John Surdakowski

Founder at Avex. Partnering with industry-leading brands to design, build, and optimize unified commerce experiences. Podcast Host.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2022
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Aug 2022
Increase LTV with a mobile application powered by Kin, your home for customer connection.
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Oct 2021
Inveterate powers loyalty programs for Shopify merchants that create true customer connections and go beyond just points. Rather than reward only for routine behavior, Inveterate provides value to customers on every purchase, and ultimately transforms customer behavior to spend more, more often. Customers include True Classic, Dolls Kills, Fly by Jing, Bylt, Liquid IV, Honey Love, Aura Bora, Bambu Earth, Cuts Clothing, CarnivoreSnax, Dr. Brandt, Fresh Clean Threads, Groove Life, Laundry Sauce, Rockstar Original, Sunday Swagger, and Truly Beauty.
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Oct 2021
Reinventing the digital gifting experience.
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Dec 2020
Build and scale a world-class creator program with GRIN. Thousands of industry pioneers—like SKIMS, Rhode, and GoPro—use our Creator Management platform to harness the power of influential people to drive brand awareness and growth. Together, were redefining whats possible in the creator economy.
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Oct 2020
Grow your business with a comprehensive suite of optimization, personalization, visual merchandising and SEO tools built for ecommerce. Craft experiences visually to create rich and dynamic landing pages with an intuitive visual editor and advanced merchandising features. Maximize ROI and minimize uncertainty with native A/B Testing available on all of your Shogun created pages. Personalize your site with Targeted Experiences by serving segment-specific content throughout your store. Optimize your store with Shogun.
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2026
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Feb 2026
Law firms are losing thousands of billable hours every year to administrative work that AI can handle. Attorneys and staff spend hours drafting routine documents, summarizing meetings, searching internal files, managing case data, and writing reports. These tasks are necessary — but they dont need to be done manually. And every hour spent on admin is an hour that isnt billed. Lawverex builds practical AI systems specifically for law firms. Not generic AI tools. Not workshops or strategy decks. Actual systems — deployed, trained, and integrated into how your firm already works. We start every engagement with an AI Operations Audit. A structured, four-week analysis of your firms workflows, where time is being lost, what its costing you, and exactly which AI systems will have the highest impact. Most firms identify over $100,000 in potential annual efficiency gains in the audit alone. From there, we implement. Document drafting systems. Legal research assistants. Meeting and deposition summarization. Internal knowledge bases your team can actually search. Client intake automation. Each system is built around your firms specific workflows — not adapted from a generic template. We work exclusively with law firms in North America. That focus is intentional. Legal workflows have specific demands around confidentiality, precision, and compliance that general AI consultants dont understand. We do. Our pricing is transparent and published. No discovery calls required just to get a number. If your firm is ready to recover billable hours and run more efficiently, the first step is a conversation. lawverex.com
2022
Investor
Aug 2022
Increase LTV with a mobile application powered by Kin, your home for customer connection.
2021
Investor
Oct 2021
Inveterate powers loyalty programs for Shopify merchants that create true customer connections and go beyond just points. Rather than reward only for routine behavior, Inveterate provides value to customers on every purchase, and ultimately transforms customer behavior to spend more, more often. Customers include True Classic, Dolls Kills, Fly by Jing, Bylt, Liquid IV, Honey Love, Aura Bora, Bambu Earth, Cuts Clothing, CarnivoreSnax, Dr. Brandt, Fresh Clean Threads, Groove Life, Laundry Sauce, Rockstar Original, Sunday Swagger, and Truly Beauty.
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Oct 2021
Reinventing the digital gifting experience.
2020
Investor
Dec 2020
Build and scale a world-class creator program with GRIN. Thousands of industry pioneers—like SKIMS, Rhode, and GoPro—use our Creator Management platform to harness the power of influential people to drive brand awareness and growth. Together, were redefining whats possible in the creator economy.
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