Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
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Work Experience
2015
Managing Director
2021
Manifold Group (formerly Digital Intent and Founder Equity) is a venture holding company combining a venture fund, incubation and acceleration studio, and enterprise advisory all under one roof. Manifold brings together the people, technology, processes, and capital to accelerate growth for companies at all stages. Our platform provides a flywheel for early stage value creation, combining the best of venture, studio incubation, and corporate advisory. - Ventures —> Investing in extraordinary founders at seed and early stage startups. - Studios —> Rapid acceleration and incubation for the next wave of great companies. - Advisory —> Asset-based consulting to engineer growth for enterprises.
Managing Director
2015 - 2021
Digital Intent is an advisory and product development firm, using our unique blend of corporate advisory, venture capital, start-up, and academic experience to help companies grow. DI can help you conceive innovative tech enabled products, combine them with winning business models, and reduce market adoption risk by employing a rigorous venture capital approach to find product market fit and scale. General management responsibilities with a focus on building the enterprise business model and leadership of the Dallas office.
2020
Strategic Advisor
2020
2016
Managing Director
2016
2013
Consultant
2013
2015 - 2021
Managing Director
2015 - 2021
Founder Equity makes investments in early stage digital businesses. Our model is based on value investing, very active participation in growing our portfolio companies and quick paths to liquidity. Founder Equity currently has 7 investments and anticipates 2-4 more in this current fund. Current investments; Social Qnect (SmartMom), Lotsa Helping Hands, Billow Engagement, LearnLeo, Fibroblast, Eat Purely and Roll Kall. www.founderequity.com
2013 - 2015
SVP, Strategy
2013 - 2015
EdgeTheory is a start-up focused on marketing automation and content generation for social media backed by Jim Barksdale (FedEx, McCaw Cellular/Cellular One, Netscape) that had built significant MRR (almost $90k+) and a marquee client list (Match.com, Mayo Clinic, Neiman Marcus), but was in need of structure and planning in operations, sales, and services to enter early stage rapid growth. As bookings tripled, staff size merely doubled by restructuring all aspects of the operations to support this growth.
2011 - 2014
Senior Vice President, Consulting Services
2011 - 2014
2008 - 2011
Vice President, Services
2008 - 2011
2006 - 2008
Principal Consultant
2006 - 2008
2003 - 2005
Director of New Media
2003 - 2005