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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
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Work Experience
2017
Founder and CEO
2017
Curious is a long-term holding company and permanent capital firm that buys and grows software companies with empathy. Our purpose is to uncover the potential of each company and help them reach it, particularly in times of uncertainty or distress. We're a team of seasoned operators with deep growth experience, built to keep brands alive for decades.
2021 - 2023
CEO
2021 - 2023
Stamped is a fast growing software provider of reviews and loyalty for ecommerce brands with over $20M in ARR, powering more than 50,000 customers. Stamped is a fully remote organization, with nearly 100 employees spread around the globe. Stamped's mission is to provide the tools and expertise to help DTC brands grow through genuine relationships with their customers.
2018 - 2023
CEO in Residence
2018 - 2023
Tiny acquires and operates wonderful internet businesses. Previously served as the CEO of Meteor and WeWorkRemotely, and later moved into a position as the CEO of Stamped, a Tiny portfolio company. Tiny is publicly listed as $TINY on the TSXV.
2015 - 2018
CMO (Acquired by Spectrum Equity)
2015 - 2018
A betaworks studio company, Bitly’s software platform helps the world's leading brands deliver and measure their efforts across all marketing channels. Processing more than 10B clicks each month across their network, Bitly is headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver, and a customer list that includes leading brands like IBM, eBay, Nike, GE, BuzzFeed, and thousands more.
2014 - 2015
Head of Growth
2014 - 2015
Betaworks is a company of builders. A tightly linked network of ideas, people, capital, products, and data brought together in imaginative ways to build out a more connected world. Betaworks is structured as a company – a single company that owns larger pieces of the things it has built and smaller pieces of the things it has invested in. Backed by $47.5M in funding, Betaworks has started and funded some of the web's most well-known brands. Products built within the Betaworks studio include Dots, Instapaper, Bitly, Chartbeat, and Giphy. Notable Betaworks investments include Tumblr, Kickstarter, AirBnB, Pinterest, and Medium.
2011 - 2014
Director of Business Development (Acquired by iContact)
2011 - 2014
Moz provides analytics software to track all of a website’s inbound marketing efforts—search, social media, and content marketing. Moz is used by over 25,000 customers, ranging from Fortune 50 companies to small businesses. Since 2011, the company has grown from ~$5M to ~$45M in revenue and has expanded the team from the twenties to the hundreds. Moz's investors include Ignition Partners and The Foundry Group.
2012 - 2013
Co-Founder (Acquired by Copper)
2012 - 2013
Stride was a simple alternative to the many complex CRM products that plague the small business sales process, and was a side project -- built during a free evenings and weekends. Used by thousands of customers around the globe, Stride has been called innovative, beautiful, and refreshingly simple by publications like TechCrunch and Geekwire. Stride was later acquired by Copper, a San Francisco-based CRM company.
2010 - 2011
Director of Growth (Acquired by Hootsuite)
2010 - 2011
Seesmic was an award-winning social media management platform with over 250,000 users across their web, desktop, and mobile applications. The company helped pioneer the social management space, allowing users to manage their brand across over 80 natively-integrated platforms like Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, and Youtube. Seesmic's investors included Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, AOL founder Steve Case, Atomico, and SoftBank Capital. In September of 2012, Seesmic was acquired by Hootsuite.
2006 - 2009
Director of Marketing
2006 - 2009
As a member of the founding team, Tatango became one of the leaders in SMS-based marketing, powering mobile marketing campaigns for thousands of customers. The company has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, CNN, and has had a small hand in advancing the mobile marketing industry to where it is today.