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Jun 2022
Motion.io combines white-label client portals with project management in a single platform to save you time and keep projects moving. No more managing client tasks and internal team tasks in two separate software apps. As customers complete tasks in their portals, your team can start checking off dependent tasks in their associated projects. Built with the needs of SaaS Companies, Agencies and Service Professionals in mind.
Board Member
Dec 2017
Fc Boulder Soccer Club is a sports company based out of 1480 Orchard Ave, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
Investor / Advisor
Jun 2016
Brighter Vision builds beautiful custom websites for private practice owners, therapists, coaches & other mental health professionals for a fraction of the cost of standard web developers.
We've incorporated the best features from leading providers - plus created them where they didn't exist - and packaged them into a fully customized, mobile responsive website designed to market you and your practice.
With Brighter Vision, you get a $5,000+ website for a fraction of the cost.
Investor / Advisor
Aug 2015
FEVO is helping the world’s biggest brands reimagine online shopping by making every e-commerce site a social, interactive destination.
We believe the existing e-commerce landscape is lonely and isolating, and so we are rebuilding the online shopping experience to correct that.
Imagine the virality, engagement, community building and FOMO of social media … only on your brand’s website.
FEVO: Shop like a human.
Investor / Advisor
Nov 2014
Local agencies are a crucial segment of the child care industry. Our goal is to help agency owners save time and stay competitive by automating their temporary care operations and giving their customers the technology they expect with the Sitter Pro platform. Tasks like caregiver scheduling and processing payments that used to take days, take minutes with Sitter Pro. Now, agency owners can spend their time growing their business, not managing it.
Sitter Pro consists of iPhone and Android apps for clients and caregivers in addition to a full back-end management system for the agency to oversee their operations. A few of the features:
-Automated caregiver scheduling and assignment based on a proprietary algorithm that takes into account family favorites and agency recommendations
-Time tracking
-Automated payment processing supporting credit cards, cash, or invoices
-Corporate backup care support
-Supports any in-home care type including child, pet, senior, home, and tutoring.
-Supports almost any business model with custom rate management and policy configuration including cancellation fees, minimum hours, and last-minute booking fees
-Multiple service area support
-Business reporting
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Oct 2013
Empower your business with advanced inventory management and business analytics. Thrive Inventory powered by Shopventory provides an easy-to-use advanced inventory management system for small to medium sized businesses.
Seamlessly integrate with next generation Point of Sale (POS) systems like Square, Clover, Shopify, and PayPal Here along with eCommerce platforms BigCommerce, Shopify and WooCommerce.
We provide real-time big retailer inventory intelligence to small and medium size businesses at a fraction of the cost to drive insightful decisions and run a more efficient business.
Take control over all your inventory, sales channels, and metrics, allowing you to make the right decisions at the right time.
Investor
Oct 2011
Since 2011, we have been teaching people to grow food. Growing food improves nutrition security and mental health, increases time spent outdoors, and cultivates a deeper appreciation for our collective impact on the climate.
We now support schools, families, and communities across the country to grow their own food through training, grants, garden bed donations, and providing materials directly to teachers and growers to create and support their garden programs.
Investor / Advisor
Jul 2011
At Trigger, we cause innovation to happen. We invest and team up with exceptional entrepreneurs to build transformational or disruptive digital media companies in the area of curation services. Together with our advisors, we give our entrepreneurs access to the breadth of knowledge, relationships and creativity that they need to build great companies.
Investor
Nov 2009
SendGrid is a proven cloud-based customer communication platform that successfully delivers over 45 billion emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, Hubspot, Spotify, Uber, and FourSquare, as well as more traditional enterprises like Taco Bell, Intuit and Costco.
Investor
Mar 2009
Part of the Airbnb family, HotelTonight is a hotel-booking service focused on making last-minute trips easy and fun, offering travelers seamless, on-demand booking for boutique and independent hotels. Through features such as Daily Drop, personalized daily hotel deals, HotelTonight uses innovation to enable travelers to plan less and live more, while providing hotels new ways to sell inventory. Launched in 2011, HotelTonight is available on iOS, Android, and at hoteltonight.com.
Investor
Aug 2008
We are the people behind WordPress.com, Day One, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Tumblr, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, Crowdsignal, Atavist, and more. Were proud to be a distributed company, with more than 1,730 Automatticians in 92 countries (and counting), speaking 116 different languages.
Were hiring! https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
Investor / Mentor
2007
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.
Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities.
Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
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Investor
Jun 2022
Motion.io combines white-label client portals with project management in a single platform to save you time and keep projects moving. No more managing client tasks and internal team tasks in two separate software apps. As customers complete tasks in their portals, your team can start checking off dependent tasks in their associated projects. Built with the needs of SaaS Companies, Agencies and Service Professionals in mind.
Mentor
Apr 2022
Founded in 2007, our Techstars program has helped 160+ companies (who’ve raised $1B+) take their business to the next level. Follow us for news about our program and alumni.
2017
Board Member
Dec 2017
Fc Boulder Soccer Club is a sports company based out of 1480 Orchard Ave, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
2016
Investor / Advisor
Jun 2016
Brighter Vision builds beautiful custom websites for private practice owners, therapists, coaches & other mental health professionals for a fraction of the cost of standard web developers.
We've incorporated the best features from leading providers - plus created them where they didn't exist - and packaged them into a fully customized, mobile responsive website designed to market you and your practice.
With Brighter Vision, you get a $5,000+ website for a fraction of the cost.
2015
FOUNDER & PARTNER_Business + Legal
Dec 2015
We believe every brand should be a work in progress. Part ad agency, part innovation shop, we help companies boldly act, innovate and create to prove why they passionately exist. Then we use those actions to create powerful advertising.
www.wipbdr.com
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