John Larson

Tech Founder & Investor, Advisor, Board Member: Agentic AI, SaaS, Comm Platforms

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
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Seed Investor
Feb 2025
At Anyreach, we’re on a mission to transform the way businesses communicate with their customers. Our advanced AI text and voice agents don’t just talk—they understand. With lifelike voices and human-level intelligence, they deliver fast, accurate, and personalized support that feels as natural as a conversation with your best team member. Why Anyreach? - Lifelike AI Voice & Text Agents: Say goodbye to robotic responses. Our agents replicate the tone, clarity, and empathy of real human interaction. - Action-Driven AI: Beyond just answering questions, our agents seamlessly integrate with 300+ platforms to take action—automating workflows, resolving issues, and improving customer satisfaction in real time. - Scalability Made Simple: Whether it’s handling thousands of inquiries simultaneously or operating across time zones, Anyreach grows with your business needs. From customer support to operational efficiency, our AI is here to help your business scale smarter, not harder. 💬 Ready to make your customer interactions seamless and your operations more efficient? Let’s connect!
Advisor & Investor
Jan 2021
Authvia is the conversational commerce platform enabling seamless and secure transactions between businesses and consumers. Our patented TXT2PAY® technology makes every transaction easier, faster, and more secure: 1 Send a payment request via message. 2 Customer pays via secure code. And it’s done. For businesses, Authvia means faster revenue, airtight compliance, and happier customers. For consumers, Authvia makes paying bills, signing documents, and bypassing checkout lines as easy as sending a text. And because commerce doesn’t stop at payments, Authvia is built to scale for every transaction need. It’s done via Authvia.
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2025
Seed Investor
Feb 2025
At Anyreach, we’re on a mission to transform the way businesses communicate with their customers. Our advanced AI text and voice agents don’t just talk—they understand. With lifelike voices and human-level intelligence, they deliver fast, accurate, and personalized support that feels as natural as a conversation with your best team member. Why Anyreach? - Lifelike AI Voice & Text Agents: Say goodbye to robotic responses. Our agents replicate the tone, clarity, and empathy of real human interaction. - Action-Driven AI: Beyond just answering questions, our agents seamlessly integrate with 300+ platforms to take action—automating workflows, resolving issues, and improving customer satisfaction in real time. - Scalability Made Simple: Whether it’s handling thousands of inquiries simultaneously or operating across time zones, Anyreach grows with your business needs. From customer support to operational efficiency, our AI is here to help your business scale smarter, not harder. 💬 Ready to make your customer interactions seamless and your operations more efficient? Let’s connect!
2024
Board Member and Investor
Jun 2024
Ambassador powers the Feedback Economy. With HiroAI at the core, we turn customer signals into predictive insights and automated engagement across referrals, loyalty, incentives, affiliate programs, and multi-channel communication. Built for enterprises and fast-growing brands, HiroAI delivers real-time feedback intelligence, automated workflows, Salesforce-native integration, secure Vaults & Ledgers, and fraud prevention — all in one platform designed to grow your entire customer base.
2021
Advisor & Investor
Jan 2021
Authvia is the conversational commerce platform enabling seamless and secure transactions between businesses and consumers. Our patented TXT2PAY® technology makes every transaction easier, faster, and more secure: 1 Send a payment request via message. 2 Customer pays via secure code. And it’s done. For businesses, Authvia means faster revenue, airtight compliance, and happier customers. For consumers, Authvia makes paying bills, signing documents, and bypassing checkout lines as easy as sending a text. And because commerce doesn’t stop at payments, Authvia is built to scale for every transaction need. It’s done via Authvia.
2017
Co-founder & Chief Business Officer (Acquired by Twilio for $850M)
Apr 2017
Zipwhip is the leading business-texting platform in North America, helping more than 30,000 organizations engage their customers and drive growth through texting. Zipwhip has text-enabled more than 5 million landline and toll-free phone numbers so that businesses can reach their customers immediately, on the channel they prefer. Organizations can text-enable their business lines in minutes and seamlessly fit texting into their existing workflows using Zipwhip’s out-of-the-box software or customizable APIs. And with the most direct carrier connections of any texting provider, Zipwhip offers the fastest and most reliable message delivery in the industry so you know your customers get the message every time. Your customers are only a text away: https://www.zipwhip.com. www.twitter.com/zipwhip www.facebook.com/zipwhip www.instagram.com/zipwhip
Investment activity
2021–2025 · 3 investments
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