William Pangas

A disciplined, self-starter and results driven executive skilled in corporate finance, investment management, project management, and business development.

πŸ“ Winter Park, Florida, United StatesπŸ”„ Updated September 2026πŸ’Ό 11 investmentsπŸ“… 15 years investingπŸ—“ Last invested Jan 2016
VC🌍 United States
11
Total investments
3
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2
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1
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15y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Observer
Jan 2016
Feathr (https://feathr.co) is the Nonprofit Marketing Platform purpose-built to help mission and membership organizations unlock more. With easy-to-use advertising, email, and digital engagement tools, Feathr enables you to identify, grow, and cultivate your audiences. With Feathr, you can create and execute highly targeted and personalized campaigns that increase engagement, drive conversions, and generate more revenue. By gathering and analyzing data from multiple sources, Feathr empowers you to create campaigns tailored to the specific interests and needs of each individual donor or member. The platform also offers tools and integrations to help you manage campaigns across multiple channels, including social media, email, and mobile. You can track and measure the performance of your campaigns in real-time – no tech required – allowing you to make data-driven decisions and optimize your marketing efforts. If you're a nonprofit looking to increase engagement, generate more revenue, and achieve your digital marketing goals, then Feathr is the solution for you. Schedule time with a Good Marketing Strategist today to see how you can take your marketing efforts to the next level with Feathr.
Investor
Mar 2015
Nearpod provides real-time insights into student understanding through interactive lessons, interactive videos, gamification & activities - all in a single platform. We know teachers are critical to students learning and to their social and emotional well-being. This is why our core belief is to empower teachers, not replace them. We believe teaching is the most important job in the world, and so, our team of former teachers, engineers, product and content developers do everything they can to build products driven by teacher feedback and honoring all student backgrounds and abilities. We are committed to creating products and company culture representative of our values around equity and inclusion. Nearpod is growing and we will continue to build diverse teams of passionate people located across the globe.
Investor
Jul 2014
Anuvia Plant Nutrients, headquartered in Winter Garden, Fla., is a company focused on an innovative and patented way of manufacturing an enhanced efficiency fertilizer (EEF) for the turf and agricultural industries. Anuvia addresses the three pillars of sustainability – social, environmental and economic – simultaneously by providing an avenue for organic materials to be used in a resource efficient and environmentally friendly manner that helps people, plants and the environment thrive.
Investor
2013
Zentila is a first-of-its-kind strategic sourcing solution for meetings and events. The award-winning platform enables organizations and third-party planners to easily source and capture meeting and event data – all in one place. Zentila’s user-friendly planning and administration tools add transparency to company meeting activities and reduces the time and costs associated with sourcing and contracting meeting venues. Its SaaS-based meetings management technology captures M&E spend for corporations, providing visibility to this hard-to-track category. For more information on this breakthrough solution, visit Zentila.com.
early stageHospitality
Board Observer
Nov 2012
Thrive Frozen Nutrition began a decade ago, with the idea of disrupting the healthcare, senior care, and sports nutrition industries with nutritionally enhanced, real foods that are not only healthy, but also enjoyable to eat. These industries were ripe for change as many dietary supplements have unsavory taste or texture and often include a host of artificial or less desirable ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, palm oil and fillers. Dietitians actively look for products to support their nutritional strategies, are palatable to those in their care and are not wasted due to not being consumed. We launched Thrive Ice Cream in 2011 with the brand promise "Real Ice Cream. Real Benefits."​ Because of its appeal, ice cream is a natural fit for delivering nutrition to patients, seniors, athletes, and children. Each 6-ounce cup ocontains 9 grams of protein, 24 vitamins and minerals, 3 grams of natural fiber, and 4 active probiotics, including GenedonBC30, to support digestive and immune health. Thrive Ice Cream is gluten-free, certified kosher, Real Dairy certified, and low in lactose. It can be used as a meal supplement, snack or dessert, and is an appropriate nutritional tool for addressing a number of medical conditions like unintended weight loss, dysphagia, IBS, Crohns and colitis, dementia, wound care, and more. It enhances quality of life - most people prefer a cup of ice cream to a liquid supplement! In 2018, we launched Thrive Gelato. Like Thrive Ice Cream, our gelato is also nutritionally enhanced, contains high quality ingredients and packaged for smaller appetites in 4-ounce single-serve cups. In blind taste tests, people preferred Thrive Gelatos delicious flavors and creamy texture to a leading competitor. Its also very affordable for health systems, senior living facilities, collegiate sports programs, and schools looking for healthier options of favorite foods. Thrive invites you to put our products to the spoon test! Contact us for samples.
Board Observer
Jul 2012
Welcome to JDCPhosphate, Inc. JDCPhosphate, Inc. is focused on applying advanced technology to the production of phosphate products for agriculture and industry in a sustainable and environmentally effective manner. JDC has assembled creative talent in science, business and engineering to commercialize the Improved Hard Process (IHP) as a manifestation of its vision. Our Vision We seek to create a future in which mankind is nourished by a greater abundance of usable phosphate resources worldwide and benefits from a cost-effective means of using them. Our Mission JDC will acquire the necessary technical, financial and business resources to deploy its beneficial IHP technology around the world, in so doing adding value to producers and users of phosphate products, JDC employees and shareholders and the environment.
Board Observer
Sep 2011
At Fracture, we believe that sharing stories with one another is an essential part of being human. We exist to help you celebrate these moments in your life. Transform your digital images into frameless artwork, printed directly on glass.
early stageManufacturing
Experience Β· 14 entries
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Investments (11)
Board (4)
2023
Vice President
Jan 2023
1858 specializes in Mergers & Acquisitions and Principal Investments. With a focus on the middle market, 1858 utilizes its vast network, internal resources and the latest technology, to attain successful transactions. 1858 is a team of diverse mergers and acquisition professionals with deep experience as operators, principal investors, sell side advisors and legal counsel. Unlike traditional investment banks, 1858 was formed with a community banking model in mind. 1858’s capitalization, partners and board come from, and are made up of local business leaders. While 1858 advises on deals outside the community (and even outside the state of FL), we believe Central Florida is a vastly underserved market, with some of the best companies in the country located here. While large investment banks opportunistically appear in this market, our experience is that they typically offer a sub-par transaction process and result.
2022
Principal
Aug 2022
We help B2B distributions largest enterprises use technology to solve big problems and unlock new opportunities. Applico Capital brings together strategic partners and entrepreneurs to accelerate growth and create value at tremendous scale. Through venture capital, we invest out of the B2B Distribution industrys first venture capital fund dedicated to investing in distribution tech. Through private equity, we are the technology operating partner to large B2B Distributors as they harness AI to lead their vertical.
2016
Board Observer
Jan 2016
Feathr (https://feathr.co) is the Nonprofit Marketing Platform purpose-built to help mission and membership organizations unlock more. With easy-to-use advertising, email, and digital engagement tools, Feathr enables you to identify, grow, and cultivate your audiences. With Feathr, you can create and execute highly targeted and personalized campaigns that increase engagement, drive conversions, and generate more revenue. By gathering and analyzing data from multiple sources, Feathr empowers you to create campaigns tailored to the specific interests and needs of each individual donor or member. The platform also offers tools and integrations to help you manage campaigns across multiple channels, including social media, email, and mobile. You can track and measure the performance of your campaigns in real-time – no tech required – allowing you to make data-driven decisions and optimize your marketing efforts. If you're a nonprofit looking to increase engagement, generate more revenue, and achieve your digital marketing goals, then Feathr is the solution for you. Schedule time with a Good Marketing Strategist today to see how you can take your marketing efforts to the next level with Feathr.
2015
Investor
Mar 2015
Nearpod provides real-time insights into student understanding through interactive lessons, interactive videos, gamification & activities - all in a single platform. We know teachers are critical to students learning and to their social and emotional well-being. This is why our core belief is to empower teachers, not replace them. We believe teaching is the most important job in the world, and so, our team of former teachers, engineers, product and content developers do everything they can to build products driven by teacher feedback and honoring all student backgrounds and abilities. We are committed to creating products and company culture representative of our values around equity and inclusion. Nearpod is growing and we will continue to build diverse teams of passionate people located across the globe.
2014
Anuvia Plant Nutrients Holdings
Investor
Jul 2014
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