Steve Raack

Building Brands that Stand for Something | CEO, COO, Strategic Advisor, Board Member

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2024
VC🌍 United States
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Founder and Board Member
Feb 2024
LAs first and only dedicated pickleball club. Indoor / outdoor courts, podcast studio, 3k SF of event space, board room, athlete recovery lounge, beer garden, 2-story clubhouse, pro-shop powered by PickleballSuperstore.com. Lets go!
Investor and Board Member
Feb 2022
Pickleball Superstore is the #1 online destination for pickleball players to improve their game. Wide selection of pickleball paddles, shoes, balls, bags and more. Great pickleball court map locator, robust REWARDS program for loyal customers and the only give back program in the industry - we donate or recycle used paddles and shoes!!!! Do good, play well. Lets go!
early stageSpectator Sports
Investor
Jan 2021
Discover the magic of kava. Botanicals that give you energy, enhance focus and deliver a social lift.
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2018
Gigfiliate delivers modern compensation plans to help brands scale. Affiliate Marketing is good, but not great. MLM / Direct Selling is complex and an out of date model. Gigfiliate integrates the best of both worlds to power the next generation of super affiliate programs. Our SaaS platform is the only one of its kind to natively integrate with Shopify and WooCommerce. Our code is inside these industry leading shopping carts - better experience, more conversions, higher ROI. Let’s go!
Experience · 5 entries
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Founder (1)
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2024
Founder and Board Member
Feb 2024
LAs first and only dedicated pickleball club. Indoor / outdoor courts, podcast studio, 3k SF of event space, board room, athlete recovery lounge, beer garden, 2-story clubhouse, pro-shop powered by PickleballSuperstore.com. Lets go!
2022
Investor and Board Member
Feb 2022
Pickleball Superstore is the #1 online destination for pickleball players to improve their game. Wide selection of pickleball paddles, shoes, balls, bags and more. Great pickleball court map locator, robust REWARDS program for loyal customers and the only give back program in the industry - we donate or recycle used paddles and shoes!!!! Do good, play well. Lets go!
early stageSpectator Sports
2021
Investor
Jan 2021
Discover the magic of kava. Botanicals that give you energy, enhance focus and deliver a social lift.
2018
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2018
Gigfiliate delivers modern compensation plans to help brands scale. Affiliate Marketing is good, but not great. MLM / Direct Selling is complex and an out of date model. Gigfiliate integrates the best of both worlds to power the next generation of super affiliate programs. Our SaaS platform is the only one of its kind to natively integrate with Shopify and WooCommerce. Our code is inside these industry leading shopping carts - better experience, more conversions, higher ROI. Let’s go!
1994
Senior Consultant
Aug 1994
Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. When engaging with Accenture, we encourage everyone to: - Use common courtesy and be respectful of others. - Create your own original content and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent. - Never repost someone elses copyrighted work, unless you have permission. - Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts we deem to be: - Profane, obscene, inappropriate, offensive, abusive material. - Spam, repeated comments and commercial messages and personal advertisements. - Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. - Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization. - False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.
Investment activity
2018–2024 · 4 investments
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