Richard Bowman

Founder & CEO, Ablinq

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2021
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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Seed Investor
Jun 2021
After working behind the scenes to launch numerous beauty startups we saw how the messaging behind skincare products can be confusing, biased, or even intentionally misleading. This leads to wasted time, money, and mediocre results stemming from a trial-and-error strategy. It also puts control in the hands of companies who benefit from millions of customers feeling confused and uncertain. We believe that women deserve better access to the tools they need to make informed decisions so we decided to build a powerful tool to help make that a reality: The Clean Skincare Quiz. So much more than another beauty evaluation, it aggregates and leverages data from scientific studies, ingredients, expert opinions, and user experiences to empower good decision making. As it gathers more responses it learns similarities between skin types and product usage patterns — becoming an even more powerful tool for personalized product recommendations.
Seed Investor
Sep 2020
The best all-in-one app that helps working parents get organized and share responsibilities. Recommended by The Wall Street Journal & named "App of the Day" by Apple and trusted by families all over the world.
Seed Investor
May 2015
We’re Grove Collaborative, your one-stop shop for brands you love and that love the planet. 340+ vetted brands We bring together innovative brands across cleaning, wellness, and more everyday essentials. Every brand on our “shelves” has met rigorous standards for efficacy, ingredients, ethics, and more social and environmental criteria, so you can shop with complete peace of mind. Plastic neutral Grove is the world’s first plastic neutral retailer. For every ounce of plastic packaging you purchase from Grove, we collect the same amount of nature-bound plastic pollution in partnership with rePurpose Global. CarbonNeutral® Certified We offset unpreventable emissions by financing external renewable energy and forest conservation projects. People & planet driven As a Certified B Corporation, we prioritize social, environmental, and community well-being over everything else. We’re always on the search for bright minds and go-getters with a passion for the planet. Sound like you? Check out our available positions at www.grove.com/careers.
mid stageRetail
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2024
CEO & Co-Founder
Jan 2024
Securing human interaction in an AI world. Highly experienced team, currently building in quiet mode.
2021
Seed Investor
Jun 2021
After working behind the scenes to launch numerous beauty startups we saw how the messaging behind skincare products can be confusing, biased, or even intentionally misleading. This leads to wasted time, money, and mediocre results stemming from a trial-and-error strategy. It also puts control in the hands of companies who benefit from millions of customers feeling confused and uncertain. We believe that women deserve better access to the tools they need to make informed decisions so we decided to build a powerful tool to help make that a reality: The Clean Skincare Quiz. So much more than another beauty evaluation, it aggregates and leverages data from scientific studies, ingredients, expert opinions, and user experiences to empower good decision making. As it gathers more responses it learns similarities between skin types and product usage patterns — becoming an even more powerful tool for personalized product recommendations.
2020
Seed Investor
Sep 2020
The best all-in-one app that helps working parents get organized and share responsibilities. Recommended by The Wall Street Journal & named "App of the Day" by Apple and trusted by families all over the world.
2015
Seed Investor
May 2015
We’re Grove Collaborative, your one-stop shop for brands you love and that love the planet. 340+ vetted brands We bring together innovative brands across cleaning, wellness, and more everyday essentials. Every brand on our “shelves” has met rigorous standards for efficacy, ingredients, ethics, and more social and environmental criteria, so you can shop with complete peace of mind. Plastic neutral Grove is the world’s first plastic neutral retailer. For every ounce of plastic packaging you purchase from Grove, we collect the same amount of nature-bound plastic pollution in partnership with rePurpose Global. CarbonNeutral® Certified We offset unpreventable emissions by financing external renewable energy and forest conservation projects. People & planet driven As a Certified B Corporation, we prioritize social, environmental, and community well-being over everything else. We’re always on the search for bright minds and go-getters with a passion for the planet. Sound like you? Check out our available positions at www.grove.com/careers.
mid stageRetail
2007
APAC, Partner Account Director
Nov 2007
Symantec.cloud is a management platform that helps businesses administer, monitor, and protect enterprise information resources more effectively. Our hosted services assist IT leaders in their effort to: Provide a secure computing environment Enforce acceptable use and regulatory policies Deliver ongoing access to critical applications Drive cost efficiencies into their organizations More than 11 million end users at more than 33,000 organisations ranging from small businesses to the Fortune 500 use Symantec.cloud to secure and manage information stored on endpoints and delivered via email, Web, and instant messaging. A division within Symantec Corporation, Symantec.cloud offers customers the ability to work more productively in a connected world. Today’s solutions from Symantec.cloud include: Symantec Email Security.cloud Symantec Email Encryption.cloud Symantec Email Archiving.cloud Symantec Email Continuity.cloud Symantec Web Security.cloud Symantec Instant Messaging Security.cloud Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013 Symantec Backup Exec.cloud
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