Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$500,000.00Target Investment:
$175,000.00
Skills
Education
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Investments
Pulzaid
Total Funding: $1M
UptimeHealth
Total Funding: $5.6M
BizzTM
Total Funding: $4M
Spare8
Total Funding: $800K
EmailAnalytics
Total Funding:
LootLocker
Total Funding: $2.3M
Hyphen SCS
Total Funding: $1M
One Body
Total Funding:
Champions Round
Total Funding: $11M
Tangibly
Total Funding: $9.7M
Work Experience
2020
Managing Partner
2020
Pre-Seed venture fund investing in technology companies that reduce friction at scale.
Co-Founder
2016
My brother and I started a non-profit to enable e-commerce companies to seamlessly add reforestation as a product to their offerings.
2006
Founder
2006
The first angel group in the US to focus exclusively on clean tech and sustainability. Currently very active.
Founder and Manager
1996
Investment holding company. Occasional Mid market office and residential developer. Holding company for private equity and angel investments. Over 200 early-stage start-up investments and over a dozen LP interests in top tier Venture Funds.
2017 - 2020
Chief Executive Officer
2017 - 2020
Raised two rounds of financing, grew revenue from zero to >$6m/year in two years.
2000 - 2015
Board of Directors
2000 - 2015
Leading messaging security company protecting over 2 billion subscribers around the world. Lead the analysis of anti-spam market for Ignition Partners leading to the investment in Cloudmark.
2009 - 2013
Chief Executive Officer
2009 - 2013
Leading technology provider of Group Buying and social commerce infrastructure. The only patent protected platform. Over 150 deployments including NBC, Univision, Fox, Hearst, Microsoft. Negotiated strategic partnerships with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and others. Sold to nCrowd in April 2013
2008 - 2013
CEO and Founder
2008 - 2013
Local market place software solutions including kashless.org better classifieds and tippr.com white label group commerce. Company pivoted to focus on Tippr. Tippr sold to nCrowd April 2013. Kashless, Inc. soon after the sale.
2002 - 2010
Venture Partner
2002 - 2010
Generation of deal flow, working with entrepreneurs to vet business ideas, doing investments, sitting on the board to help grow the company.
2005 - 2008
Chairman and CEO
2005 - 2008
Tried saving the world by creating renewable fuels that reduce our dependence on petroleum. Initially invested in the company, then joined as CEO as it became clear the company really was going to transform the economics of biodiesel and oil was going to go crazy. Raised over $250M in financing including $112M in project financing and working capital. Built a 5 M gallon proof of concept refinery, then a 100M production scale. Built pipeline of three more projects (China, Argentina, Hawaii), but financial markets closed in 2008. Company currently profitable and growing.