The Wharton School

Claremont McKenna College

Oak Hall School

Managing Partner at Kosch Capital

Austin, Texas, United States

Provide funding and liquidity solutions to growth oriented middle-market companies and early stage ventures.  Experienced in energy, communications, media, software, hardware, healthcare, green tech, fin tech, and real estate.  Brokers and finders are welcome.

Kosch Capital

Managing Partner

Shipshape makes smart homes intelligent. We are on a mission to network together all of the critical systems in your home to provide a total home health analysis. Over time, we will partner with homeowners to connect, maintain, repair, and replace the critical systems that they rely on for their homes.

Shipshape

Investor and Advisor

data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the "data people"—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use. data.world is an Austin-based Certified B Corporation and home to the world’s largest collaborative open data community and catalog, including COVID-19 public datasets.

data.world

Investor

Havenly is a convenient, personal and affordable way to redecorate your home room by room. Collaborate with our professional interior designers on our online platform. This is interior design for real people. Get started today: <a href="http://www.havenly.com.A">www.havenly.com.A</a> Denver based start-up, Havenly was founded by sisters Lee Mayer and Emily Motayed.

Havenly

Fast. Flexible. Staffing Reinvented. Wonolo provides a B2B marketplace that allows businesses to find vetted talent immediately. Wonolo removes the friction for companies to find talent for on-demand hourly or daily job needs, while creating freedom through flexibility for job seekers.

Wonolo

Buildworks specializes in luxury residential construction and remodeling in Austin, Texas. From design and planning to interior and exterior final touches, we strive for a standard of customer service and quality craftsmanship seldom matched in the industry. Whether you dream of a new kitchen, an addition to your house or a new custom home, Buildworks will build your dream.

Buildworks LLC

Cheddar Up is the simplest way to collect and track online payments from a group. Its wildly simple user interface makes collecting online payments accessible to anyone. It allows individuals, schools and organizations (anyone!) to create custom online payment pages in a matter of seconds for almost anything, providing an alternative to inefficient cash and check payments and paper forms. Cheddar Up features robust online payer tracking, automatic reminders, no fees for the collector, and the ability for people to pay in as few as three clicks. Whether it’s a group gift or trip, event, school fundraiser or membership dues…Cheddar Up makes group payments quick and easy.

Cheddar Up

The Mighty is a digital health community created to empower and connect people facing health challenges and disabilities.  We have over 2.5 million registered users and are adding a new one every 20 seconds.  Our stories and videos are viewed and shared more than 90 million times a month.

The Mighty

Rachio is a technology startup out of Denver, Colorado that makes it easy and affordable for homeowners to have beautiful, sustainable landscapes. Iro, Rachio’s first product, is a smart sprinkler controller that is powered by Rachio’s intelligent cloud-based software and is controlled through a web-based dashboard and an intuitive Android or iPhone app. Iro replaces only the existing control box yet modernizes the entire irrigation system by providing homeowners with a product experience that empowers them to have better landscapes with less time, less water and less money so they can spend more time enjoying their yard.

Rachio, Inc.

OsteoCentric Technologies has developed a novel medical device technology platform called Unifi, designed to preserve bone integrity while instantly interlocking an implant to bone.  Unifi has been engineered specifically for bone by applying innovative and patented thread geometries unique to the OsteoCentric brands.

OsteoCentric Technologies

Hammerhead is an athletic technology company. Our first product, H1, showed bikers where to go, and can be found in 50 countries. Our second product, Karoo, is the finest connected cycling computer on earth. Our software enables exploration, performance analysis, training recommendations and social connection.

Hammerhead

Peer5 develops products that enable content providers to deliver content to their end users faster and more reliably, while lowering their bandwidth costs. We aspire to help content providers distribute their content in a significantly more efficient way and decentralize the web. Our products use emerging technologies, including HTML5 and WebRTC. They require no installation by end users and offer easy integration for content providers. With Peer5's technology, content can be distributed anytime, anywhere.

Peer5

Sickweather is the Doppler radar for sickness, forecasting & mapping symptoms of illness in real time using social media. Our patent-pending process distills posts from social media (Facebook & Twitter) to generate real-time weather maps of illnesses. With our mobile app, users can be alerted in real-time when they have entered a sick zone, an area where others have recently reported being sick. Sickweather users also report directly to us, like a Waze for sickness, building our proprietary database of reports. The iPhone app is available as a free download here: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sickweather/id741036885?mt=8Sickweather">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sickweather/id741036885?mt=8Sickweather</a> is also available as a preloaded widget on all Sprint Android phones via the default browser toolbar. Named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Brilliant Companies" and "Top 5 Sites Crowdsourcing For Your Health" by the George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services.

Sickweather LLC

The Pagedip™ platform is your new digital content environment. We enable your customer-centric business to engage your reader. Invite the reader to remain connected to your digital material longer, by dipping into rich media in an innovative way. Curiosity satisfied, via Binks® at your fingertips! With this technology, a reader will access embedded materials, without leaving the page or opening additional browser tabs. Analytics capture involvement you need to measure. The Pagedip™ platform will intuitively layer into a primary file, materials such as: images, audio/video clips, PDF files, 360° images, text, diagrams, maps, and more. Consolidate your static documents, into an elegant file your reader is not only compelled to discover, but will also enjoy reading from any computer or mobile device.

Pagedip Platforms (fka Beneath the Ink)

Blinkfire Analytics provides the BI insights professional sports teams need to monitor social media distribution and reach for their team and player roster as well as the entire league.  Blinkfire also connects teams with fans on all major social channels and optimizes merchandise and promotional campaigns.

Blinkfire Analytics, Inc.

SnowShoe is the authentication platform for the internet of things. SnowShoe makes simple, intuitive, cross-platform compatible technologies that allow developers to easy and quickly build apps that interact with the internet of things. Our first product, the SnowShoe Stamp, is a simple, innert block of conductive material (machined aluminum or 3-d printed plastic) that can prove a smartphone user is in a specific place, at a specific time, and interacting with a person or embedded system in a specific authorized manner. The stamp does this by interacting with a phone's capacitive sensor array, and has been used to authenticate smartphone transactions - ranging from "punchcard- style" loyalty applications for SMBs to wifi-actuated door locks for AirBNBs.

SnowShoe

Schoolzilla provides a hosted service that connects, cleans and visualizes all of a school’s data sources. A typical school uses dozens of data systems to track attendance, grades, behavior, and more. But the lack of good data integration, management & visualization tools is a huge obstacle for educators, especially those trying to help struggling and disadvantaged students. And the explosion of online learning programs has only made this problem worse by exponentially increasing the number of data sources. Once schools connect their data, they use dashboards designed by some of the most data savvy educators in the country, and create their own custom dashboards to focus on the questions they care most about. In addition to saving schools time and money, Schoolzilla changes the way educators think about data - instead of a burden, it becomes an indispensable tool for improving student outcomes.  Acquired by Renaissance Learning.

Schoolzilla

Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Techstars founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates three divisions: Techstars Startup Programs, Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Programs and Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships.

TechStars

Investor and Mentor

YourMechanic is a San Francisco based company disrupting the car repair market by creating a marketplace for consumers to book appointments with top mechanics, who will come to the consumer's location for inspection and repair.  Why can't car owners enjoy more convenience with house calls and lower prices with a warranty?  Now they can.

YourMechanic

Lemnos is the leading early-stage hardware venture fund, providing direct investment and intensive, embedded interaction for hardware entrepreneurs. We focus on engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and financial capital; turning great ideas into successful hardware companies. We draw from our expertise, experience, and global network to work with founders and solve hardware’s biggest challenges together.

Lemnos Labs Inc

Xyber Technologies has developed a revolutionary cooling technology for data centers that requires no power and has no moving parts, thereby cutting the average data center's power consumption up to 40%.

Xyber Technologies

WINNER: TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT NY 2015Liquidity Corporation (<a href="http://www.liquico.com">www.liquico.com</a>) makes the world's most powerful filter for creating healthy drinking water. No chemicals, no electricity, no pumping or pressure required. The company was started by a "Dream Team"​ of leading executives, scientists, and engineers. The Liquidity filter is like a 3D-printed nanofiber structure that traps harmful microbes as they pass through. The result: water that's bacteria free, hassle free, and additive free.

Liquidity Nanotech Corporation (US)

The SOMARK Labstamp System is a new approach to laboratory mouse identification. By applying automated tail tattoos to mice from pre-weanling to adult size, the Labstamp System creates permanent, easily readable IDs that remove the guesswork from mouse identification.

Somark Innovations

Space Racers is an original, animated TV series for preschoolers that provides young children with exposure to key aspects of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) curriculum. Produced in collaboration with NASA experts, the series follows a group of talented young spaceship cadets at the Stardust Bay Space Academy — speedy Eagle, strong Hawk, smart Robyn, brave Starling, and competitive Raven – as they soar through the Solar System, learning about the power of scientific investigation and observation, the wonders of space exploration, and the importance of working together as a team.The world of the Space Racers comes vividly to life in each of our 26 episodes through stunning computer-generated imagery (CGI) and actual images from NASA missions. Stories tap into children’s curiosity to discover and learn about the world around them. From illustrating basic scientific concepts to investigating asteroids to solving problems on Mars, the characters of Space Racers take their preschool audience on a fun-filled adventure of learning and collaboration.

Space Racers

Clear River Enviro is a Healthcare Support Services Business focused on cleaner, regulatory-compliant solutions to ensure pharmaceutical waste generated by the healthcare industry stays out of the environment and does not contribute to the current opioid epidemic sweeping the country.Our patented disruptive technology delivers significant economies of scale over existing, supply chain intensive methods by destroying opioid and RCRA pharmaceutical waste at the point of origin.  Point of origin opioid destruction also reduces diversion opportunities by orders of magnitude.

Clear River Enviro, Inc.

<a href="http://SafeHostel.com">SafeHostel.com</a> combines an easy-to-use online interface, a global guest database, and staff dedicated to help improve hostels' safety and consumer ratings. The goal is simply to provide hostels around the world with the tools needed to create a more positive environment for guests by helping to identify potential problems before they occur. With <a href="http://SafeHostel.com">SafeHostel.com</a>, hostel managers are empowered to protect their business, guests, and the global hostel community.

SafeHostel.com

Chairman and Co-Founder

Aquabilt is dedicated to bringing the benefits of aquatic exercise to people worldwide. For more than 10 years, the company has designed and manufactured hydrotherapy products for the physical rehabilitation community. Aquabilt has applied its knowledge to develop state-of-the-art aquatic exercise products for the consumer, commercial and professional markets.

Aquabilt

R&D company with proprietary technology for water heating and steam generation applications.

BTU Technologies

Co-Founder and Chairman

ERinfo is a software company dedicated to saving lives. ERinfo provides patented, anywhere, anytime patient recognition and emergency notification using facial recognition to match a field image of a patient with their medical profile. Real-time retrieval of critical pre-existing medical information and emergency contact notification for use by credentialed medical responders during emergencies is a game changer that improves medical outcomes and reduces costs.

ERinfo

Chief Strategy Officer

Notion is an all-in-one sensor for simplified home awareness. We remove the need to choose which devices are required to monitor the things you want. Our single sensor can detect doors and windows opening, water leaks, smoke alarms sounding, lights being left on, temperature of a room, gun safes or liquor cabinets being accessed, and even how full a propane tank is. Notion sensors can do everything a home security system can (and much more!) — all in a self-installed, cost-effective, easy to use device with a two year battery life and a footprint equal to a couple of poker chips stacked on top of one another.  Acquired by Comcast

Notion (getnotion.com)

Parkifi is solving the world’s parking challenges through data. A real-time smart parking data platform technology enables parking operators to gain valuable and actionable insights into their inventory while revolutionizing how they monetize it. Acquired by DISH Network Corporation.

ParkiFi

Polymorph is a white-label SaaS monetization platform for publishers to maximize revenue, reduce costs and deliver better ad experiences.  Acquired by WalMart.

Polymorph (Formerly AdsNative)

U Grok It makes RFID economical, attractive, and open for development. We bring the power of RFID to iOS and Android smart-devices, allowing organizations of all sizes to identify, locate, inventory and track items simply, easily and affordably. Moving the Internet of Things (IoT) forward.  Acquired by Turck.

U Grok It

Are You a Human transforms online annoyances, like CAPTCHA and pre-roll video, into unforgettable advertising. We completely eliminate fraud and waste in digital advertising. Brands know that the vast majority of people ignore their ads through traditional methods. We reach consumers when they are completely focused on one task, and brands have 100% share of voice. Our proprietary patented algorithm analyzes each online interaction to determine if its real and human. This means we know exactly when a real person is interacting with a brand, and only charge for valid human interactions. Acquired by Distil Networks.

Are You a Human

Orange Chef designs and manufactures hardware and software applications to answer some of the toughest questions around health and nutrition.  Acquired by Yummly.

Orange Chef (Acquired by Yummly)

Uvize is an education technology company that helps college-bound military veterans succeed. We build virtual veterans centers for colleges. A virtual veterans center is a powerful resource to help prepare inbound veteran students for academic success, connect with mentors, and provide academic guidance all the way until graduation.  Acquired by Sondermind.

Uvize, Inc

Genome Compiler is a synthetic biology venture, building a best-in-class CAD system and a synthetic DNA marketplace for the new and growing community of biological designers around the world. Our software platform will provide support for the complete development cycle of genetic engineering projects with an emphasis on assuring public safety. The platform will facilitate the design, construction, characterization, dissemination, and maintenance of new genetic devices and systems.  Acquired by Twist Biosciences.

Genome Compiler Corp.

Pathful is a TechStars company in Vancouver that improves online businesses by revealing customer behaviour insights by automating web analysis.  Looking at images, text and other page elements that website visitors are engaging, Pathful provides simple, actionable ways to increase conversion for online businesses. Acquired by Mobify.

Pathful

Mapkin is making navigation social by combining turn-by-turn navigation with a fun way to share directions and local knowledge with others. While GPS products have focused on providing optimal routing, the voice that guides users along the route has been stagnating. We are building a free GPS app that guides you like a friend who knows the way. To make GPS sound truly human, we're building our directions primarily from crowdsourced content. We're making it fun for people who want to show off their local knowledge by helping others navigate around their neighborhood. Our users can flag problems, vote on instructions, and even speak better instructions in the moment via an eyes free, gesture based UI.  Acquired by Mapquest.

Mapkin

VerbalizeIt delivers real-time phone and browser-based access to a global community of human translators to facilitate cross-language conversations. Our mission is to empower people with the ability to instantly connect with a human translator to make sure that language is never a barrier to communication. Acquired by Smartling.

VerbalizeIt

DreamIt Ventures is a startup accelerator which brings in promising early-stage companies for a 3-month program, providing them with seed funding, office space, dedicated mentors, attorneys, accountants and a speaker series. The teams work towards a prototype or early release over the course of the program and then pitch to investors at the Demo Day. In just 5 years, DreamIT has helped launch 127 companies who have gone on to raise over $100M in follow-on funding and currently have an aggregate enterprise value approaching $400M.

DreamIt Ventures

Advisor

Prompt.ly is the only mobile-first, scheduling, promotion and payment platform for solopreneurs and their clients. Acquired by Breezeworks.

Prompt.ly

OnTheGo Platforms is a software platform for smart glasses. The first piece of software shipping is called Ari (Augmented Reality Interface) and is the 'Siri' of gesture recognition for smart glasses.  Acquired By Atheer.

OnTheGo Platforms

Biomatrica is a San Diego-based biostability company that provides innovative technologies for stabilizing, processing, storing, shipping and assaying biological samples at room temperature. The core technology is designed for use in preserving complex biological samples and assays and is based on the principles of anhydrobiosis ("life without water"), a natural mechanism that allows multicellular organisms to survive extreme environments. Biomatrica's current products stabilize DNA and RNA with no sample degradation, thus labs can reduce their reliance on freezers and drastically reduce shipping costs. Biomatrica products are used in laboratories performing life science research, from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to academic research and forensics laboratories.  Acquired by Exact Sciences Corp.

Biomatrica

Routehappy is the product differentiation platform for air travel, providing airlines and distributors with Scores & Amenities for every flight worldwide and Routehappy Hub, a platform to manage their rich product attribute content in all of their distribution channels.  Acquired by ATPCO.

Routehappy

Greenworks Cabinetry is one of the few dedicated green cabinet manufacturers in the United States, offering a full range of beautiful and highly durable cabinets that will not only conserve forest resources, but also improve indoor air quality and reduce exposure to harmful chemicals like formaldehyde. Greenworks manufactures a variety of cabinetry options, such as European frameless and inset cabinetry, as well as a host of door styles, including Shaker, traditional, and unique designs.  Also available are green closet systems and vanities, as well as custom green millwork for a wide variety of projects, both large and small.  Greenworks is also a certified fabricator for Richlite, the leading manufacturer of recycled paper composite countertops for commercial and residential applications.

Greenworks Cabinetry

Third Screen Labs' mission is to provide best-in-class advisory services, which empower our clients to respond to the revolution in mobile computing. The “third screen” refers to where we look for news, information, entertainment, and communication. The first screen was the television, followed by the second screen of the personal computer. With the advent of powerful smartphones and other mobile computing devices, the third screen is rapidly transforming content distribution models and communication behavior. With a team that combines strategic, marketing, and technical acumen, TSL helps clients not only define their mobile strategy, but also design and develop applications to enable clients to take advantage of the latest technologies.

Third Screen Labs

Chairman and CEO

Alterna is positioned to meet the growing demand for green building materials and home products along the East Coast, Latin America and the Caribbean. The company is a proud member of the U.S. Green Building Council and is the first supplier headquartered in South Florida to focus exclusively on green building materials and home products by leveraging a world class distribution platform.  Alterna's customer base includes large residential and commercial developers, lodging companies, government agencies, and residential showrooms.

Alterna Corp.

Co-Founder

XWebServices, Inc. is an IT consultancy focused on Service Oriented Architecture solutions.  The company has assembled a diverse team of SOA Architects and Consultants focusing on Enterprise SOA planning and design, an offshore software development team based in Romania, and partnerships with several SOA focused software companies. XWebServices also provides <a href="http://SOAHub.com">SOAHub.com</a> as a web portal for the SOA community.

XWebServices, Inc.

Provided an operator-managed, high-speed, notification service delivering time-critical news, announcements and warnings to an unlimited number of recipients via the telephone.  Clients included municipalities, public school districts, private schools, churches, hospitals, condo associations, and state government agencies.  Business merged with OneCallNow.

Notification Technologies, LLC

Investor and Co-Founder

Provide strategic, financial and marketing counsel to high growth companies and private equity firms.

Highland Advisors

Managing Director

Established a premier retailer for art buyers, interior designers and artists.

ArtfulStyle

Founder and CEO

Provided strategic counsel to clients in telecommunications, information technology and media industries such as Sprint, Telstra, DirecTV, General Dynamics and Media Sourcery.

Montgomery & Co., LLC

Senior Associate

Managed this online entertainment company_____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART146ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____s strategic development and capitalization, leading to acquisition by Launch Media Inc. (later acquired by Yahoo!). Negotiated unique strategic alliance with Microsoft Corporation and co-marketing and content licenses with many public companies.

MUSICVIDEOS.COM

Vice President of Business Development

Assisted private equity firm specializing in market opportunities emerging from deregulation and resulting convergence of energy, utility and telecommunication industries.

Enertech Capital

Advised clients in electric utility industry on operations improvement, capital budget allocation and competitive strategies regarding deregulation and diversification.

Scott Kosch

Scott Kosch