Craig J. Lewis

Cofounder & CEO

📍 Dallas, Texas, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 12 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
12
Total investments
3
Early stage
4
Mid stage
0
Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

11 investments · sorted by recency
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Angel Investor
Mar 2025
We enable financial innovators to access the best account aggregation and transaction enrichment providers through one lightweight integration and one simple contract. Our mission is to unlock the next wave of fintech innovation by removing technical and commercial barriers to build with financial data. Quiltt is backed by investors including Greycroft, Newark Venture Partners, Motivate Ventures and Abstraction Capital.
Investor
Jan 2025
RubyWell is paving a path to financial stability for all family caregivers.
Investor
Jun 2024
CHANGING THE GRILL GAME Texas-based barbecue outfitter NOMAD Grills offers premium, high performance portable cooking gear for pitmasters at home or on-the-roam. NOMAD’s story begins with a simple need for a portable grill that wouldn’t rust out or fall apart mid-adventure. Tired of the quasi-disposable, stamped steel and barely bolted contraptions that flood the market, NOMAD set out to build a better grill — one they could take places, one that could keep up, and one they’d be proud to show up and cook with. A revolt against cut-rate kettles and powder coated camp cookers, the NOMAD Grill & Smoker features die-cast aluminum for adventure-grade grilling on-the-go. Learn More: NomadGrills.com
mid stageManufacturing
Angel Investor
May 2024
Fondo is the accounting platform for high growth companies. We make tax credits, taxes, and bookkeeping easy for 1,000+ startups. Fondo is the automated way for startups to get cash back from the IRS ($21k on average). We file your taxes & close your books, and you get cash back.
Investor
Feb 2023
Greatest of all time with healthy-living in mind developed by NFL Hall of Famer, Jerry Rice. Greatness is a lifestyle and our mission is to provide consumers with health-forward products and a lifestyle that fuels their pursuit of greatness in whatever they do. Our energy drink has a proprietary blend of natural caffeine, green tea with EGCG, ginger, amino acids and cordyceps mushrooms. Visit www.goatfuel.com
Angel Investor
Dec 2022
CollateralEdge™ is an innovative, collateral coverage solution designed to give community banks a competitive edge in commercial lending. Our FinTech platform enables banks to overcome short-term underwriting concerns and policy exceptions. Our mission is to empower community banks to innovate, compete and differentiate in the commercial loan market. We are the competitive edge in lending!
Angel Investor
Jan 2022
The all-in-one student loan app empowering borrowers to tackle debt without the headache. Discover forgiveness programs, effective loan management strategies, and transparent repayment plans that enhance overall financial well-being for student loan borrowers. Chipper members can conveniently monitor all loan details and repayments in a single location, accelerating debt repayment with Chipper Round-Ups. On average, our members are on track to save $6,400 and reduce their repayment period by 2.5 years!
Angel Investor
Jan 2022
"I deserve the threads in my closet, big boy deposits, Nike shares and stock tips" -Nas. Join the club at joinneon.com
Angel Investor
Apr 2021
A research firm focused on creating high quality, actionable, content for fintech professionals.
Angel Investor
Jan 2021
Hey, we’re LOOP. We use predictive models and real-time driving data to create fair and equitable car insurance whilst eliminating biased and discriminatory factors—like credit scores, zip codes, and job titles—from the equation. We’re a mission, with a business. We believe systemic injustice has no place in our financial systems. That’s why we only look at how and where you drive to give you a car insurance quote that you can feel great about. Backed by top-tier VCs, institutional investors, and reinsurers who all believe in bringing change to this industry, we’re committed to giving back and being a force for good in the world so we can uplift the communities impacted by systemic injustice. To us, that’s what it means to Drive Good.
early stageInsurance
Board Member
Dec 2018
Visit Dallas promotes Dallas as the ideal business and leisure destination to the regional, national and international marketplaces. VisitDallas aims to favorably impact the Dallas economy through conventions and tourism.
Experience · 18 entries
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Investments (12)
Founder (2)
Board (1)
2025
Co-Founder & CEO
Jun 2025
Zing: Transforming the Browser for Business The browser is where business gets done - knowledge workers spend over 80% of their workday in the browser, making it the unofficial operating system for modern business. Companies are investing billions in AI and productivity tools while their teams juggle dozens of web-based applications - from CRM and analytics to project management and communication platforms. Meanwhile, employees are drowning in tabs, struggling to navigate between tools and maintain context across workflows. But traditional browsers are just passive windows to the web, forcing users to manually navigate between sites, manage countless tabs, and tediously repeat workflows - creating massive inefficiency in how business actually gets done. Adding AI features to old browsers is like putting a smart speaker in a rotary phone - it doesnt solve the fundamental problems of workflow automation, enterprise security, or cross-application intelligence. So we built Zing, the first AI-native enterprise browser that transforms the passive window into an intelligent workspace. Zing understands your intent, automates complex workflows across applications, and becomes your AI co-pilot for getting work done faster and more efficiently - all with enterprise-grade security and control. For the first time, businesses can unify their web-based workflows in one secure, intelligent command center while maintaining complete control over their data and AI usage. Ad Astra ⚡️
Angel Investor
Mar 2025
We enable financial innovators to access the best account aggregation and transaction enrichment providers through one lightweight integration and one simple contract. Our mission is to unlock the next wave of fintech innovation by removing technical and commercial barriers to build with financial data. Quiltt is backed by investors including Greycroft, Newark Venture Partners, Motivate Ventures and Abstraction Capital.
Investor
Jan 2025
RubyWell is paving a path to financial stability for all family caregivers.
2024
Investor
Jun 2024
CHANGING THE GRILL GAME Texas-based barbecue outfitter NOMAD Grills offers premium, high performance portable cooking gear for pitmasters at home or on-the-roam. NOMAD’s story begins with a simple need for a portable grill that wouldn’t rust out or fall apart mid-adventure. Tired of the quasi-disposable, stamped steel and barely bolted contraptions that flood the market, NOMAD set out to build a better grill — one they could take places, one that could keep up, and one they’d be proud to show up and cook with. A revolt against cut-rate kettles and powder coated camp cookers, the NOMAD Grill & Smoker features die-cast aluminum for adventure-grade grilling on-the-go. Learn More: NomadGrills.com
mid stageManufacturing
Angel Investor
May 2024
Fondo is the accounting platform for high growth companies. We make tax credits, taxes, and bookkeeping easy for 1,000+ startups. Fondo is the automated way for startups to get cash back from the IRS ($21k on average). We file your taxes & close your books, and you get cash back.
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