Sangeeth Peruri

LTH is shaking up the travel sector by e-commercing travel through Influencers and content creators. 86% of all travelers choose their next vacation on social media. From there they are spending 10-20 hours of research on multiple websites to build the trip just presented to them. We are taking that point of discovery and making it bookable, allowing influencers to turn followers into customers through a white labeled booking engine. When travel content is the number 1 reason people follow influencers on social media, 15% higher than beauty and fashion, which has made MILLIONAIRES out of influencers we thought it smart to let influencers make some money on the MASSIVE amount of traffic they drive to the multi-trillion dollar travel sector.

Beyond 12 is a technology-based service nonprofit whose mission is to increase the number of historically underrepresented students who graduate from our nation’s colleges and universities. Through a longitudinal student tracking platform and a personalized student coaching service, we help high schools and colleges provide their students with the academic, social, and emotional support they need to succeed in higher education. By collecting and sharing longitudinal data that crosses the K-12 and higher education systems, Beyond 12 not only provides students with differentiated coaching that ensures they earn a college degree, but we also provide actionable feedback to high schools about their college preparatory efforts, inform the retention work of colleges and universities, and influence the national conversation about student success. Since our founding 7 years ago, we have validated our business model, confirmed that we are solving a meaningful problem, and demonstrated our ability to build a sustainable organization through earned revenue. Today, we have an operating budget of $4.2M, 28 full-time staff, and offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Atlanta. We are tracking the postsecondary progress of over 40,000 college students and coaching 2,000+ students. Having established a strong initial track record of success and on the heels of receiving national recognition for our innovative approach to addressing the college persistence challenge (Robin Hood College Success Prize finalist, Google Bay Area Impact Challenge winner, Xammy Award for best Social Impact app, one of Fast Company’s top 10 most innovative companies in education), we are well positioned to dramatically scale our efforts. For more information about our work, please visit www.beyond12.org

BDev Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund. We invest in fast-growing post-revenue B2B software companies, from Seed to Series B, as a minority investor with checks up to 3M USD. We are focused on startups operating in the US and LATAM. In addition to capital, we provide our portfolio companies with a proprietary lead generation platform that our founders built and refined. It helped bootstrap BairesDev to unicorn status. Because of the value we can add in reaching new customers, we work with startups that are ready to utilize that platform to the fullest.

LTH is shaking up the travel sector by e-commercing travel through Influencers and content creators. 86% of all travelers choose their next vacation on social media. From there they are spending 10-20 hours of research on multiple websites to build the trip just presented to them. We are taking that point of discovery and making it bookable, allowing influencers to turn followers into customers through a white labeled booking engine. When travel content is the number 1 reason people follow influencers on social media, 15% higher than beauty and fashion, which has made MILLIONAIRES out of influencers we thought it smart to let influencers make some money on the MASSIVE amount of traffic they drive to the multi-trillion dollar travel sector.

For those familiar with me, you know I cant sit still for long. Im constantly bouncing from one thing to the next, and thats exactly what you can expect here—writings on a variety of topics that span my varied experiences and interests. From investing, politics and education to health, fitness and philanthropy. My goal is to write articles that are helpful and thought proving on topics that I find interesting.

The Band of Angels is Silicon Valleys oldest seed funding organization. We are a formal group of more than 150 former and current high tech executives who are interested in investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, startup companies. Weve seeded over 277 companies in our history with 61 profitable M&A exits and 11 IPOs. Band members have founded companies such as Symantec, Logitech, and National Semiconductor and been senior executives at the likes of Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, and Intuit. The Band meets monthly to formally consider three startups selected from among the more than 50 that are screened each month by the Band Deal Selection Process. Entrepreneurs can expect a thorough examination and, occasionally, an investment from some of Silicon Valleys most accomplished entrepreneurs.

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