Tom Higley

Advisor, Mentor, & CEO. Interests: AI-driven change, implications, and impact. Political, social, and economic transitions and transformation.

📍 Boulder, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 3 investments📅 25 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2015𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Jun 2015
Prime Health is a nationally leading ecosystem of healthcare administrators, providers, entrepreneurs, investors, technologists and academics dedicated to improving healthcare delivery through digital health innovation. Join us: http://www.meetup.com/Prime-Health/?https=off
Board Member
Feb 2014
kula has revolutionized fundraising and cause marketing through its best in class fundraising platform and a shop, earn, and donate ecosystem. kula connects brands to schools, causes, and supporters and turns everyday spending into an easy way to earn and donate money and drive consumer engagement. For businesses who want to engage consumers, kula's cause marketing platform and Shop, Earn, Donate (SED) ecosystem leverages buyers’ values to drive new customer acquisition, spend, and loyalty. kula provides businesses’ cause marketing efforts with an easy, cost-effective, and profitable way to give back to the community, and fosters a sense of corporate social responsibility. Brands earn additional exposure with the potential to increase market share while creating a sense of doing-good within local communities. Businesses have multiple engagement options with kula, from becoming an online merchant to supporting in-store purchase earning to adding KULA as an option for point redemption in loyalty programs. As consumers become more socially conscious and increasingly want to do business with socially responsible companies, having a way for consumers to actively engage and donate through your company can become a competitive advantage. This type of cause marketing is more engaging and compelling for consumers than corporate event sponsorship or charitable donations. For schools and causes, kula takes the friction out of fundraising – no more selling wrapping paper and raffle tickets. Instead, supporters of schools and causes sign up with kula and earn money while they shop, book travel, buy or exchange gift cards, and earn points through loyalty programs. Fundraising management with kula is easy and entirely online. kula wants to make it easier than ever for fundraisers, supporters, and businesses to seamlessly work together to raise money for schools and causes.
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2015
Board Member
Jun 2015
Prime Health is a nationally leading ecosystem of healthcare administrators, providers, entrepreneurs, investors, technologists and academics dedicated to improving healthcare delivery through digital health innovation. Join us: http://www.meetup.com/Prime-Health/?https=off
Founder & CEO
Jan 2015
X Genesis is the future of new venture generation. We leverage great entrepreneurs and the investors who supply capital to address the world’s wicked problems. With our help, entrepreneurs turn wicked problems into extraordinary opportunities. We deliver impact and ROI through process, programs, and a platform supporting the creation of new ventures that attract catalytic capital.
2014
Board Member
Feb 2014
kula has revolutionized fundraising and cause marketing through its best in class fundraising platform and a shop, earn, and donate ecosystem. kula connects brands to schools, causes, and supporters and turns everyday spending into an easy way to earn and donate money and drive consumer engagement. For businesses who want to engage consumers, kula's cause marketing platform and Shop, Earn, Donate (SED) ecosystem leverages buyers’ values to drive new customer acquisition, spend, and loyalty. kula provides businesses’ cause marketing efforts with an easy, cost-effective, and profitable way to give back to the community, and fosters a sense of corporate social responsibility. Brands earn additional exposure with the potential to increase market share while creating a sense of doing-good within local communities. Businesses have multiple engagement options with kula, from becoming an online merchant to supporting in-store purchase earning to adding KULA as an option for point redemption in loyalty programs. As consumers become more socially conscious and increasingly want to do business with socially responsible companies, having a way for consumers to actively engage and donate through your company can become a competitive advantage. This type of cause marketing is more engaging and compelling for consumers than corporate event sponsorship or charitable donations. For schools and causes, kula takes the friction out of fundraising – no more selling wrapping paper and raffle tickets. Instead, supporters of schools and causes sign up with kula and earn money while they shop, book travel, buy or exchange gift cards, and earn points through loyalty programs. Fundraising management with kula is easy and entirely online. kula wants to make it easier than ever for fundraisers, supporters, and businesses to seamlessly work together to raise money for schools and causes.
2012
Founder & CEO
May 2012
"Market-driven solutions to the world's Wicked Problems"​ We invite entrepreneurs with significant prior success to spend • 10 Days as one of an exclusive group of • 10 Prospective CEOs exploring solutions to • 10 Wicked Problems with huge market opportunity If you're an entrepreneur searching for your next venture and wish to be considered for an exclusive invitation, please provide your information: https://forms.gle/56WicUskWbuGENnN8 The first 10.10.10 program, 10.10.10 Health, focused on wicked problems in health and was held February 16-26, 2015 in Denver CO – at INDUSTRY a beautifully designed 100,000 square foot co-working space. Since then, we’ve hosted another five programs. The results: 10 new companies have been created and more are on the way!
2001
Saligent, Inc.
Board Member
2001
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