Robert Swarthout

Founder of a crypto hedge fund focused on commercial use-case cryptocurrencies.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2021
VC🌍 United States
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Investor
May 2021
Infinite Giving transforms nonprofit finance through seamless technology and thoughtful stewardship. We partner with nonprofit teams and boards of all sizes to help them receive donations, invest assets, and manage cash reserves efficiently. As a modern, tech-enabled financial platform, we strive to make financial tools accessible and provide guidance through easy, streamlined processes. We protect an organizations greatest resources, time and money, by growing their giving through technology with a human touch. Put simply, we democratize financial aspects of giving that empower nonprofits on their journey to greater impact. Disclosure Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc. is a registered investment adviser in the States of Georgia, California, Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc. and its representatives are properly licensed or exempt from licensure. Our firm may not transact business in states where it is not appropriately registered, excluded or exempted from registration. This website is solely for informational purposes. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Individualized responses to persons that involve either the effecting of transactions in securities, or the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation, will not be made without registration or exemption. Investing involves risk and possible loss of principal capital. No advice may be rendered by Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc. unless a client service agreement is in place. Donation services provided by Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc.
Investor
Mar 2021
We are the next generation of startup accelerator. TinySeed was started by Rob Walling and Einar Vollset, two serial entrepreneurs who saw a gap in the ability for non-unicorn startups to raise early-stage funding. So we decided to fix that. We announced in late 2018, and the response was beyond anything we imagined. Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses... it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding. That’s the moment we knew we were onto something. TinySeed is an accelerator, but it’s remote, runs for a full year, focuses on SaaS, and “non-unicorns” (companies that don’t aspire to grow at all costs to reach a $1B valuation). To venture capitalists, a company doing $10m in annual revenue is a miss. To us, it’s a great business.
Board Member
Dec 2018
Founded in 2010, ShootProof is a user-friendly, technology-enabled platform that allows photographers to share and sell their work commission-free. ShootProof is a one-stop-shop for photographers around the world, offering a suite of professional tools to address all of their business needs, including online photo proofing, customizable password-protected galleries, mobile apps, invoicing, contracts, credit card processing (payment facilitator) and printing through its extensive network of partner labs. Tens of thousands of photographers in 38 countries use ShootProof’s galleries and services, which are available in 18 languages. ShootProof’s vision is to become the global leading SaaS platform for photographers to run successful and sustainable businesses. In December 2018, ShootProof secured a strategic investment from Providence Strategic Growth (PSG), the growth equity affiliate of Providence Equity Partners, a global private equity firm with more than $50 billion in assets under management, to drive continued expansion of ShootProof’s business and vision. PSG focuses on growth equity investments in lower middle market software and technology-enabled service companies, primarily in North America.
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Experience · 5 entries
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2021
Founder, CEO & Portfolio Manager
Aug 2021
Cryptocurrency investment fund manager.
Investor
May 2021
Infinite Giving transforms nonprofit finance through seamless technology and thoughtful stewardship. We partner with nonprofit teams and boards of all sizes to help them receive donations, invest assets, and manage cash reserves efficiently. As a modern, tech-enabled financial platform, we strive to make financial tools accessible and provide guidance through easy, streamlined processes. We protect an organizations greatest resources, time and money, by growing their giving through technology with a human touch. Put simply, we democratize financial aspects of giving that empower nonprofits on their journey to greater impact. Disclosure Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc. is a registered investment adviser in the States of Georgia, California, Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc. and its representatives are properly licensed or exempt from licensure. Our firm may not transact business in states where it is not appropriately registered, excluded or exempted from registration. This website is solely for informational purposes. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Individualized responses to persons that involve either the effecting of transactions in securities, or the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation, will not be made without registration or exemption. Investing involves risk and possible loss of principal capital. No advice may be rendered by Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc. unless a client service agreement is in place. Donation services provided by Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc.
Investor
Mar 2021
We are the next generation of startup accelerator. TinySeed was started by Rob Walling and Einar Vollset, two serial entrepreneurs who saw a gap in the ability for non-unicorn startups to raise early-stage funding. So we decided to fix that. We announced in late 2018, and the response was beyond anything we imagined. Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses... it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding. That’s the moment we knew we were onto something. TinySeed is an accelerator, but it’s remote, runs for a full year, focuses on SaaS, and “non-unicorns” (companies that don’t aspire to grow at all costs to reach a $1B valuation). To venture capitalists, a company doing $10m in annual revenue is a miss. To us, it’s a great business.
2018
Board Member
Dec 2018
Founded in 2010, ShootProof is a user-friendly, technology-enabled platform that allows photographers to share and sell their work commission-free. ShootProof is a one-stop-shop for photographers around the world, offering a suite of professional tools to address all of their business needs, including online photo proofing, customizable password-protected galleries, mobile apps, invoicing, contracts, credit card processing (payment facilitator) and printing through its extensive network of partner labs. Tens of thousands of photographers in 38 countries use ShootProof’s galleries and services, which are available in 18 languages. ShootProof’s vision is to become the global leading SaaS platform for photographers to run successful and sustainable businesses. In December 2018, ShootProof secured a strategic investment from Providence Strategic Growth (PSG), the growth equity affiliate of Providence Equity Partners, a global private equity firm with more than $50 billion in assets under management, to drive continued expansion of ShootProof’s business and vision. PSG focuses on growth equity investments in lower middle market software and technology-enabled service companies, primarily in North America.
late stagePhotography
Investment activity
2018–2021 · 3 investments
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