Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$1,500,000.00Target Investment:
$600,000.00
Skills
Education
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Work Experience
2018
Founder, investor, advisor
2018
Portfolio companies include Vestorly (co-founder/CEO, acq by FMG), Robinhood (2013 seed), Fonzi AI, UpContent, Yogi, Wealthfeed, Kumospace, Vested, AngelList, Unstoppable Domains, Major League Pickleball, others. Advisor to multiple VC/PE funds, growth stage companies, public companies and startups.
2023
Member, Board of Directors
2023
2021
Investor
2021
Ranchers Global is a premier paddle and racquet sport conglomerate, owning the Texas Ranchers Major League Pickleball (MLP) team and strategic equity stakes in key pickleball assets, including MLP, Pickleball TV, and DUPR.
2018
Venture Partner
2018
2019
Member, Board of Directors
2019
2019
Member, Board of Directors
2019
2020 - 2021
Investor, interim CEO
2020 - 2021
A fun project with friends, Truthify was an Emotion AI app. We built the only real-time, client-side mobile processing of Emotion AI for brands to see how audiences feel about any content on their phone, and a lead gen component that captured authenticated people and intent. --Started as an angel investor --Came in as CEO to raise another 500k and run partnerships --Secured a patent on dynamic calls-to-action based on real-time emotional responses to mobile content
2012 - 2018
Co-founder, CEO (acquired by FMG)
2012 - 2018
Vestorly was acquired by FMG in 2022. Strategic Advisor during 2020-2022 to assist in corporate development. Vestorly is an AI content marketing platform leveraging data science to curate and deliver content on behalf of marketers. As co-founder and CEO, I raised $11.2 million in venture capital, built the engineering and sales teams, won customers and partners like MetLife, BNY Mellon, Northern Trust, TD Ameritrade, Dow Jones, and Hootsuite, achieved 752% three-year revenue growth and led the company to the Inc. 5000 before exiting.
2014 - 2015
Graduate
2014 - 2015
Vestorly was incubated in the first cohort of Grand Central Tech, NYC's most selective tech startup accelerator.
2010 - 2012
Co-founder, CEO
2010 - 2012
AdvisorLeap was a digital marketing agency and the precursor to Vestorly