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Board Member
Mar 2022
Buy, sell, and manage cloud solutions with the marketplace that fuels your business.
Our born-in-the-cloud platform modernizes the channel’s cloud journey with consolidated billing, automated provisioning, and industry-leading PSA integrations. And our technology is backed by responsive support, educational offerings, and the resources you need to grow your cloud business.
Pax8 has displaced legacy distribution by connecting the channel ecosystem to our award-winning cloud marketplace. If you want to be successful with the cloud, you want to work with Pax8.
Board Member
Dec 2021
Spotter is a platform for Creators, providing services and software designed to accelerate growth for the world’s best Creators and brands. Creators working with Spotter can access the capital, knowledge, community, and personalized AI software products they need to succeed. With unique knowledge of how Creators work, the resources they need to grow, and the challenges they face, Spotter is empowering top YouTube Creators to succeed.
Spotter has already deployed over $940 million to YouTube Creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth, with plans to reach $1 billion in investment by 2024. With a premium catalog that spans over 725,000 videos, Spotter generates more than 88 billion monthly watch-time minutes, delivering a unique scaled media solution to Advertisers and Ad Agencies that is transparent, efficient, and 100% brand safe. For more information about Spotter, please visit https://spotter.com.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
ZenBusiness is a company that empowers entrepreneurs to start, run, grow, and stay compliant—all in one place. As a leader in business formations and compliance, ZenBusiness blends AI with award-winning human support to simplify and accelerate small business success. The company’s platform is designed to reduce complexity and provide a worry-free experience for entrepreneurs navigating the legal and operational requirements of business ownership.
ZenBusiness supports small business owners in protecting their personal assets by guiding them through entity formation and providing tools that ensure ongoing compliance. These services include LLC formation, registered agent services, operating agreements, EIN acquisition, and automated reminders for state and federal filing deadlines.
At the core of the ZenBusiness offering is an intuitive, all-in-one platform that consolidates essential tools for compliance management, document access, business insights, and more. This platform acts as a centralized hub where users can manage their business confidently and efficiently, whether they’re just starting out or scaling operations.
By integrating artificial intelligence with expert customer service, ZenBusiness offers a unique hybrid model that delivers smart automation without sacrificing the personal touch. This commitment to both innovation and support has made ZenBusiness a trusted partner for millions of small business owners.
ZenBusiness has been named a 2024 Silver Stevie® Award winner for Sales & Customer Service in the Front-Line Customer Service Team category, a finalist for the Greater Austin Business Awards 2024, and ranked as the #4 fastest-growing Longhorn business in 2024.
ZenBusiness believes that everyone should have the opportunity to pursue business ownership. With a mission to champion the dreams of entrepreneurs, we enable small business owners to achieve success on their own terms by doing what they love.
Board Member
Jun 2021
Class is software developed by Class Technologies Inc., a company founded by education software pioneer Michael Chasen. Class adds teaching and learning tools to Zoom and Microsoft Teams and makes the virtual classroom feel like a real classroom. It helps instructors take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, talk one-on-one with a learner, and more. Class is headquartered in Washington, DC with staff around the world. Schedule a demo at class.com and follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @WeAreClassTech.
Board Member
Sep 2020
Solving problems that sit at a unique intersection of hardware, tech, health, fitness and design.
Investor
Sep 2019
Compass is a real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow. We deliver an incomparable experience to both agents and their clients all in service of the Compass mission: to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012 by Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin, Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara & Montecito, San Diego, Seattle & Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin & Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe.
Learn more and find your place at www.compass.com and www.compass.com/careers.
Compass only reaches out to applicants from a @compass.com domain and does not prompt applicants to download software or files as part of its application process.
Experience · 7 entries
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2022
Board Member
Mar 2022
Buy, sell, and manage cloud solutions with the marketplace that fuels your business.
Our born-in-the-cloud platform modernizes the channel’s cloud journey with consolidated billing, automated provisioning, and industry-leading PSA integrations. And our technology is backed by responsive support, educational offerings, and the resources you need to grow your cloud business.
Pax8 has displaced legacy distribution by connecting the channel ecosystem to our award-winning cloud marketplace. If you want to be successful with the cloud, you want to work with Pax8.
2021
Board Member
Dec 2021
Spotter is a platform for Creators, providing services and software designed to accelerate growth for the world’s best Creators and brands. Creators working with Spotter can access the capital, knowledge, community, and personalized AI software products they need to succeed. With unique knowledge of how Creators work, the resources they need to grow, and the challenges they face, Spotter is empowering top YouTube Creators to succeed.
Spotter has already deployed over $940 million to YouTube Creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth, with plans to reach $1 billion in investment by 2024. With a premium catalog that spans over 725,000 videos, Spotter generates more than 88 billion monthly watch-time minutes, delivering a unique scaled media solution to Advertisers and Ad Agencies that is transparent, efficient, and 100% brand safe. For more information about Spotter, please visit https://spotter.com.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
ZenBusiness is a company that empowers entrepreneurs to start, run, grow, and stay compliant—all in one place. As a leader in business formations and compliance, ZenBusiness blends AI with award-winning human support to simplify and accelerate small business success. The company’s platform is designed to reduce complexity and provide a worry-free experience for entrepreneurs navigating the legal and operational requirements of business ownership.
ZenBusiness supports small business owners in protecting their personal assets by guiding them through entity formation and providing tools that ensure ongoing compliance. These services include LLC formation, registered agent services, operating agreements, EIN acquisition, and automated reminders for state and federal filing deadlines.
At the core of the ZenBusiness offering is an intuitive, all-in-one platform that consolidates essential tools for compliance management, document access, business insights, and more. This platform acts as a centralized hub where users can manage their business confidently and efficiently, whether they’re just starting out or scaling operations.
By integrating artificial intelligence with expert customer service, ZenBusiness offers a unique hybrid model that delivers smart automation without sacrificing the personal touch. This commitment to both innovation and support has made ZenBusiness a trusted partner for millions of small business owners.
ZenBusiness has been named a 2024 Silver Stevie® Award winner for Sales & Customer Service in the Front-Line Customer Service Team category, a finalist for the Greater Austin Business Awards 2024, and ranked as the #4 fastest-growing Longhorn business in 2024.
ZenBusiness believes that everyone should have the opportunity to pursue business ownership. With a mission to champion the dreams of entrepreneurs, we enable small business owners to achieve success on their own terms by doing what they love.
Board Member
Jun 2021
Class is software developed by Class Technologies Inc., a company founded by education software pioneer Michael Chasen. Class adds teaching and learning tools to Zoom and Microsoft Teams and makes the virtual classroom feel like a real classroom. It helps instructors take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, talk one-on-one with a learner, and more. Class is headquartered in Washington, DC with staff around the world. Schedule a demo at class.com and follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @WeAreClassTech.
2020
Board Member
Sep 2020
Solving problems that sit at a unique intersection of hardware, tech, health, fitness and design.
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