Justin Ip

Founder & CEO

2015

Kick Health helps smart, capable professionals overcome the fears that hold them back from being the very best versions of themselves. Our personalized telemedicine service offers easy access to doctor consults and prescriptions for performance anxiety during interviewing, presenting and public speaking. Our prescriptions are the insider's edge to blocking the physical symptoms of nerves like racing heartbeat, shaky hands, or trembly voice. Kick partnered with leading experts from Stanford, Yale, and Harvard in psychiatry, medicine, and emotional fitness. https://www.gokick.com Learn more: National press links on images below:

Angel Investor

2011

EXITS Weave - What Quickbooks is for taxes, Weave is for small-business communications. IPO 11/2021 AllTrails - The best outdoor hiking apps and maps. Acq. 10/2018, $75M Kidpass - Book the best family activities, Acq. 8/21 by BEGiN Zuul - Commercial kitchens in the cloud. Acq. 9/21 by Kitchens United CURRENT Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company - Making medication for all diseases affordable 💊 Carta - Private stock market for startup liquidity 🌊 Atomic Alchemy - Modern nuclear reactor for manufacturing medical radioisotopes ☢️ CareRev - Solving the critical shortage of nurses 👩‍⚕️ AltoIRA - Self-directed IRAs for the inevitable shift into alternative assets 👩‍🎤 Orbit Fab - Gas stations for refueling space satellites 🛰️ Quaise Energy - Geothermal energy mmWave drilling from MIT ⚡ Impossible Mining - Rare Earth Mining the Sea Floor 💎 Colossal - Bringing the Wooly Mammoth back from extinction 🐘 Merit - Digital credentialing for the decentralized age 🎓 Mercury Bank - The first business bank worth using 💸 Panther - Payroll for a remote-first, global workforce 🌎 Resolve - Affirm's buy now, pay later for businesses 💰 Haus - Less sugary, more tasty alcoholic social aperitif 🍸 Notable Labs - Personalized, AI-driven cancer treatments 🧬 Boundary Layer - Hydrofoil cargo ships fast enough to replace air freight 🚢 Almanac - The knowledge web for your company 🧠 FarmTogether - Invest in farmland 🚜 Traverse - Finding the best wind and hydro sites 10x faster 🌬️ Two Front - B2B2C marketplace for Orthodontists 🦷 Droneseed - Planting forests with drones 🌲 Apozy - Defense against phishing 🎣 70 Million Jobs - Linkedin for ex-cons to help them reintegrate successfully 🏢 Studio Fitness - Social fitness app 🏃‍♀️ Seasons - Rent menswear to stay stylish, always 🕺 BlueCargo - Smarter container stacking for shipping ports 📦 Alula - Making cancer less lonely 😷 Cleargene - Replacing PCR tests 🦠 SecurityPal - Security reviews simplified 🛡️

Cofounder / CTO

2014 - 2014

Kerros was backed by some of the best seed investors in Silicon Valley and offered clinically validated, mobile-based programs proven to improve mental health. We ultimately failed, but we learned a lot throughout the process of spinning up quickly and spinning down (somewhat) gracefully.

Head of Product, Advisor & Investor

2011 - 2014

I ran the product and engineering teams at AllTrails - an AngelPad Batch #1 company. I was the first engineering hire, and launched our co-branded website in partnership with National Geographic in January 2012. I built a team of world-class engineers - the team consisted of 2 published authors of Android books, a homebrew core committer, and ex-Facebook / Google / Microsoft team members. AllTrails was acquired for $75M+ in September 2018, a 20x ROI for early investors. AllSnow, our winter-sports focused app, has been the #1 featured app in both the Apple iTunes and Google Play stores. AllTrails remains one of the ten "Essential Apps for Travel"​ in the iTunes store, alongside Kayak, Tripadvisor, AirBnB etc. I spent half of my time programming, and the other half on product, growth and recruiting tasks AllTrails is the leading network for summer and winter outdoor enthusiasts, built in partnership with National Geographic. Funded by AngelPad, 500Startups and other top tier investors. http://www.alltrails.com http://www.allsnow.com We built the the number 1 outdoors app on Android and iPhone (search for "hiking"), and also the number 1 snowsports app (AllSnow) Press: ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://alltrails.com/partners/national_geographic http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/17/alltrails-partners-with-national-geographic-launches-redesigned-co-branded-website/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/07/alltrails-retail-sales/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/13/alltrails-pockets-400k-from-500-startups-and-more/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/10/angelpad-demo-day/

Founding Engineer

2009 - 2011

First engineer at early stage social-search startup focused on experiential travel. http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/17/afar-launches-to-connect-like-minded-travelers-for-advice-and-tips/

Advisor

2010 - 2011

Bringing Steve Blank's vision of the Lean Startup boardroom meeting online... http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/leanlaunchpa/ http://morganlinton.com/when-the-boardroom-is-bits-keynote-by-steve-blank/ http://steveblank.com/2011/06/02/reinventing-the-board-meeting-%E2%80%93-part-2-of-2-virtual-valley-ventures/

Founder / CEO

2003 - 2009

Lead Developer / Contract Consultant

2009 - 2009

Lead development of a web-based volunteer tracking, email alerting and badge credentialing application for emergency staff. Pioneering application built with RESTful ASP.NET MVC, LINQ and JQuery on top of Sharp Architecture and Fluent NHibernate.

Lead Developer / Independent IT Contract Consultant

2004 - 2009

Led successful technical implementation of the $9 million CalSTRS Imaging Project, an enterprise-wide, mission-critical document imaging and workflow project comprising 40 million documents. System used by 400 employees on a daily basis.

Lead Developer / Independent IT Contract Consultant

2003 - 2004

Lead Consultant on team that implemented a successful FileNet document management and workflow system at CalPERS. Team eliminated $1 million in annual offsite physical storage costs through digitizing all incoming mail, streamlined business processes while increasing retirement application processing efficiency by 40%. Overall processing costs were reduced 30%. Implemented a thin-client, ASP.NET document management and workflow solution built on top of FileNet eProcess Workflow Engine, Image Services Server and Content Services Server. Oracle 9, web services and Windows Services were also leveraged. Project awarded FileNet’s Best Mission-Critical Application Solution Innovation Award in 2003.