Kanth Gopalpur

The technologies and digital touchpoints that shoppers utilize along their purchasing journey, require a new interaction model for truly effective digital commerce. We believe commerce must be guided by people and supported by machine-learning technologies to enable true collaboration - fostering loyalty, building efficiency and profitability. Where collaborative technology is the engine to engage, guide and capture shopper-specific data as they navigate across a complex network of digital elements; the data gathered and generated creates an opportunity for people to engage in efficient, effective, and personalized collaboration with every customer. Understanding shopper behavior is a critical element to leverage as you enable your salespeople to join the digital conversation. Our Collaborative Commerce Engine enriches real-time shopper data and displays it in user-specific profiles through our Smart Commerce Platform. In showcasing shopper behavior and buying signals, we inspire sales to collaborate more effectively with every individual shopper - driving loyalty, inspiring confidence and, ultimately, boosting business results.

Poached was founded with a simple premise: the hospitality industry needs its own jobs marketplace. With an innovative, feature-rich software platform focused solely on the hospitality sector, Poached has become the #1 hospitality jobs marketplace in the nation. Whether an employer needs to hire permanently or just fill a shift — Poached offers flexible and affordable solutions for any hiring need. With a strong 100% year-over-year growth rate, almost 1 million registered job seekers, half a million monthly visitors, and almost 4 million applications filed, Poached keeps the hospitality industry fully staffed and growing. Learn more about Poached at poachedjobs.com.

The Oregon chapter was launched in 2007 with an inaugural keynote address by the late C.K. Prahlad, the distinguished professor and internationally recognized business consultant famous as the father of the concepts of “core competence” and “the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid.” TiE Oregon seeks to further the success of the innovation-driven enterprise in the entire state of Oregon. One of the objectives is also to bring the benefits of its national and international connections to local entrepreneurs, by inviting distinguished speakers, hosting delegations and connecting our members to other chapters in the TiE network. Another aim is to help members explore markets in other geographic regions and bring foreign investment into Oregon.

Public Market is a decentralized eCommerce platform that eliminates the exorbitant transaction fees imposed by today’s eCommerce marketplaces and replaces them with a blockchain-based token that rewards buyers for purchasing from the network. Our eCommerce website, database, universal catalog, and trust protocol replace all essential functions of monopoly marketplaces (Amazon, eBay, Walmart) with a decentralized alternative that is a demonstrably lower cost for all parties and requires no tradeoffs with regard to convenience or risk. Public Market's founders are all successful marketplace and eCommerce entrepreneurs, having founded Y Combinator-backed Simbi (world's largest alternative currency marketplace), Monsoon Commerce (multi-channel eCommerce sales management platform that's facilitated $4 billion in sales), and Better World Books (Amazon's largest bookseller, over $500m in sales). Combined, the founders have raised over $170m in capital from investors including Greylock, Foundation, Maveron, Vulcan, Tesla, and DBL.

The technologies and digital touchpoints that shoppers utilize along their purchasing journey, require a new interaction model for truly effective digital commerce. We believe commerce must be guided by people and supported by machine-learning technologies to enable true collaboration - fostering loyalty, building efficiency and profitability. Where collaborative technology is the engine to engage, guide and capture shopper-specific data as they navigate across a complex network of digital elements; the data gathered and generated creates an opportunity for people to engage in efficient, effective, and personalized collaboration with every customer. Understanding shopper behavior is a critical element to leverage as you enable your salespeople to join the digital conversation. Our Collaborative Commerce Engine enriches real-time shopper data and displays it in user-specific profiles through our Smart Commerce Platform. In showcasing shopper behavior and buying signals, we inspire sales to collaborate more effectively with every individual shopper - driving loyalty, inspiring confidence and, ultimately, boosting business results.

For some populations, there is a noticeable gap in gaining access to investment capital. These aspiring entrepreneurs are both underserved and overlooked, yet they have the courage and vision it takes to start and scale a business. At Elevate Capital, we believe there is a tremendous opportunity to invest early and offer mentorship to these entrepreneurs. We provide the venture capital and guidance they need to turn their startups into great companies. We support visionaries from all walks of life and help them reach entrepreneurial success.