SG

Sean Gates

Startup CTO, Investor, Mentor, Advisor, VC Scout

Greater Chattanooga

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2021

  • Scout

    2021

    Meet Sweater — the first venture fund YOU can invest into. Until now, venture capital has been an asset class exclusively available to a select few. Sweater is transforming that. Sweater's mobile-first experience allows you direct access to the world's most exclusive asset class—Venture Capital. Sweater's mission is to empower everyone to become investors in the next generation of venture-backed startups.

2020

  • Advisor

    2020

    Helping Datateer through advising and business development. We help businesses unlock growth from the data they already possess. Ask me how!

2023 - 2024

  • CTO

    2023 - 2024

  • VP of Engineering

    2023 - 2023

2020 - 2023

  • Senior Software Engineering Manager, Engagement

    2020 - 2023

  • Principal Engineer, Commercial Growth

    2020 - 2020

2014 - 2020

  • Staff Software Engineer

    2014 - 2020

    Seller Hub; Core Components Co-lead; Browser Policy Team; Open Source Core Team; Front End Conference Organizer; Slack Org Admin

2015 - 2018

  • Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer

    2015 - 2018

2011 - 2015

  • Co-Founder

    2011 - 2015

2014 - 2014

  • Manager, Front End Software Lead

    2014 - 2014

    Managed a team of highly-skilled front-end developers to create desktop and mobile (mWeb and native) applications for our core business and consumers.

2012 - 2014

  • Presentation Engineer

    2012 - 2014

    Front-end development of the consumer selling tools on eBay.com.

  • Freelancer

    2007 - 2013