Ryan Tipton

Operations, Sales, & Talent Management - Results-driven Executive with 20+ years of leading organizational transformation, staff/customer engagement, & growth.

📍 Dallas, Texas, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
Angel investor🌍 United States
3
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Investor
2018
With AppLearn Adopt, you can see how your people use your enterprise software and place real-time guidance in your apps to support them while they work. Market-leading organizations are already using it to help their people finish processes in half the time and double the likelihood of accurate task completions.
Investor
Feb 2017
At Shiftsmart, we’re building the future of labor. Labor is the largest problem facing employers today: companies are struggling to find workers, fill shifts, and retain workers. At the same time, the modern worker has dramatically evolved: they are digitally savvy, and prioritize flexibility and independence. We empower hourly workers to find more work, increase their earnings, and control their own schedules, while also enabling employers to increase fulfillment, reduce turnover, and improve quality. Our platform enables the largest companies and government agencies to fractionalize jobs into shifts and manage schedules, workers, and assignments all in one place. We’re on a mission to revolutionize hourly work and build the world’s leading platform for hourly workers – a $2 trillion industry in the US alone. Our platform powers the modern workforce with over 1.3 million workers (partners) in 57 countries performing diverse roles such as customer service, merchandising, lead generation, mystery shopping, and others at companies including Google, Deloitte, Circle K, and Facebook. We’ve raised over $120 million in funding from top-tier investors including D1 Capital Partners and Imaginary Ventures. Why Shiftsmart? 🌍 We’re global. Our platform powers the modern worker with over 1.4M+ workers in 57+ countries working with customers such as Google, Deloitte, Circle K, and Facebook. 🚀 We’re a rocketship. We’re tackling a $2 trillion industry in the US alone. We’ve grown our business 2-3x each year since we started, with $80M+ in wages paid to workers. We raised a $95m Series B in Dec 2021, and Fast Company ranked us #21 on their 2021 Top 50 Most Innovative Companies list. 🔥 We’re growing. We’re a remote-friendly team with 65+ team members across North America and an NYC HQ. We’re looking for rockstars like you to help write our next chapter!
Investor
Jun 2013
No CPAP, No Surgery, No Implants, Just Simple Sleep! Snoring and Sleep Apnea? Simple Sleep Services can help. Serving residents in the Dallas Ft. Worth Metroplex, we start with a one on one consultation and assessment of your individual needs to determine the best treatment of snoring and sleep apnea for you. We may facilitate the prescription of an easy-to-use home sleep test. If you have already had a sleep study and refused or failed to use your CPAP, then we will work with you to find the most comfortable, effective therapy to treat your sleep-disordered breathing. There are many treatments available for sleep apnea and snoring. At Simple Sleep Services we believe in starting most patients in the comfortable, fully reversible, non-surgical patient preferred solution of a custom fitted FDA cleared oral appliance. Schedule an appointment with one of our sleep experts today. We'll help you to find the solution to stop snoring and sleep better that works best for you.
early stageMedical Device
Experience · 5 entries
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Investments (3)
2018
Investor
2018
With AppLearn Adopt, you can see how your people use your enterprise software and place real-time guidance in your apps to support them while they work. Market-leading organizations are already using it to help their people finish processes in half the time and double the likelihood of accurate task completions.
2017
Investor
Feb 2017
At Shiftsmart, we’re building the future of labor. Labor is the largest problem facing employers today: companies are struggling to find workers, fill shifts, and retain workers. At the same time, the modern worker has dramatically evolved: they are digitally savvy, and prioritize flexibility and independence. We empower hourly workers to find more work, increase their earnings, and control their own schedules, while also enabling employers to increase fulfillment, reduce turnover, and improve quality. Our platform enables the largest companies and government agencies to fractionalize jobs into shifts and manage schedules, workers, and assignments all in one place. We’re on a mission to revolutionize hourly work and build the world’s leading platform for hourly workers – a $2 trillion industry in the US alone. Our platform powers the modern workforce with over 1.3 million workers (partners) in 57 countries performing diverse roles such as customer service, merchandising, lead generation, mystery shopping, and others at companies including Google, Deloitte, Circle K, and Facebook. We’ve raised over $120 million in funding from top-tier investors including D1 Capital Partners and Imaginary Ventures. Why Shiftsmart? 🌍 We’re global. Our platform powers the modern worker with over 1.4M+ workers in 57+ countries working with customers such as Google, Deloitte, Circle K, and Facebook. 🚀 We’re a rocketship. We’re tackling a $2 trillion industry in the US alone. We’ve grown our business 2-3x each year since we started, with $80M+ in wages paid to workers. We raised a $95m Series B in Dec 2021, and Fast Company ranked us #21 on their 2021 Top 50 Most Innovative Companies list. 🔥 We’re growing. We’re a remote-friendly team with 65+ team members across North America and an NYC HQ. We’re looking for rockstars like you to help write our next chapter!
2014
R. Tipton Holdings, LLC
Principal
Feb 2014
2013
Investor
Jun 2013
No CPAP, No Surgery, No Implants, Just Simple Sleep! Snoring and Sleep Apnea? Simple Sleep Services can help. Serving residents in the Dallas Ft. Worth Metroplex, we start with a one on one consultation and assessment of your individual needs to determine the best treatment of snoring and sleep apnea for you. We may facilitate the prescription of an easy-to-use home sleep test. If you have already had a sleep study and refused or failed to use your CPAP, then we will work with you to find the most comfortable, effective therapy to treat your sleep-disordered breathing. There are many treatments available for sleep apnea and snoring. At Simple Sleep Services we believe in starting most patients in the comfortable, fully reversible, non-surgical patient preferred solution of a custom fitted FDA cleared oral appliance. Schedule an appointment with one of our sleep experts today. We'll help you to find the solution to stop snoring and sleep better that works best for you.
early stageMedical Device
2000
Partner, Chief Talent Officer, Executive Vice President
Jun 2000
The Delta Companies is a nationally recognized leader in the staffing industry since 1997, offering permanent & temporary staffing solutions nationwide for physicians & healthcare professionals. Physician staffing services are represented by Delta Physician Placement and Delta Locum Tenens. All allied healthcare staffing services are represented by Delta Healthcare Providers.
Investment activity
2013–2018 · 3 investments
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