Richard Hearn

CEO, Chairman, PE & VC Investor, Board Member, Operator, Serial Entrepreneur, Fortune 500 Executive

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Investor and Board Member
Dec 2025
Arkhive is setting a new standard for enterprise commerce solutions, bringing forward best-in-class knowledge—curated, refined, and proven—to the eCommerce ecosystem. Where strategy and execution move as one, every decision is intentional, and every solution is built for performance today and resilience tomorrow.
Investor and Board Member
2024
Billfold is "The solution for live entertainment operators." We go beyond the transaction with one POS & advertising solution to manage all customer payments and interaction points at live events. As former operators, we understand the needs and the challenges of the live entertainment industry. Our track record successfully speaks for itself with over 900+ recurring partnerships across a variety of venues, festivals, and events. Expanding globally we have established partnerships in the USA, Australia, Mexico, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Canada & Russia. Billfold’s objectives are simple: increase revenue, dig deeper and understand your customers journey. Reduce operational headaches, administration, and costs and ensure a seamless, simple, and efficient experience for all stakeholders including; customers, sponsors, and of course management. Billfold Benefits: - Fastest transaction on market, under 2 seconds - 20-second one-time-only onsite or online wristband activation - Increase onsite revenues from a minimum of 20% up to a staggering 79% - Innovative dual-screen design with a built-in advertising solution - Customer transparency & engagement at every step of the way - Track real-time reporting and analytics throughout your event - Fast and easy implementations with experienced Sr. IT Staff onsite - Staff & Management love it: easy to use, no cash, no change, no risk, no admin, no bank cards, big tips! - Need flexibility? Billfold can accept all payment types at the point of sale including RFID, Bank Cards, Cash, NFC, and QR Codes - Cash accountability? Add Top-Up Terminals for Cash loading onto RFID wristbands
Investor and Board Member
2024
At Congruity Health, we are dedicated to optimizing patient care through innovative technology. Our AI-driven solutions seamlessly connect patients with the right care at the right time, enhancing health outcomes and reducing overall healthcare costs. By focusing on proactive health management and personalized engagement, we empower self-funded health plans to make informed decisions and achieve better value in their healthcare investments.
Investor / Board Member Stackla (acquired by Nosto in 2021)
Oct 2018
Experience Intelligent Commerce Nosto is the intelligent Commerce Experience Platform (CXP) that gives brands and retailers intuitively designed tools to increase online revenue through end-to-end commerce experience management. With experience.AI™, Nosto helps brands enrich and activate customer, product and content data in real-time across personalization, product discovery, and user-generated content to deliver high-performing commerce experiences at scale. Nosto supports intelligent commerce experiences for more than 1,500 brands in over 100 countries, including Kylie Cosmetics, Dermalogica, Belstaff, The Travel Corporation, BYLT Basics, Douglas, MUJI, Flight Center, Lord and Taylor, Vuori, FIGS and more.
Investor and Board Member
Apr 2018
Rollio AI transforms Salesforce from a database into a productive assistant for Sales and Service teams. By allowing users to enter hours of data in minutes via voice or text, and with Process Workflow Automation via on-screen intelligence: sales and service reps get back hours of time and companies capture perfect CRM data for forecasting and insights.
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2026
Founder
Jun 2026
Bonfiyah is the AI conversation-memory app for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It records in-person conversations, transcribes on-device, and reasons across your entire history — tracking promises, catching contradictions, and briefing you before your next meeting. Two-party consent built in to every tier.
2025
Investor and Board Member
Dec 2025
Arkhive is setting a new standard for enterprise commerce solutions, bringing forward best-in-class knowledge—curated, refined, and proven—to the eCommerce ecosystem. Where strategy and execution move as one, every decision is intentional, and every solution is built for performance today and resilience tomorrow.
CEO, Chairman, Lead Investor (Bambu Capital)
Dec 2025
Our mission is to not only break down the barriers that limit people from getting quality healthcare, but to transform the primary care experience and make personalized healthcare, powered by genetic and non-genetic data, a reality. We’re changing healthcare by offering on-demand telehealth services and building a unique healthcare platform that focuses on prevention and wellness. We foster a collaborative environment where every team member is essential to our mission. By joining the team, your impact will be felt from day one. We’re making a difference in one of the most rapidly-growing industries and we need curious, collaborative and driven people like you to help us change the future of healthcare.
2024
Founder and General Partner
Jan 2024
Our venture capital group is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and small businesses succeed. We provide a marketing ecosystem and expertise to help you reach your goals and maximize your potential by aligning you with former founders AND the BambuMeta capabilities. We identify, screen, select and source startups by our “Contribution Effect”, which identifies synergy and how we can drive YOUR success based on our team and with the help of the BambuMeta platform. Normal VC’s take a small amount of equity with a 5% chance of success and hope to win big in 1 of 20. We challenge that status quo!
Independent Board Member
2024
TeamSupport is the premier ticketing and live chat solution designed for support teams looking to improve customer engagement and make agents’ lives easier. Our intuitive, AI-powered platform allows teams to spend less time on manual tasks and more time building stronger relationships with customers. TeamSupport allows agents to connect relevant teams, access valuable customer insights, and solve complex issues with less time and effort which ultimately improves customer satisfaction.
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