Thad Langford

Venture investor

📍 Kansas City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
11
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7
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0
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Board Member
2022
We harness the power of behavioral science to help bank and credit union customers manage their finances. This enhances banks’ customer relationships, grows their business opportunities, and strengthens their brand.
Board Observer
2020
TripleBlind has created the most complete and scalable solution for privacy enhancing computation. The TripleBlind solution is software-only and delivered via a simple API. It solves for a broad range of use cases, with current focus on healthcare and financial services. The company is backed by Accenture, General Catalyst and The Mayo Clinic. TripleBlind’s innovations build on well understood principles, such as federated learning and multi-party compute. Our innovations radically improve the practical use of privacy preserving technologies, by adding true scalability and faster processing, with support for all data and algorithm types. We support all cloud platforms and unlock the intellectual property value of data, while preserving privacy and ensuring compliance with all known data privacy and data residency standards, such as HIPAA and GDPR. TripleBlind compares favorably with existing methods of privacy preserving technology, such as homomorphic encryption, synthetic data and tokenization and has documented use cases for more than two dozen mission critical business problems.
Board Member
2019
Achieve 7x faster organic growth than the industry average by partnering with us! Over 7,000 financial advisors and 200 leading financial enterprises use Snappy Kraken to: 💥 Build, launch, & measure marketing programs 💥 Enhance recruiting and retention 💥 Surface actionable data 💥 Stay compliant 💥 Drive growth Snappy Kraken is the Most Innovative Marketing Platform for Advisors (Financial Planning Magazine, 2024) and the Most Integrated Marketing Platform overall (Kitces.com, 2024). We drive growth by helping advisors implement a proven strategy to: 1) Get Noticed (Brand Building, Website, Social Media) 2) Grow Audience (Lead Generation, Opt-In Tactics) 3) Start Conversations (Lead Nurturing by Email and Text Messages) 4) Win Clients (Sales Enablement, Lead Enrichment, Lead Scoring) 5) Create Lifelong Fans (Client Communications and Onboarding) 6) Generate Referrals (Referral Campaigns and Event Automation) All content, campaigns, automation, and fulfillment can be customized by firms and enterprises with more than 10 advisors. “I can honestly say Snappy Kraken is the easiest and most impactful system I’ve used in my over 25 years in the industry.” - Mark Silverman, CFP® Lets talk about how we can help you accelerate your organic growth rate! Initial consulting is free.
Board Member
2018
Threatcare is the leader in proactive attack simulations, helping companies measure the effectiveness of their cybersecurity programs through their software. Their real-time insights and actionable recommendations enable companies to secure more faster, while having greater confidence in their current security controls. ReliaQuest’s recent acquisition of Threatcare will enhance the power of the ReliaQuest GreyMatter platform by enabling enterprise customers to vastly increase the quality and efficacy of their detection and response capabilities.
Board Member
2018
DemandJump is a marketing strategy platform showing you the exact content to create to increase 1st-page rankings and drive outcomes.
Board Observer
2016
Rentable is a technology company offering both advertising (Rentable.co) and competitive intelligence solutions (ApartmentIQ) to multifamily property management companies. Our advertising suite includes a network of listing sites including Rentable.co as well as a ChatGPT plugin for rental search, industry leading social ad technology, and AI driven local SEO products focused on optimizing property level Google Business Profiles. Our competitive intelligence product, ApartmentIQ, is the industry’s only source of daily, unit-level competitive intelligence. We track over 31M units delivering the most accurate, up-to-date rent rate and leasing data available to multifamily operators today. We want to alert you to potential recruiting scams targeting job seekers. Please note that our company will never request payment, personal information, or any confidential details during the interview process. If you receive such requests, they are fraudulent and should be reported right away.
Board Member
2015
Opendorse is the leading athlete marketplace and NIL technology company. Our industry-leading NIL solutions help athletes and their supporters understand, build, protect, and monetize their brand value. More than 100K+ athletes and 1K+ of the biggest organizations in sports use Opendorse to support athletes and build their brands. Have a question or want to start a conversation? Click below and give us a shout! Lincoln, NE | New York, NY | Denver, CO
Board Member
2015
Bulu adds and optimizes subscription together with fulfillment and logistics for small to big brands like Disney, Clorox and Buzzfeed. Created in 2011 and launched in 2012, and pioneering the Subscription Box industry our flagship program, Bulu Box, was one of the first Subscription Boxes to the market, as Subscription Box #6. Find more at www.bulugroup.com.
Board Member
2012
ZOLOZ is a global leading technology service provider for AI-powered Digital Identity Verification Solutions to verify and authenticate end users. ZOLOZ‘s world-leading digital identity products, powered by proprietary anti-spoofing algorithms, have been widely used in financial institutions. ZOLOZ is committed to leverage on state-of-art artificial intelligence algorithms and strong industry know-how to make trust simple for hundreds of millions of individuals and companies.
Experience · 16 entries
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Investments (11)
Founder (2)
Board (10)
2022
Board Member
2022
We harness the power of behavioral science to help bank and credit union customers manage their finances. This enhances banks’ customer relationships, grows their business opportunities, and strengthens their brand.
2020
Board Observer
2020
TripleBlind has created the most complete and scalable solution for privacy enhancing computation. The TripleBlind solution is software-only and delivered via a simple API. It solves for a broad range of use cases, with current focus on healthcare and financial services. The company is backed by Accenture, General Catalyst and The Mayo Clinic. TripleBlind’s innovations build on well understood principles, such as federated learning and multi-party compute. Our innovations radically improve the practical use of privacy preserving technologies, by adding true scalability and faster processing, with support for all data and algorithm types. We support all cloud platforms and unlock the intellectual property value of data, while preserving privacy and ensuring compliance with all known data privacy and data residency standards, such as HIPAA and GDPR. TripleBlind compares favorably with existing methods of privacy preserving technology, such as homomorphic encryption, synthetic data and tokenization and has documented use cases for more than two dozen mission critical business problems.
2019
Board Member
2019
Achieve 7x faster organic growth than the industry average by partnering with us! Over 7,000 financial advisors and 200 leading financial enterprises use Snappy Kraken to: 💥 Build, launch, & measure marketing programs 💥 Enhance recruiting and retention 💥 Surface actionable data 💥 Stay compliant 💥 Drive growth Snappy Kraken is the Most Innovative Marketing Platform for Advisors (Financial Planning Magazine, 2024) and the Most Integrated Marketing Platform overall (Kitces.com, 2024). We drive growth by helping advisors implement a proven strategy to: 1) Get Noticed (Brand Building, Website, Social Media) 2) Grow Audience (Lead Generation, Opt-In Tactics) 3) Start Conversations (Lead Nurturing by Email and Text Messages) 4) Win Clients (Sales Enablement, Lead Enrichment, Lead Scoring) 5) Create Lifelong Fans (Client Communications and Onboarding) 6) Generate Referrals (Referral Campaigns and Event Automation) All content, campaigns, automation, and fulfillment can be customized by firms and enterprises with more than 10 advisors. “I can honestly say Snappy Kraken is the easiest and most impactful system I’ve used in my over 25 years in the industry.” - Mark Silverman, CFP® Lets talk about how we can help you accelerate your organic growth rate! Initial consulting is free.
2018
Board Member
2018
Threatcare is the leader in proactive attack simulations, helping companies measure the effectiveness of their cybersecurity programs through their software. Their real-time insights and actionable recommendations enable companies to secure more faster, while having greater confidence in their current security controls. ReliaQuest’s recent acquisition of Threatcare will enhance the power of the ReliaQuest GreyMatter platform by enabling enterprise customers to vastly increase the quality and efficacy of their detection and response capabilities.
Threatcare (acquired by Reliaquest)
Board Member
2018
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