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Board Member
Aug 2021
LOYAL, a leading publisher consolidator in the ~$700 billion global mobile apps ecosystem, is a trusted app community empowering small and micro-businesses with proven economic growth strategies.
Founded in early 2020, Loyal is creating a premier platform for a scaled consolidator of mobile apps and spearheading the consolidation and growth of quality app publishers.
We seek to uplift micro-businesses & support small publishers and developers to level the playing field and compete against the tech Goliaths yet Loyal is not just an app consolidator. We are passionate about building a platform for a trusted, global app community, celebrating and advancing the innovation of small developers and publishers around the world.
The mobile app economy has been one of the greatest wealth creators ever and we are taking it to the next level by creating strength in numbers. We are bringing together a portfolio of exceptional apps and providing the back-end technology and human resources necessary to accelerate their growth trajectory (e.g. legal, accounting, marketing, engineering, monetization, consumer acquisition and engagement, analytics).
Due to competitive and regulatory headwinds, as well as operating system restrictions, the market is squeezing revenue opportunities for small developers and publisher businesses. who need to either grow faster or risk failure. Loyal offers developers and publishers two pathways for their own business and professional success:
- When an app publisher sells to Loyal, they achieve their desired exit and can pursue new ventures.
- When an app publisher chooses to join our community of great mobile app content providers, they can remain as key members of a larger organization, and subsequently achieve the scaled benefits of a large publisher to maximize revenues through subscriptions, advertising, cross promotion, in-app payments, affiliate, sponsorships, and other monetization pathways.
Board Member
Jul 2019
Haus is on a mission to make finding the right home financing hassle-free. We look beyond the rate, incorporating your unique homeownership goals. With all your options in one place, including traditional refis and Haus’s own co-investing model for ownership, you can discover, compare, and apply the easy way—online. To learn more about how Haus is changing the way people finance their homes, visit www.haus.com.
Board Member
May 2018
Paystands on a mission to create a more open financial system, starting with B2B payments. Using blockchain and cloud technology, we pioneered Payments-as-a-Service to digitize and automate the entire cash lifecycle. Our software makes it possible to digitize receivables, automate processing, reduce time-to-cash, eliminate transaction fees, and enable new revenue.
We asked ourselves: "What would payments look like if we recreated them today from scratch?" We imagined it would look more like this, so we built it:
- No transaction fees
- Automated receivables and payables
- 100% paperless
- Real-time cash recognition
- Flat monthly pricing
- Instant Reconciliation
- No markups or interchange fees
- Flexible integrations
Contact us today to make payments the easiest part of running your business.
Board Member
Oct 2017
Jackpocket is on a mission to create a more convenient, fun, and responsible way to order lottery tickets right from your phone.
We are the first licensed third-party app in the U.S. that provides an easy, secure way to order official state lottery tickets.
Lottery fans use Jackpocket to place orders for their favorite games, check lottery results, join lottery pools for better odds, and get automatic alerts when they win.
Over $450 million in lottery prizes to date have been won on Jackpocket, including a $9.4 million prize in NJ—the biggest mobile gaming win in U.S history.
Jackpocket is available in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington DC, and West Virginia, with many new markets on the horizon.
WERE HIRING! Come join our fun-loving, dedicated crew. View all open positions at: https://jackpocket.com/careers.
Must be 18+, 19+ in NE, 21+ in AZ. Gambling Problem? 1-800-GAMBLER or visit https://bit.ly/3UDCXf3
Board Member
Sep 2016
FreeAgent is a complete CRM platform with robust work management. We help teams get everything in one place, work more collaboratively to get more done, and track and improve performance.
Designed for the new world of work, remote teams thrive with complete visibility into day-to-day activity, real-time collaboration, and powerful code-free customization. By eliminating time spent searching for information and manual entry, FreeAgent empowers leaders to optimize sales, marketing, customer success, project management and more -- so every employee has workdays full of impact.
Board Member
Jun 2015
We organize and simplify the ordering process so restaurants and their suppliers can save time and money.
The BlueCart app and website are designed to help save both restaurants and vendors time and money, without sacrificing the relationships that keep the industry running. We do this by streamlining and organizing the ordering process, so that restaurants can place orders with all their suppliers at once, and vendors can receive those orders in simple, real-time forms. Our platform allows for customized prices and terms, so that even as we eliminate the repetitive, late-night phone calls, blurry faxes, and choppy voicemails, individual sales relationships arent sacrificed along the way. On top of all of that, we provide real-time statistics and graphs that help businesses easily analyze their spending.
Board Member
Dec 2010
Kabbage from American Express has innovated a data and technology platform to help American Express move “Beyond the Card” and provide U.S. small businesses digital cash flow solutions, including online business checking accounts with 1.3% APY on balances up to $500,000, online payments to get paid faster, business analytics to forecast and track cash flow 24/7, and flexible lines of credit up to $250,000. Kabbage uses real-time data and automation to provide an integrated suite of financial tools empowering small businesses to spend less time on their books and more time on building thriving businesses.
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/kabbageinc
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/KabbageInc
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/kabbageinc/
Learn more about Kabbage:
https://www.kabbage.com/why-kabbage
Board Member
Sep 2010
Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With 22 offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Verve is a subsidiary of Media and Games Invest (MGI).
Board Member
Dec 2006
Coupa is the leader in AI-native total spend management. Using its trusted, community-generated, $8 trillion dataset, Coupa brings autonomous AI agents, a network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers, and leading apps together on one unified platform to seamlessly automate the buying process and connect to customers in a whole new way. With Coupa, you’ll make margins multiply™.
Board Member
Feb 2005
The FreedomPay Commerce Platform is the best way for merchants to simplify complex payment environments. Validated by the PCI Security Standards Council for Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) along with EMV, Tokenization, Contactless and DCC capabilities, global leaders in retail, hospitality, gaming, education, healthcare and financial services trust FreedomPay to deliver unmatched security and advanced value added services.
Since our launch in 2000, FreedomPay has been a pioneer in Next Level Commerce™, including mobile payments, cashless solutions, virtual and remote terminals, payment processing, intelligent analysis, routing of promotions, incentives and customer relationship management services.
As the industry's first TransAtlantic payments solution with integrations across top point-of-sale, device manufacturers and payment processors, supported by rapid API adoption, FreedomPay is driving the future of commerce and customer interaction. With offices in Philadelphia, Las Vegas and London, FreedomPay continues to make your payments faster, simpler, safer and smarter. For more information, go to www.freedompay.com.
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2021
Board Member
Aug 2021
LOYAL, a leading publisher consolidator in the ~$700 billion global mobile apps ecosystem, is a trusted app community empowering small and micro-businesses with proven economic growth strategies.
Founded in early 2020, Loyal is creating a premier platform for a scaled consolidator of mobile apps and spearheading the consolidation and growth of quality app publishers.
We seek to uplift micro-businesses & support small publishers and developers to level the playing field and compete against the tech Goliaths yet Loyal is not just an app consolidator. We are passionate about building a platform for a trusted, global app community, celebrating and advancing the innovation of small developers and publishers around the world.
The mobile app economy has been one of the greatest wealth creators ever and we are taking it to the next level by creating strength in numbers. We are bringing together a portfolio of exceptional apps and providing the back-end technology and human resources necessary to accelerate their growth trajectory (e.g. legal, accounting, marketing, engineering, monetization, consumer acquisition and engagement, analytics).
Due to competitive and regulatory headwinds, as well as operating system restrictions, the market is squeezing revenue opportunities for small developers and publisher businesses. who need to either grow faster or risk failure. Loyal offers developers and publishers two pathways for their own business and professional success:
- When an app publisher sells to Loyal, they achieve their desired exit and can pursue new ventures.
- When an app publisher chooses to join our community of great mobile app content providers, they can remain as key members of a larger organization, and subsequently achieve the scaled benefits of a large publisher to maximize revenues through subscriptions, advertising, cross promotion, in-app payments, affiliate, sponsorships, and other monetization pathways.
2020
Co-founder & General Partner
Jan 2020
Transform Capital is a late-stage VC firm investing in market-leading, high-growth SaaS and Future of Work startups. We are a conventional venture fund with one simple yet fundamental difference: We give away 50% of our personal profits to the charitable organizations that our LPs choose.
2019
Board Member
Jul 2019
Haus is on a mission to make finding the right home financing hassle-free. We look beyond the rate, incorporating your unique homeownership goals. With all your options in one place, including traditional refis and Haus’s own co-investing model for ownership, you can discover, compare, and apply the easy way—online. To learn more about how Haus is changing the way people finance their homes, visit www.haus.com.
2018
Board Member
May 2018
Paystands on a mission to create a more open financial system, starting with B2B payments. Using blockchain and cloud technology, we pioneered Payments-as-a-Service to digitize and automate the entire cash lifecycle. Our software makes it possible to digitize receivables, automate processing, reduce time-to-cash, eliminate transaction fees, and enable new revenue.
We asked ourselves: "What would payments look like if we recreated them today from scratch?" We imagined it would look more like this, so we built it:
- No transaction fees
- Automated receivables and payables
- 100% paperless
- Real-time cash recognition
- Flat monthly pricing
- Instant Reconciliation
- No markups or interchange fees
- Flexible integrations
Contact us today to make payments the easiest part of running your business.
2017
Board Member
Oct 2017
Jackpocket is on a mission to create a more convenient, fun, and responsible way to order lottery tickets right from your phone.
We are the first licensed third-party app in the U.S. that provides an easy, secure way to order official state lottery tickets.
Lottery fans use Jackpocket to place orders for their favorite games, check lottery results, join lottery pools for better odds, and get automatic alerts when they win.
Over $450 million in lottery prizes to date have been won on Jackpocket, including a $9.4 million prize in NJ—the biggest mobile gaming win in U.S history.
Jackpocket is available in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington DC, and West Virginia, with many new markets on the horizon.
WERE HIRING! Come join our fun-loving, dedicated crew. View all open positions at: https://jackpocket.com/careers.
Must be 18+, 19+ in NE, 21+ in AZ. Gambling Problem? 1-800-GAMBLER or visit https://bit.ly/3UDCXf3
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