Ryan Austin

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📍 Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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Investor and Advisor
Jan 2024
Designed by dentistry and created for today and tomorrows consumer, Stimmie is on a mission to change how things are designed and end the era of throwaway toothpicks. Making smarter and more meaningful modifications to todays utilitarian tools, inspired by patients and embarrassing moments.
Investor
Jul 2021
Life is complicated. Make retirement simple! Lendtable supplements your monthly income with the money you put toward your employee benefits. Max out your benefit and grow long-term wealth—with $0 out of your pocket. More benefits for you with less budgeting!
Investor
Mar 2021
Goodkind is the leading video-first student engagement platform. Send video messages to engage, excite and motivate prospective students to inquire, apply and accept. Learn more at www.goodkind.com
early stageHigher Education
Investor
Jan 2021
Stack & Sprout, a modern vertical gardening system for patios, tackles urban living challenges. As cities grow crowded, traditional gardens become scarcer, especially for apartment dwellers. Stack & Sprout simplifies gardening for condominium owners and only occupies a 1x1 square foot of space. Just stack our innovative modules to your desired height, insert a smart soil capsule with your chosen seed, and fill the water tank. Then, let the Stack & Sprout do the rest. Soon enough, youll be harvesting your very own fresh herbs and veggies for cooking, crafting cocktails, and more. Gardening has never been this much fun!
early stageHorticulture
Private Investor & Advisor
Jan 2021
Region VII AAA is part of the national network of Area Agencies on Aging, designed to manage and distribute and seek out funding for services for senior citizens and people with disabilities.
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2024
Investor and Advisor
Jan 2024
Designed by dentistry and created for today and tomorrows consumer, Stimmie is on a mission to change how things are designed and end the era of throwaway toothpicks. Making smarter and more meaningful modifications to todays utilitarian tools, inspired by patients and embarrassing moments.
2021
Investor
Jul 2021
Life is complicated. Make retirement simple! Lendtable supplements your monthly income with the money you put toward your employee benefits. Max out your benefit and grow long-term wealth—with $0 out of your pocket. More benefits for you with less budgeting!
Investor
Mar 2021
Goodkind is the leading video-first student engagement platform. Send video messages to engage, excite and motivate prospective students to inquire, apply and accept. Learn more at www.goodkind.com
early stageHigher Education
Investor
Jan 2021
Stack & Sprout, a modern vertical gardening system for patios, tackles urban living challenges. As cities grow crowded, traditional gardens become scarcer, especially for apartment dwellers. Stack & Sprout simplifies gardening for condominium owners and only occupies a 1x1 square foot of space. Just stack our innovative modules to your desired height, insert a smart soil capsule with your chosen seed, and fill the water tank. Then, let the Stack & Sprout do the rest. Soon enough, youll be harvesting your very own fresh herbs and veggies for cooking, crafting cocktails, and more. Gardening has never been this much fun!
early stageHorticulture
Private Investor & Advisor
Jan 2021
Region VII AAA is part of the national network of Area Agencies on Aging, designed to manage and distribute and seek out funding for services for senior citizens and people with disabilities.
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