J.P. Whelan

President, King Energy

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2015
Angel investor🌍 United States
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Board Member
Jun 2015
Quri by Trax is a retail intelligence and analytics company. We give consumer brands and retailers the visibility to see what their shoppers are seeing and the analytics to immediately correct the problems they find. Quri by Trax uses crowdsourcing, via its own nationwide force of consumers, to measure store-by-store execution gaps so you can immediately alert your field team to take corrective action. As a result, Quri by Trax helps drive much better shopping experiences for shoppers and higher in-store sales and ROI for manufacturers.
Board member
2013
InvestCloud, a global leader in wealth technology, aspires to enable a smarter financial future. Driving the digital transformation of the wealth management industry, the company serves a broad array of clients globally, including Wealth and Asset Managers, Wirehouses, Banks, RIAs, and Insurers. In terms of scale, the company’s clients represent more than 40 percent of the $132 trillion of total assets globally. As a leader in delivering personalization and scale across advisory programs, including unified managed accounts (UMA) and separately managed accounts (SMA), the company is committed to the success of its clients. By equipping and enabling advisors and their clients with connected technology, enhanced intelligence, and inspired experiences, InvestCloud delivers leading digital wealth management and financial planning solutions, complemented by a dynamic data warehouse, which scale across the complete wealth continuum. In 2024, InvestCloud was named a CNBC World’s Top Fintech Company, a proof point of the company’s commitment to innovation and client success. Headquartered in the United States, InvestCloud serves clients around the world.
Board Observer
2012
UserTesting is fundamentally changing the way digital products and experiences are built and delivered by helping organizations get insights from customers–from creation through execution. Built on top of a world-class, on-demand sourcing engine, customers can receive fast, high quality, opt-in feedback from both our proprietary and partner-sourced audience networks around the world. UserTesting offers the industrys most comprehensive experience research solution. Unlike approaches that track user behavior or collect customer listening data on live experiences, then try to infer what that data means, UserTesting enables companies to get input earlier in the process, helping to reduce guesswork, and bring experience data to life with human insight.
Board Member
2007
Shopatron is the world’s leading provider of cloud-based, eCommerce order management solutions. Our patented Shopatron Order Exchange allows manufacturers and multi-channel retailers to seamlessly leverage the available inventory of every retail storefront and distribution center when fulfilling online orders. Unlike legacy order management software or custom-built solutions, Shopatron makes it easy and affordable to deploy advanced capabilities like in-store pickup, ship-from-store, inventory lookup and vendor drop-ship. With Shopatron, retail channels join forces to increase sales, turn inventory, and deliver a superior purchase experience to online shoppers.
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2015
Board Member
Jun 2015
Quri by Trax is a retail intelligence and analytics company. We give consumer brands and retailers the visibility to see what their shoppers are seeing and the analytics to immediately correct the problems they find. Quri by Trax uses crowdsourcing, via its own nationwide force of consumers, to measure store-by-store execution gaps so you can immediately alert your field team to take corrective action. As a result, Quri by Trax helps drive much better shopping experiences for shoppers and higher in-store sales and ROI for manufacturers.
2013
Board member
2013
InvestCloud, a global leader in wealth technology, aspires to enable a smarter financial future. Driving the digital transformation of the wealth management industry, the company serves a broad array of clients globally, including Wealth and Asset Managers, Wirehouses, Banks, RIAs, and Insurers. In terms of scale, the company’s clients represent more than 40 percent of the $132 trillion of total assets globally. As a leader in delivering personalization and scale across advisory programs, including unified managed accounts (UMA) and separately managed accounts (SMA), the company is committed to the success of its clients. By equipping and enabling advisors and their clients with connected technology, enhanced intelligence, and inspired experiences, InvestCloud delivers leading digital wealth management and financial planning solutions, complemented by a dynamic data warehouse, which scale across the complete wealth continuum. In 2024, InvestCloud was named a CNBC World’s Top Fintech Company, a proof point of the company’s commitment to innovation and client success. Headquartered in the United States, InvestCloud serves clients around the world.
2012
Board Observer
2012
UserTesting is fundamentally changing the way digital products and experiences are built and delivered by helping organizations get insights from customers–from creation through execution. Built on top of a world-class, on-demand sourcing engine, customers can receive fast, high quality, opt-in feedback from both our proprietary and partner-sourced audience networks around the world. UserTesting offers the industrys most comprehensive experience research solution. Unlike approaches that track user behavior or collect customer listening data on live experiences, then try to infer what that data means, UserTesting enables companies to get input earlier in the process, helping to reduce guesswork, and bring experience data to life with human insight.
2010
Board Observer
2010
RepairClinic.com® makes fixing things easy for millions of people. Founded in 1999, it’s North America’s most popular, trusted online store with replacement parts for major household appliances, outdoor power equipment and heating and cooling equipment. Free repair resources including 5,000 how-to videos empower people to fix appliances, outdoor power equipment and heating and cooling equipment on their own. One million parts for 160 brands are stocked at its 86,000-square-foot facility in Canton, Michigan. Do-it-yourselfers also appreciate its generous, no-hassle 365 Days. Period.™ return policy. In-stock parts are guaranteed to ship the same business day. Visit RepairClinic.com for more information.
2007
Board Member
2007
Shopatron is the world’s leading provider of cloud-based, eCommerce order management solutions. Our patented Shopatron Order Exchange allows manufacturers and multi-channel retailers to seamlessly leverage the available inventory of every retail storefront and distribution center when fulfilling online orders. Unlike legacy order management software or custom-built solutions, Shopatron makes it easy and affordable to deploy advanced capabilities like in-store pickup, ship-from-store, inventory lookup and vendor drop-ship. With Shopatron, retail channels join forces to increase sales, turn inventory, and deliver a superior purchase experience to online shoppers.
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