve built a community that values teamwork, is not afraid to take chances and relentlessly strives to disrupt the industry and stand out from the crowd. Diversity is fundamental to the Kargo culture as we celebrate and embrace our differences in our inclusive workplace. Founded in 2003, Kargo is headquartered in New York with offices across the globe.
Investor
May 2015
Mic is a digital news company for society’s changemakers, who most influence and impact the world.
Board Member
Jan 2015
nToggle delivers heightened efficiency and transparency for buyers and sellers amidst the rapid rise of programmatic advertising. Its algorithm-driven software platform helps supply and demand partners manage the ever expanding bid stream. nToggle’s big data platform “toggles” real time bidding requests across all digital media utilizing the latest analytical and machine learning techniques to optimally match supply and demand.
Board Member
Sep 2013
Quantifind helps some of the world’s biggest banks catch money laundering and fraud. Quantifind also works with government agencies to use the same platform to uncover criminal networks and combat election tampering. Unlike other players in this space, Quantifind delivers results as software-as-a-service (SaaS) with consumer-grade user experiences.
Quantifind is a data science technology company whose AI platform uncovers signals of risk across disparate and unstructured text sources. In financial crimes risk management, Quantifind’s solution uniquely combines internal financial institution data with public domain data to assess risk in the context of Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Fraud Risk Management, and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) processes. Today these compliance processes are burdened by ever-increasing regulatory responsibilities and an expectation of frictionless transactions. Legacy technologies demand increasingly more human resources as the operations expand; Quantifind’s solution offers a way to cut through the inefficiency and enhance effectiveness simultaneously.
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Board Observer
Jul 2013
ZypTV is the programmatic platform for media buyers connecting streaming TV advertisers with their local audiences across all screens. Its platform is leveraged by local media companies, media buying agencies, and brands that want to target local audiences at scale.
Board Member
Jun 2013
GumGum is the contextual-first technology leader transforming digital advertising with AI-powered, non-invasive data and media solutions. We champion effective advertising that uplifts and respects consumers. Our proprietary Contextual, Attention, and Creative solutions create the perfect match between a brand and a consumer in the right moment and mindset. Founded in 2008, GumGum is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and operates in 19+ markets.
Board Observer
Sep 2012
GoPro helps the world to capture and share itself in immersive and exciting ways. We are a force for positivity, celebrating all things awesome while inspiring people to pursue their passions.
Founded in 2002 by Nick Woodman, a photo and video enthusiast in search of a better way to film himself and his friends surfing, GoPro has grown into a relentlessly innovative brand loved around the world for its insanely versatile and enabling products.
We are GoPro and we love what we build.
Board Member
Sep 2012
Zefr is the leading global technology company enabling responsible marketing for social walled garden environments.
Investor/Adviser
May 2012
Tubular Labs, the social video intelligence company, is the only solution to provide a unified view of the content, interests and behaviors of audiences across YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, and more.
With people presence across the United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Singapore, Tubular powers agencies, brands and media companies to make efficient decisions that grow their business. Tubular uses AI, machine learning and human analysis to see what no one else sees across 7.5 billion videos (and counting), more than 100,000 categories and over 15,000 creators. Trusted by some of the biggest brands in the world, Tubular is the only company that is a member of the YouTube Measurement Program and a Facebook Measurement Partner.
To learn more, visit: https://tubularlabs.com/request-demo/
Board Member
Jan 2012
Whisper is building the media company of the future. Each month, over 250 million people across the web consume Whisper stories, videos and posts - which showcase authentic, eye opening perspectives from Whisper users around the globe. Whisper stories and videos are powered by Eliot, Whisper’s AI storytelling technology. Whisper’s mobile app is the largest platform where people share real thoughts and feelings, without identities.
Whisper is backed by venture investors including Sequoia Capital, Tencent, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital and Shasta Ventures. The Whisper app is available on iOS and Android.
Board Member
Nov 2011
PlaceIQ is a leading data and technology provider that powers critical business and marketing decisions with location data, analytics and insights.
An early industry pioneer, PlaceIQ has become the standard for fueling better decisions for marketers, analysts and publishers through powerful location-based consumer insights, real-world measurement and attribution.
With PlaceIQ, companies can uncover opportunities within the consumer journey by learning about and connecting with location-based audiences, measuring real-world ROI, and applying insights that drive intelligent marketing and successful business outcomes.
Investor/Adviser
Oct 2011
SessionM is a customer engagement and loyalty platform empowering the world’s most innovative brands to forge stronger and more profitable customer relationships. The platform scales for the enterprise, globally.
SessionM was acquired by Mastercard in October 2019, and is now a part of Mastercard Services portfolio.
For more information on SessionM, visit https://www.mastercardservices.com/en/sessionm.
Board Member
Sep 2011
Jumptap, Inc. is the leading unified audience platform, taking a programmatic and mobile-first approach to reaching audiences. Jumptap reaches over 218 million mobile users in the U.S. and over 439 million mobile users worldwide. It has built an audience profile store with over 100 million unique, data-rich profiles, of which over 44 million can be reached across screens. Jumptap powers its audience-centric advertising through industry-first partnerships with more than 20 third-party data providers, and garners the highest yield for its 74,000 mobile sites and apps.
Website: www.jumptap.com
Blog: www.jumptap.com/blog
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Jumptap
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Jumptap
Ad Gallery: www.jumptap.com/advertisers/ad-gallery/#all
Board Member
Jan 2011
Swoop empowers the world’s leading pharmaceutical brands to better-educate patients about disease states and the therapies that could remedy their conditions, as well as enable them to become active participants in their treatment journey. Swoop’s HIPAA-certified and NAI-accredited system of engagement uncovers unique target audiences for precisely activating patient populations and their healthcare ecosystems through cross-channel marketing strategies. By utilizing artificial intelligence, machine learning and evolutionary computation in conjunction with a real world data universe of over 300 million de-identified patients and 65 billion anonymized social determinants of health signals, Swoops segments are superior in audience quality, lead to optimal conversion and drive increase Rx lift.
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2022
Board Observer
Mar 2022
Fetch, Americas Rewards App, empowers consumers to Live Rewarded and helps brands create lifelong customers through the power of Fetch Points.
Fetch has sweeping visibility into what consumers buy, capturing more than $179 billion worth of transactions annually using cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. To date, Fetch users have submitted more than 5 billion receipts and earned more than $1 billion in rewards.
The app is available to download on the App Store and Google Play Store and has more than 6 million five-star reviews from happy Fetchers.
2016
Managing Partner
Jun 2016
Archer Venture Capital is an investment firm and start-up advisory platform for entrepreneurs. Archer’s principals have a long history of identifying talented, passionate entrepreneurs who deliver category-leading products and solutions to sizable markets. We work closely with entrepreneurs and make it our joint mission to build disruptive companies from the ground up. Our unique and flexible financing solutions allow us to provide capital when and how its needed.
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Mar 2016
Kargo creates memorable experiences for advertisers that go beyond the first impression to captivate consumer attention. With its suite of exclusive omnichannel advertising solutions, Kargo helps leading brands drive meaningful customer connections across mobile, social, CTV and the open web. With a focus on performance, Kargo helps the world’s largest advertisers achieve incremental brand lift and higher returns on ad spend. For publishers, Kargo’s proprietary platform maximizes revenue per impression through unique creative and targeting solutions.
The key to our success is our people. We’ve built a community that values teamwork, is not afraid to take chances and relentlessly strives to disrupt the industry and stand out from the crowd. Diversity is fundamental to the Kargo culture as we celebrate and embrace our differences in our inclusive workplace. Founded in 2003, Kargo is headquartered in New York with offices across the globe.
2015
Investor
May 2015
Mic is a digital news company for society’s changemakers, who most influence and impact the world.
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