Jack Shannon

CEO & Co-Founder at Recess - sampling & brand activations made easy

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2024
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Feb 2024
Built on the foundation of in-store spatial AI, Venvee provides Audience Enrichment and Audience Measurement for Retail Media Networks. Venvees technology produces an end-to-end understanding of in-store shopper journeys unlike anything the retail industry has seen before. Our CAPEX-free solution pioneers the latest advances in spatial deep learning to produce precise shopper pathing and action insights using only a retailer’s existing security cameras. The result is a continuous, uninterrupted story about a shopper’s complete in-store journey from entry to exit, inclusive of precise moment-to-moment location, impressions, interactions, and conversions for in-store products, features, and advertisements. This rich, biometrics-free dataset is used by retailers to produce new high-margin revenue streams from in-store traffic by precisely targeting shoppers using loyalty data + in-store intent resulting in more meaningful shopper engagement.
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Apr 2022
Everything you need to power your video app Modern web tooling and APIs have exploded in recent years. Payment, telephony, and compute toolkits have been made widely available, but video has lagged behind. Introducing Editframe, the missing video portion of every developers stack.
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2024
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Feb 2024
Built on the foundation of in-store spatial AI, Venvee provides Audience Enrichment and Audience Measurement for Retail Media Networks. Venvees technology produces an end-to-end understanding of in-store shopper journeys unlike anything the retail industry has seen before. Our CAPEX-free solution pioneers the latest advances in spatial deep learning to produce precise shopper pathing and action insights using only a retailer’s existing security cameras. The result is a continuous, uninterrupted story about a shopper’s complete in-store journey from entry to exit, inclusive of precise moment-to-moment location, impressions, interactions, and conversions for in-store products, features, and advertisements. This rich, biometrics-free dataset is used by retailers to produce new high-margin revenue streams from in-store traffic by precisely targeting shoppers using loyalty data + in-store intent resulting in more meaningful shopper engagement.
2022
Investor
Apr 2022
Everything you need to power your video app Modern web tooling and APIs have exploded in recent years. Payment, telephony, and compute toolkits have been made widely available, but video has lagged behind. Introducing Editframe, the missing video portion of every developers stack.
2019
CEO & Co-Founder
May 2019
Recess makes it easy for CPG brands and retailers to acquire loyal customers within trusted communities like Equinox, WeWork, and colleges at scale. Trusted by PepsiCo, General Mills, and Nestle, Recess helps brands drive velocity at retail with turnkey sampling partnerships that reach shoppers who frequent Target, Walmart, Kroger, and 6,000+ top retailers. With Recess, brands can attribute in-store purchases to these out-of-store activations to turn offline marketing into a performance channel.