Travis Connors

Co-Founder and General Partner at Building Ventures

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 6 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2017
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Board Member
Sep 2017
Newmetrix significantly reduces jobsite risk and overall project cost by combining the best of human and artificial intelligence. Our construction-trained AI delivers unbiased insights, predicts where to focus your attention, and prescribes specific actions to take. Leverage the data you already collect to uncover risk signals, reduce incident rates, and help you present a business case to negotiate preferential insurance rates. At Newmetrix, we start by understanding your company, its safety culture, and your existing processes to make sure we have a clear picture of the problems you are trying to solve. We work together to outline a business case with prioritized objectives and projected ROI, to see which products are a fit for your company. We offer the following products: Safety Observations, Safety Monitoring and Predictive Analytics. Getting started is easy with pre-built integrations to Autodesk BIM360, Procore, Oracle Aconex, StructionSite, Egnyte, Box, and other data sources. See it in action at www.newmetrix.com.
Board Member
Nov 2008
Applause is the global leader in managed software testing services and digital quality. Through AI, automation and the world’s largest independent testing community, we help leading enterprises validate every aspect of their apps and other digital experiences. Our fully managed approach makes it easy for organizations to test under real-world conditions, across devices, locations and use cases — at the speed and scale required in the age of AI. Applause alleviates pressure on internal teams by helping expand testing coverage, keep pace with modern release cycles, and deliver exceptional quality to their users around the world. With deep expertise in payment testing, accessibility, UX and AI evaluation, Applause is a trusted partner to the world’s most innovative brands.
Board Member
May 2008
ownerIQ is the @InmarInc Data and Media Plaform focused on leading the data market’s evolution towards transparency, relevancy and choice. ownerIQ brings the most valuable consumer data to market– explicit shopping and purchasing data from retailers and brands– to power a new data economy: The Second-Party Data marketplace. Second-party data is sourced transparently from the marketing partners a brand is already working with, or brands that share data with non-competitive brands in exchange for compensation. This new market provides better quality data inputs to power all marketing tactics, and enabling fundamentally new marketing tactics, such as enabling a brand’s retail partners to leverage the brand’s data to support sell-through. Voted Best Data Management Platform by Digiday, ownerIQ directly ingests data on consumer engagement with a brand’s website, e-commerce transactions, off-line transactions and CRM data and enables that data to be shared with marketing partners within platform according to the brand’s preferences regarding security and usage. Over 1,500 partners are active in ownerIQ’s second-party platform and 700 of these partners share their data with other brands. Additionally, over a thousand of these partners are buyers of second-party data using it to activate media and drive marketing outcomes. In 2017 ownerIQ was named to the the Inc. 5000, received Digiday’s Signal Award for Best Data Management Platform and was recognized by The Boston Business Journal as one of the 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies. ownerIQ was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA and has offices in NYC, Chicago and Seattle.
Board Member
Aug 2005
A leading provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps – rapidly, securely and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo’s platform to drive their mobility initiatives. To learn more, visit www.verivo.com.
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2018
Co-Founder and General Partner
Sep 2018
Championing disruptive ideas for a better built world. Building Ventures offers the perfect mix of capital, mentorship and industry connections. As built environment pioneers, our mission is to provide access to funding, rich knowledge and decades of experience, to entrepreneurs, partners and disruptive thinkers. Together, we will build a better world.
2017
Board Member
Sep 2017
Newmetrix significantly reduces jobsite risk and overall project cost by combining the best of human and artificial intelligence. Our construction-trained AI delivers unbiased insights, predicts where to focus your attention, and prescribes specific actions to take. Leverage the data you already collect to uncover risk signals, reduce incident rates, and help you present a business case to negotiate preferential insurance rates. At Newmetrix, we start by understanding your company, its safety culture, and your existing processes to make sure we have a clear picture of the problems you are trying to solve. We work together to outline a business case with prioritized objectives and projected ROI, to see which products are a fit for your company. We offer the following products: Safety Observations, Safety Monitoring and Predictive Analytics. Getting started is easy with pre-built integrations to Autodesk BIM360, Procore, Oracle Aconex, StructionSite, Egnyte, Box, and other data sources. See it in action at www.newmetrix.com.
2016
Partner
Dec 2016
Borealis Ventures partners with exceptional entrepreneurs working to improve healthcare.
2010
Currensee
Board Member
Feb 2010
2008
Board Member
Nov 2008
Applause is the global leader in managed software testing services and digital quality. Through AI, automation and the world’s largest independent testing community, we help leading enterprises validate every aspect of their apps and other digital experiences. Our fully managed approach makes it easy for organizations to test under real-world conditions, across devices, locations and use cases — at the speed and scale required in the age of AI. Applause alleviates pressure on internal teams by helping expand testing coverage, keep pace with modern release cycles, and deliver exceptional quality to their users around the world. With deep expertise in payment testing, accessibility, UX and AI evaluation, Applause is a trusted partner to the world’s most innovative brands.
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