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Seed Investor
Jul 2021
Mayday is an AI calendar assistant that helps you spend time in better ways.
Signup for early access at https://mayday.am
Seed Investor
Oct 2020
At Walnut, we’ve cracked the nut on insurance and digitally flipped the traditional insurance model. Were embedding insurance into the products and services that you love.
Advisor and Seed Investor
May 2019
Keylu is an online platform that helps you to capture and securely store everything that is important in your life. Whether you need some help in removing the chaos of managing your digital footprint (personal, legal, or financial documents), or want to ensure that your precious memories and moments are never lost. By creating a Keylu account, not only will you make your online life much easier, but you will make a huge difference to the lives of your loved ones, should anything happen to you.
At Keylu we care, weve been there!
Advisor and Seed Investor
2018
Portl is a network of content/advertising/commerce-enabled tablets in rideshare vehicles (Uber + Lyft) - tapping into the power of geo-location (and historic ride) data that the rideshare companies provide via API.
Our network of connected screens eliminates idle time by providing media and entertainment options to riders who are experiencing idle time.
A proprietary, easily installable hardware and software package delivers geo-located, contextual partnered content while collecting and measuring user behaviour.
Portl was most recently named “Notable Startup of the year” & “Canada’s most promising startup” at the NACO World Investment Summit.
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2024
Producer
Sep 2024
Many believe the collapse of our current systems is inevitable... how it ends is not. A better future is within our grasp.
"It is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women."
The question: Is capitalism, in its current form, a sustainable system?
Massive income inequality. Worker exploitation. Environmental degradation.
All these issues point to a clear answer: NO.
Radical technological advances + a growing sense of fairness and responsibility + human ingenuity = potential solutions.
The first step towards changing our system is to start imagining a new one.
Let’s explore them together.
2021
Founder + CEO
Nov 2021
We built vimi to solve one problem we all have.
👉🏼 Attention.
The world turns on Attention - it’s the hardest currency to earn and everyone is competing for it.
And weve been falling for the trap that email and social channels have set.
The secret is not just to be seen, but to be remembered.
We help you to be remembered.
Our mission is to helping you capture and retain attention by creating personalized, storytelling experiences that are unforgettable.
We help you use a channel with captive, earned attention from the people who really want to hear from you.
👉🏼 Your customers. Your employees. Your partners.
👉🏼 Videos. Images. Links. Text
👉🏼 Delivered with your product and gifts.
Thoughtful. Helpful. Meaningful.
The way people communicate with people they care about.
👉🏼 We keep things simple - youve got an untapped channel with captive attention; youve got content that no one else has - weve put them together to deliver a custom branded experience.
👉🏼 We make things easy - youre busy so you want "easy-to-use" or "done-for-you" - sure - why not both? You pick DIY or DFY, and well take care of the rest.
👉🏼 We make sales and marketing feel more fun again - your customers are drowning in boring AI drivel from everyone else - people do more business with people they know - show them why they should do more with you.
Some of our results:
- Increased response engagement to 80% in outbound campaigns.
- Generated 3x sales pipeline in <3months with product launch gift.
- 10xd recruiting referrals volume in 6 months for employee engagement program.
- 😎 Happier, more successful teams
If all of this sounds like what you’ve been looking for, then let’s start with a brief video call.
(DM me for a calendar link).
👉🏼Wed love to learn more about you and how we can help you.
👉🏼Wed love to share more about who we are and why people love working with us.
Seed Investor
Jul 2021
Mayday is an AI calendar assistant that helps you spend time in better ways.
Signup for early access at https://mayday.am
2020
Seed Investor
Oct 2020
At Walnut, we’ve cracked the nut on insurance and digitally flipped the traditional insurance model. Were embedding insurance into the products and services that you love.
2019
Advisor and Seed Investor
May 2019
Keylu is an online platform that helps you to capture and securely store everything that is important in your life. Whether you need some help in removing the chaos of managing your digital footprint (personal, legal, or financial documents), or want to ensure that your precious memories and moments are never lost. By creating a Keylu account, not only will you make your online life much easier, but you will make a huge difference to the lives of your loved ones, should anything happen to you.
At Keylu we care, weve been there!
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