Lister Delgado

Managing Partner at IDEA Fund Partners

📍 Durham, North Carolina, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
18
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11
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2
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18y
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Investor and Board Member
Jun 2020
Finmark, a BILL financial planning and cash flow insights software, simplifies financial planning and cash flow insights for SMBs. Our software brings together data from across business systems into consolidated dashboards, providing greater visibility, insights, and control. It empowers SMBs to build budgets, develop strategic plans, and gain real-time insights into their cash flows. Accounting firms also use our software to provide strategic advisory services to their clients.
Investor and Board Member
Sep 2019
Klearly transforms traditional B2B marketing, sales, and customer success teams into data-driven, optimized functions working together to generate revenue. Using machine learning and prescriptive analytics, Klearly provides a software application to empower teams with actionable, revenue-centric insights.
Board Observer
Oct 2018
Allvision strives to make sense of the world around us by organizing and analyzing rich spatial data provided by our partners and customers -- generated from autonomous vehicles, high definition mapping and other remote sensing solutions (satellite and aerial imagery). Our core product is a platform that aggregates multiple sources of 3D data and, through the power of Machine Learning and Cloud Computing, provides analysis to derive actionable information. The unique insights coming out of our platform give businesses and governments the ability to make informed decisions in near real-time with maximum confidence.
Board Observer
Feb 2018
Are you seeking to: Increase Customer Loyalty? Grow Lifetime Value 33%? Truly understand how customers use your product in real life? Increase the frequency of re-orders? Design products that reflect and enhance real use? Adrich is the smart way to connect with your customers. Our Real Use Engagement Platform is comprised of two essential components: (1) smart packaging hardware (patent pending flexible labels) that adhere to any size or type of packaging and discreetly captures consumer usage data, plus (2) customized software that constantly updates consumer post purchase usage information in a dashboard that outlines your brand metrics. The result: the only two way communication enabler that connects brands to post purchase usage information, allowing better consumer retention, sales & loyalty. Adrich is an AI meets IOT consumer insight company that specializes in the design and deployment of the world’s first “patented” Smart Consumer Platform, unveiling true qualitative and quantitative consumer usage data. Our end-to-end solution is powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms, coupled with real-time analytics that are captured through our smart product usage trackers. The output is an incomparable perspective into True Consumer Usage Behaviors. With Adrich, brands can now better understand how consumers interact with their product through real-time usage data such as time of day of use, day of week of use, and when consumers run out of product therefore providing a means to increased consumer satisfaction, sales and marketing optimization, and predictive consumer insights for continued brand growth. Adrich is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA and backed by Sony Innovation Lab, Plug & Play Ventures and Idea Fund Partners. Currently, Adrich has 14 Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods companies on their Smart Consumer Platform.
Investor
Dec 2016
Imagine your car feeling new again. Born & raised in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, our team at Spiffy has always had an affinity for technology. Since 2014, we’ve used that passion to pursue our goal of truly convenient and environmentally-friendly car care for individuals and fleets across the country. With our Spiffy app, you can schedule, track, and pay for mobile oil change, car wash, detail, and other maintenance services at a time and date that fits your schedule. Our professionally trained technicians come to you with all the equipment needed to make your car feel new again. All of our services, from a basic car wash to a nano-ceramic coating or oil change, are designed to be conscious of the local ecosystem. Each appointment uses less than half of the water of a traditional car wash and we always take the dirty water back with us. Our eco-friendly supplies, products, and proprietary technology safely removes and recycles used water and oil. Whether you’re at home or work, we’ll take care of your car so you can get back to living your life.
Board Observer
Sep 2014
Canopy is an innovative landscaping company that is taking a fresh approach to the green industry. We are an employee-first company that builds and maintains great looking, healthy landscapes in an environmentally responsible manner. We use technology to streamline operations and improve communications in order to provide an exceptional employee and customer experience. We’re reinventing the residential lawn care and maintenance industry by providing year-round comprehensive services to our customers. We support industry-leading crews who have the best equipment, branded trailers and uniforms, technology, and tons of encouragement from our team. We are bringing sophistication, technology, and culture to a dated and fragmented industry, making both our customers and our crews lives better in the process. We are strong believers in company culture, and have a mission to facilitate the redemption of the home services industry, for both the homeowner and the worker. Our company values (S.E.R.V.E.) are core to this mission: Strive for excellence, Exceed expectations, Represent ourselves well, Value others, and Enjoy what we do!
Board Member
Mar 2014
WedPics is the #1 Photo & Video Sharing app created specifically to capture the entire wedding experience...and it's FREE. Available on iPhone, Android and Web, guests can share their photos to specific albums for the Bride & Groom to see from each unique guest perspective. WedPics solves the universal problem for Wedding Couples everywhere....how do we collect all of the photos from OUR wedding? WedPics Features: THE APP - Multiple wedding albums Planning, Memory Lane, Rehearsal dinner, Reception, Ceremony AND ANY CUSTOM ALBUM YOU WANT! - Amazing photo filters - Custom wedding bio - Wedding cover photo - Unlimited guests - Real-time photo feed - Commenting and loving of photos - Notifications THE WEB - Interactive photo gallery - Upload from any device - Real-time wedding slideshow - Personalized Admin dashboard - Interactive commenting - Wedding bio and cover photo - Download your high-resolution album - Lifetime hosting of all content - Create your custom invite cards Setup is as easy as 1-2-3 1) Create Your Free App 2) Invite Guests (via Text, Email, Facebook) 3) Capture and enjoy the moments throughout the wedding experience!
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Board Observer
Jan 2014
The only official Pendo LinkedIn account. Pendo’s mission is to elevate the world’s experience with software. Pendo’s product experience platform allows companies to make product intelligence actionable with speed and scale, giving rise to a new generation of companies that put product at the center of everything. Pendo customers include the world’s leading companies, including Verizon, Morgan Stanley, LabCorp, OpenTable, Okta, Salesforce, and Zendesk. Through Mind the Product and customer communities, sponsored events and podcast, Pendo aims to support the success of product and digital leaders everywhere. Pendo is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina and has offices around the world.
Investor
Jan 2013
71lbs helps companies save money on their FedEx & UPS shipping costs and provide insights and data to help them make better business decisions. Whether its helping you negotiate your FedEx/UPS carrier agreement or get due refunds such as late delivery, lost/damaged, invoice errors, or Amazon refunds, we are here to support you. Our services are contingency-based, meaning we only get paid AFTER weve saved you money first. 71lbs requires no contracts, no minimum shipping amounts, and no sign-up fees. We are proud to serve over 5,000 customers.
Board Member
Dec 2012
Coming soon! GradSave provides a revolutionary new service that helps you navigate your college savings options in just minutes! GradSave makes it easy for you to choose and open your 529 plan with: - Objective advice - College savings expertise - Leading edge technology - An easy online experience You can even speak to a live 529 specialist to help you plan your college savings strategy.
Board Member
Dec 2012
Distil Networks (part of Imperva) is the global leader in bot mitigation, protects websites, mobile apps, and APIs from automated threats. Distil solutions reinforce Imperva’s market leadership in Application Security. Imperva is an analyst-recognized, cybersecurity leader—championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside. Today, Distil’s unique and holistic approach provides the vigilant service, superior technology, and industry expertise needed for full visibility and control over human, good bot, and bad bot traffic. We defend customers against web scraping, account takeover, transaction fraud, denial of service, competitive data mining, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, click fraud, and web and mobile API abuse.
Board Member
Apr 2011
Windsor Circles Predictive Marketing platform helps retailers grow repeat sales by putting the right message in front of their customer at the right time. Our clients see a 20%+ lift in revenue from treated customers (evidenced by control group testing). Our platform models customer behavior to determine the key triggers for driving repeat sales. Using these insights, our platform automates 1:1 messaging and optimizes email cadence through our clients preferred activation platform. Windsor Circle is integrated with 17+ eCommerce platforms and 19 email service providers. Our ability to ingest data and activate email through direct integration ensures faster setup, higher data integrity, and measurability.
Board Member
Oct 2010
Through high quality software and high quality service, Argyle Social adds value to your social media marketing strategy. Argyle proveds tools growing B2Bs need to create and grow real social value. Try a demo or get in touch with Danny to learn more. ar.gy/demo
Board Observer
May 2010
Automated Insights is the creator of Wordsmith, the world’s first public natural language generation platform. Wordsmith allows users to generate human-sounding narratives from data, making it easy to produce millions of personalized reports, articles and narratives in the time it takes to write just one. The Wordsmith platform helps companies in data-driven industries, including financial services, e-commerce, real estate, business intelligence, media and many others, achieve content scale, efficiency and personalization. More than 200 customers, including Allstate, Associated Press, Edmunds.com, the Orlando Magic and Yahoo! use Wordsmith to generate more than 1.5 billion pieces of content per year.
Board Member
Jul 2008
Oncoscope develops imaging systems that provide images and information on tissue microstructure. The focus of this technology is epithelial tissues where 85% of all cancers begin.
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2021
Board Member
Jan 2021
El Futuro is a one-of-a-kind place where Spanish speaking immigrants can access culturally-sensitive mental health services. We are a community-based program, founded as a volunteer effort in 2001 to meet the otherwise unmet need for bilingual mental health services for the growing Latino immigrant community in North Carolina. Since forming as a nonprofit in 2004, and despite drastic reductions in public funding for community-based mental health care, El Futuro has grown to become North Carolina’s trusted resource for trauma-informed, culturally-sensitive mental health services. Our staff and agency have received numerous honors including the 2006 Mental Health Association in North Carolina Heroes in the Fight Award, 2007 North Carolina Latino Diamante Award, and 2007 Citizen Award from the Independent Weekly. El Futuro is also an AHEC Center for Excellence. Our most meaningful achievements, however, are when families grow stronger and get back to their dreams for the future that brought them to our community in the first place. We’re honored to know that our number one source of referrals is from friends and family of clients, reflecting the confianza (trust) we’ve built with Latino families over the years. Today, with clinics in both Durham and Siler City and a growing effort to improve the quality of mental health care for Latino families across the state through La Mesita (El Futuro’s Latino Mental Health Provider Network), our mission is to nurture stronger familias to live out their dreams. We hope you’ll join us in this important work.
2020
Investor and Board Member
Jun 2020
Finmark, a BILL financial planning and cash flow insights software, simplifies financial planning and cash flow insights for SMBs. Our software brings together data from across business systems into consolidated dashboards, providing greater visibility, insights, and control. It empowers SMBs to build budgets, develop strategic plans, and gain real-time insights into their cash flows. Accounting firms also use our software to provide strategic advisory services to their clients.
2019
Investor and Board Member
Sep 2019
Klearly transforms traditional B2B marketing, sales, and customer success teams into data-driven, optimized functions working together to generate revenue. Using machine learning and prescriptive analytics, Klearly provides a software application to empower teams with actionable, revenue-centric insights.
2018
Board Observer
Oct 2018
Allvision strives to make sense of the world around us by organizing and analyzing rich spatial data provided by our partners and customers -- generated from autonomous vehicles, high definition mapping and other remote sensing solutions (satellite and aerial imagery). Our core product is a platform that aggregates multiple sources of 3D data and, through the power of Machine Learning and Cloud Computing, provides analysis to derive actionable information. The unique insights coming out of our platform give businesses and governments the ability to make informed decisions in near real-time with maximum confidence.
Board Observer
Feb 2018
Are you seeking to: Increase Customer Loyalty? Grow Lifetime Value 33%? Truly understand how customers use your product in real life? Increase the frequency of re-orders? Design products that reflect and enhance real use? Adrich is the smart way to connect with your customers. Our Real Use Engagement Platform is comprised of two essential components: (1) smart packaging hardware (patent pending flexible labels) that adhere to any size or type of packaging and discreetly captures consumer usage data, plus (2) customized software that constantly updates consumer post purchase usage information in a dashboard that outlines your brand metrics. The result: the only two way communication enabler that connects brands to post purchase usage information, allowing better consumer retention, sales & loyalty. Adrich is an AI meets IOT consumer insight company that specializes in the design and deployment of the world’s first “patented” Smart Consumer Platform, unveiling true qualitative and quantitative consumer usage data. Our end-to-end solution is powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms, coupled with real-time analytics that are captured through our smart product usage trackers. The output is an incomparable perspective into True Consumer Usage Behaviors. With Adrich, brands can now better understand how consumers interact with their product through real-time usage data such as time of day of use, day of week of use, and when consumers run out of product therefore providing a means to increased consumer satisfaction, sales and marketing optimization, and predictive consumer insights for continued brand growth. Adrich is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA and backed by Sony Innovation Lab, Plug & Play Ventures and Idea Fund Partners. Currently, Adrich has 14 Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods companies on their Smart Consumer Platform.
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