Ross Kimbel

General Partner at Silicon Road Ventures

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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Board Member
Feb 2026
REP AI is a revolutionary plug-and-play solution designed to transform how e-commerce businesses engage with their customers. Seamlessly integrating with Shopify, REP AI automatically reads your website, learning everything it needs to provide accurate, contextually relevant responses to shoppers—without requiring any configuration. With results like a 250% increase in conversion rates, 40% increase in Average Order Value and handling 95% of all support inquires, REP AI empowers merchants to boost sales, enhance customer satisfaction, and scale effortlessly, making it the go-to tool for businesses aiming to thrive.
Board Member
Aug 2025
i-Genies AI consumer insights platform empowers leading brands and retailers like Kenvue, Unilever, Bayer, Clorox and Coca-Cola to identify the ‘Next Big Thing’ - faster, cheaper AND better. The world today is inundated with data, and yet insights are as hard as ever to distill from all the noise. Consumers are constantly talking about you, but not necessarily to you. i-Genie synthesizes billions of searches, social and video posts, ratings and reviews and market data into intuitive data dashboards wrapped with Presto, a GenAI copilot that lets you ask any question and ... Presto, you have the answer. With i-Genie, executives, analysts and insights professionals can say to their internal stakeholders "I have the answers. What is your question?" i-Genie empowers brands and retailers: 1. Spot product, ingredient and benefit trends 4-6 months earlier 2. Monitor Brand Health continuously, cost-effectively and in time to react 3. Benchmark product performance vs competition at SKU level and by retailer 4. Identify, qualify and size breakthrough innovation ideas, increasing product success rates and reducing innovation cycles from 12-18 months to 2-3 weeks. 5. All in an all-access AI data platform with data dashboards, robust data exports, and easy to use GenAI copilots More powerful and detailed data from true voice of the customer. Faster decision cycles. Less expensive than surveys, focus groups and last century techniques. Unlimited seats and access to democratize insights across the org. i-Genie is AI - Augmented Intelligence - democratizing powerful consumer insights to enable brands and retailers to identify their “Next Big Thing.”
Board Member
Aug 2024
Increasing access to capital, connections, and coaching for underserved and unserved entrepreneurs to empower innovation and entrepreneurship. The ACCESS Georgia Foundation sets the stage for success for founders by increasing access to resources for early- stage entrepreneurs.
Board Observer
Jun 2024
mesur.io helps enterprises identify supply chain risks before they happen. We illuminate and monitor supply chains, back to their raw materials, and provide a risk score that measures the ability of a supplier to deliver a particular product. Our risk score is the defacto standard for enterprises to measure risk and resilience in their supply chains, and enables action at every level of the organization.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Software teams are built to move fast—so why is testing always slowing them down? Bottlenecks delay releases. Bugs slip through unnoticed. Tech debt piles up. The result? Frustration, rework, and lost momentum. That’s why we built MuukTest—to take testing off your plate and out of your way. With Amikoo, our AI agent, and expert QA architects, we entirely automate test creation, execution, and maintenance—so you get instant, reliable feedback without the hassle. We’re not just automating tests; we’re building the test factory that keeps your development cycle fast, smooth, and worry-free: ✅ Trustworthy – Robust tests that adapt to minor software changes ⚡ Instantaneous – Rapid, reliable feedback on every build 🔍 Quality-Focused – Meaningful defect detection, not just test execution 😊 Customer Happiness – Easy onboarding, sustained metrics, and a seamless development flow With MuukTest, your team moves faster, catches defects earlier, and ships with confidence—every single time. 🚀
Board Observer
Mar 2024
AI Lead Qualification as a Service (LQaaS). Qualify your inbound leads from every channel, labor-free.
Board Member
Jan 2024
Knit is the AI-Native Research Agency. We combine the rigor of a traditional agency with the speed of AI — helping insights teams go from scoping to story in a week or less. Our Researcher-Driven AI approach delivers agency-quality insights, not generic AI outputs, built on sound methodology and your unique business context. Run quant + qual research in a single study across a wide range of research use cases. Trusted by Amazon, ESPN, Mars Wrigley, T-Mobile, and more. With quant and qual integrated into a single study, Knit delivers AI-generated surveys, automated analysis, and rich, editable reporting—all refined by real humans—to give you a full, nuanced picture of your consumer.
late stageMarket Research
Board Member
Sep 2023
Know which brands & products are winning, losing, and why. Daash is a new, next generation commerce intelligence platform for the prestige beauty, personal care, and health & wellness industries. Think traditional intelligence tools but without the frustrating limitations. 🙂 We’re enabling leading brands to track and understand the sales performance of competitor’s products and SKUs within brick & mortar retailers, including exclusive brands and products.
Board Member
May 2022
Wripple is Marketing’s On-Demand Talent Platform. Founded by agency veterans, Wripple is 100% dedicated to providing marketers with boundless possibilities to create high-performing blended teams with greater speed, flexibility, and efficiency. Our Private Talent Marketplace, powered by advanced proprietary software with generative AI, connects vetted on-demand talent with top brands, in real time. For all your staffing priorities, hire contractors across 50+ roles to fully fold into your team. For project-based work, engage individual freelancers or ready-made teams curated to tackle a wide range of initiatives. Whatever your need, Wripple has you covered. Wripples software simplifies and automates the entire hiring process. Set search criteria, find matches immediately, interview talent, and kick off in as little as 24 hours. Wripple handles compliance, onboarding, and administrative HR duties, like payment and insurance. Wripple Client Leads, all former agency professionals, are available throughout the process to ensure everyone is set up for success. And to maintain valuable relationships with on-demand talent, use Wripple’s Private Talent Pools. Whether sourced by Wripple or directly by you, Wripple offers the convenience of organizing all on-demand talent on a single platform. With talent pools, directly invite saved talent to propose on projects, easily re-hire for new projects, and view talent history with your company, all in one place. Learn how Wripple can help you build and manage a high-performing modern marketing workforce of blended teams.
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May 2021
A faster and more affordable background check solution. Turn is designed to help high-volume employers screen workers. As a leading API-first background check platform we specialize in supporting talent platforms, agencies and employers in 30+ industries across the U.S. and Canada. In addition, Turn offers tailored plans to suit your needs, whether you are a start-up in the on-demand space or a category leader, Turn is designed to grow with you – providing the features and flexibility you need at every stage.
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2026
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Feb 2026
REP AI is a revolutionary plug-and-play solution designed to transform how e-commerce businesses engage with their customers. Seamlessly integrating with Shopify, REP AI automatically reads your website, learning everything it needs to provide accurate, contextually relevant responses to shoppers—without requiring any configuration. With results like a 250% increase in conversion rates, 40% increase in Average Order Value and handling 95% of all support inquires, REP AI empowers merchants to boost sales, enhance customer satisfaction, and scale effortlessly, making it the go-to tool for businesses aiming to thrive.
2025
Board Member
Aug 2025
i-Genies AI consumer insights platform empowers leading brands and retailers like Kenvue, Unilever, Bayer, Clorox and Coca-Cola to identify the ‘Next Big Thing’ - faster, cheaper AND better. The world today is inundated with data, and yet insights are as hard as ever to distill from all the noise. Consumers are constantly talking about you, but not necessarily to you. i-Genie synthesizes billions of searches, social and video posts, ratings and reviews and market data into intuitive data dashboards wrapped with Presto, a GenAI copilot that lets you ask any question and ... Presto, you have the answer. With i-Genie, executives, analysts and insights professionals can say to their internal stakeholders "I have the answers. What is your question?" i-Genie empowers brands and retailers: 1. Spot product, ingredient and benefit trends 4-6 months earlier 2. Monitor Brand Health continuously, cost-effectively and in time to react 3. Benchmark product performance vs competition at SKU level and by retailer 4. Identify, qualify and size breakthrough innovation ideas, increasing product success rates and reducing innovation cycles from 12-18 months to 2-3 weeks. 5. All in an all-access AI data platform with data dashboards, robust data exports, and easy to use GenAI copilots More powerful and detailed data from true voice of the customer. Faster decision cycles. Less expensive than surveys, focus groups and last century techniques. Unlimited seats and access to democratize insights across the org. i-Genie is AI - Augmented Intelligence - democratizing powerful consumer insights to enable brands and retailers to identify their “Next Big Thing.”
2024
Board Member
Aug 2024
Increasing access to capital, connections, and coaching for underserved and unserved entrepreneurs to empower innovation and entrepreneurship. The ACCESS Georgia Foundation sets the stage for success for founders by increasing access to resources for early- stage entrepreneurs.
Board Observer
Jun 2024
mesur.io helps enterprises identify supply chain risks before they happen. We illuminate and monitor supply chains, back to their raw materials, and provide a risk score that measures the ability of a supplier to deliver a particular product. Our risk score is the defacto standard for enterprises to measure risk and resilience in their supply chains, and enables action at every level of the organization.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Software teams are built to move fast—so why is testing always slowing them down? Bottlenecks delay releases. Bugs slip through unnoticed. Tech debt piles up. The result? Frustration, rework, and lost momentum. That’s why we built MuukTest—to take testing off your plate and out of your way. With Amikoo, our AI agent, and expert QA architects, we entirely automate test creation, execution, and maintenance—so you get instant, reliable feedback without the hassle. We’re not just automating tests; we’re building the test factory that keeps your development cycle fast, smooth, and worry-free: ✅ Trustworthy – Robust tests that adapt to minor software changes ⚡ Instantaneous – Rapid, reliable feedback on every build 🔍 Quality-Focused – Meaningful defect detection, not just test execution 😊 Customer Happiness – Easy onboarding, sustained metrics, and a seamless development flow With MuukTest, your team moves faster, catches defects earlier, and ships with confidence—every single time. 🚀
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