
My Portfolio of Cool Companies
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."
— Charles Darwin

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BOSS STARTUP SCIENCE
BOSS Startup Science provides education and products grounded in BOSS methods to give start-ups a better opportunity to succeed.
Since 2002 Xcential is on a mission to drive modernization, efficiency and transparency in how governments make laws, policies and regulations. At the core of these innovations is Xcential’s LegisPro, a powerful, state-of-the art, web-enabled software platform for legislative and regulatory drafting.

Delvify’s natively built SMART suite of visual AI solutions deliver better and more personalised customer experiences for eCommerce. The SMART suite uses state-of-the-art AI computer vision and natural language processing configured to deliver recommendations to users. The SMART suite set drives increased customer satisfaction, better cross-selling and up-selling and higher overall customer retention.

Biosolutions transforms and disrupts the global wastewater and water treatment industry through innovative technology that delivers clean water to a growing world population resulting in economic and environmental efficiency gains.

Over 70% of transit agencies in North America are still dependent on cash and paper-based fare products. Every public transit agency understands the benefits of electronic fare collection: replacing cash and paper with smart cards and mobile apps moves fare product sales from the ticket window to the Internet, increasing passenger convenience and giving agencies actionable data. But historically their high price tags, complexity and multi-year schedules meant that only the largest agencies could afford these systems. The World’s Most Advanced Electronic Fare Collection System by Delerrok is available to all agencies regardless of size or budget.
Founded in 2016 and currently located in Prosper, Texas, Amarki is a Software as a Service (SaaS) technology company that provides a marketing automation and workflow platform for the real estate industry. Amarki was accepted as a member of the National Association for Realtor’s REACH technology accelerator class of 2019 and has experienced rapid growth and promotion as a result of this endorsement. The Amarki real estate marketing automation platform combines dozens of previously independent systems alongside industry best practices to reduce the time that real estate professionals spend on property marketing.

Equity acquired by Blue Square Group a UK based retail marketing, digital engagement and winner of four prestigious awards in 2021. Intelligent Interfaces uses machine learning to fuel the ultimate retail customer support platform. Their AI technology asks customers questions, listens to their needs, and ultimately provides guidance on the perfect product for them, across multiple industries. Intelligent Interfaces technology is non intrusive, it only helps customers that are seeking help. With a 90% successful customer journey rate, Intelligent Interfaces knows the right questions, and the right answers, to increase not only customer satisfaction, but revenue as well. Customers are provided with their exact product need, relieving stress and uncertainty, leading to the higher likelihood of a sale.
Pepperjam is a performance marketing company offering brands a true all-in-one wholistic approach to “the new affiliate”. Formed out of a carve-out from Ebay Enterprise Marketing Solutions transaction and enhanced by the acquisition of AffiliateTraction, AdAssured and NDA, the business went through a transition to become one of the 3 largest networks in the world. The SaaS offering leverages unique data and preferences to acquire and optimize high-quality partners while providing data tracking with custom reporting dashboards and integrations for customized commission strategies that align with attribution models and incorporate affiliate into overall cross channel efforts. This is all accomplished while providing brand and traffic protection to minimize revenue loss and protect investments across search, social, domain, code, and content. Pepperjam was acquired by Partnerize in 2020.
AdAssured was a SaaS business that was founded out of AffiliateTraction’s need to offer its customers a wholistic multi-channel compliance solution. There was no such service available at the time, only fragmented technology stacks were available. The Business offered a single point platform for search, domain, content and coupon compliance. After two GTM strategies that settled on an aggregator approach offering its technology to agencies and networks to enhance the quality of their traffic delivered by affiliates to brands. The business was acquired by the newly formed Pepperjam in 2016 following the acquisition of AffiliateTraction and merged into the businesses' overall product stack.
Since 2002 Xcential is on a mission to drive modernization, efficiency and transparency in how governments make laws, policies and regulations. At the core of these innovations is Xcential’s LegisPro, a powerful, state-of-the art, web-enabled software platform for legislative and regulatory drafting.
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Affiliate announcement - Acquired by IBG 2006
In 2000, the affiliate industry was a highly fragmented space and at the time program directories were a requirement of a strong affiliate program GTM to get in front of the affiliates in tandem with the affiliate networks. Established in 2000, AffiliateAnnouncement was proven to be the webs most comprehensive full service affiliate directory submission company. The business was a technology enabled services offering. It was first the rollup of 10 affiliate directories and finally a technology to automate the process completely along with a SaaS offering that finally completed the business. The business was sold to a publicly traded business out of the UK in 2006.

EMagazines - Acquired 2004
A retail direct to consumer website offering virtually every Magazine available, EMagazines was at the time a new concept in an emerging market. The business offered consumers and offline customers a subscription to groups of Magazines of their choice. The business was acquired in 2004 by a private party.
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Alaya Labs manufactured and included an online retail business selling S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAMe) which is a compound found naturally in the body. SAMe helps produce and regulate hormones and maintain cell membranes. People generally use SAMe to treat osteoarthritis, liver disease and depression. However, SAMe can also interact with antidepressant medications. The business used a GTM focused on osteoarthritis, liver disease and depression content and both online and offline resellers. The business was acquired by a private party in 2003.

The business was founded by Jay Stolpestad as a solution to the low quality, battery time, and brightness of bicycle headlamps. The product, manufactured out of china, presented the market with the brightest, longest lasting battery with the smallest and lightest footprint in the industry. The business became among the most used headlamp in law enforcement and grew to over 250,000 unit sales monthly. The GTM was a content marketing strategy to specific industry thought leaders, combined with a strong “insider” feedback loop. Acquired in 2001 by the manufacture in China, the business now operates under the name MagicShine.

AllTravelInsurance.com offered the first online travel insurance comparison website with the ability to purchase policies online in realtime. The business included not only the resale of current insurance offerings but its own policies the business had underwritten specifically for AllTravelInsurance using said data. AllTravelInsurance.com was ahead of its time using stored “data” on popular policy specifics and restrictions which developed extremely profitable policies for the underwriting carrier and the right coverage for the insured. The business was acquired by the insurance carrier in 2001.
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AllPassportsANDVisas.com, an additional spin out to the travel insurance business, was built with an optimization of the travel insurance customer base and an integrated partnership with affiliate marketing. The technology we built and the services that were provided by an offline Passports & travel visa service business was revolutionary for the time. The business offered the fastest turnaround time and the customers did not even need to leave home, a huge competitive advantage. The business was acquired in 2001 by the service partner and became the backbone of their new online service offering.

allcurrencyexchange - Acquired 2001
Spinning out of the travel insurance business, AllCurrencyExchange utilized and optimized travel insurance customers. An international partnership with a Foreign Exchange business in the UK provided the technology and services to offer a range of local currency prior to a travelers trip at better rates than what would be available in airports or banks. The business utilized affiliate marketing programs built in the travel insurance business and partnerships with cruise lines and transportation services like Super Shuttle. The business was acquired in 2001 by Advanced Data Systems in 2001.
Vision Environmental Solutions was founded based on a product designed by Dr Howard Warren, the creator of Applied BioTechnology. The company focused on the remediation of hydrocarbon in municipalities and commercial food service businesses. The product is a highly concentrated microbial ecosystem containing specialized natural microorganisms selected for maximum efficiency in the biodegradation of organic contaminants in industrial and municipal wastewater, supplied as a dry fine granule, packaged in water-soluble bags. The business was merged into a new entity and then carved out to be acquired by Epicore BioNetworks in 1997, which was then acquired by Neovia Group.

In 1994 American Federal Lending, a direct lender to the real-states industry, provided lending to real-estate agents, and borrowers backed by real-estate. The business was founded with the concept of a more customized approach and GTM focused on aggregators of borrowers. I was bought out in 1994, however the other co-founders stayed in to continue the companies journey.