John Witchel

CEO, King Energy

📍 Durango, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jun 2019
Wunder is a Modern Energy Company. We help businesses, municipalities, and schools save money by delivering clean on-site power. We convert simple warehouses into electrified industrial platforms built for the future. We enable the nation’s leading commercial and industrial real estate firms to capture the benefits of solar across their properties. We align ESG goals with revenue targets. We deploy renewable energy assets today that will power America’s tomorrow. We open new markets, we launch new partnerships, and we build new solar and energy storage projects every day. Join us at https://www.wundercapital.com/careers
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Aug 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.
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Mar 2010
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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2021
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Mar 2021
Established in 1989, the Colorado Solar and Storage Association [formerly the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association (COSEIA)] is the award-winning nonprofit association leading Colorado’s solar and storage industries. Our mission is to expand solar and storage markets and to generate jobs and prosperity for the people of Colorado. Together with hundreds of solar and storage business members we work to advance clean energy policies, remove market barriers, highlight emerging trends, and increase solar and storage education.
2020
Board Member
Sep 2020
La Plata Electric Association, Inc., a Touchstone Energy Cooperative, is Colorado’s fifth largest electric distribution cooperative, serving more than 33,000 individual, family and business members in La Plata and Archuleta, with segments of Hinsdale, Mineral and San Juan counties. LPEA also serves a portion of Rio Arriba, New Mexico. La Plata Electric Association, Inc. shares a common promise to provide your residential and commercial energy services while meeting the highest standards of accountability, integrity, innovation and commitment to your community. Mission Statement: La Plata Electric Association provides its members safe, reliable electricity at the lowest reasonable cost while being environmentally responsible. Vision Statement: Shaping the future by building trustworthy community partnerships as an innovative, forward-thinking industry leader, delivering excellence in our member-owned cooperative. Our power is generated by Tri-State Generation & Transmission using various generation methods including coal, natural gas, and alternative energy production using hydroelectricity, solar and wind power. Electricity for La Plata Electric Association, Inc. is also delivered through Tri-State Generation & Transmission. La Plata Electric Association, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We have more than 110 employees who work in of our Durango headquarters and Pagosa Springs branch office. These employees live in the communities we serve.
2019
Board Member
Jun 2019
Wunder is a Modern Energy Company. We help businesses, municipalities, and schools save money by delivering clean on-site power. We convert simple warehouses into electrified industrial platforms built for the future. We enable the nation’s leading commercial and industrial real estate firms to capture the benefits of solar across their properties. We align ESG goals with revenue targets. We deploy renewable energy assets today that will power America’s tomorrow. We open new markets, we launch new partnerships, and we build new solar and energy storage projects every day. Join us at https://www.wundercapital.com/careers
2015
GitPrime
Board Member
Jan 2015
2013
Co-Founder and CTO
Mar 2013
Aura provides affordable, credit-building loans to working families in America. Aura, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), is proud to be a part of the financial technology community, delivering innovative solutions for fairness and financial inclusion. Most financial institutions see borrowers as simply a credit score. At Aura, we see the whole you. We see your potential and your dreams, and we will help you get there. Our borrowers want to make a better life for themselves and their families. Aura is here to make sure that borrowers have a true partner on their financial journey. Aura serves low and middle income communities at risk of being left behind. We have provided hundreds of thousands of affordable loans since launching in 2014. We are available in over 1,200 locations across California, Texas, Illinois and Arizona. Over two-thirds of Aura’s customers grow their credit score by an average of 312 points from their first to second loan. Aura will build on this success by further empowering borrowers, putting them on the road to financial security, and helping them to achieve their dreams.
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