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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Hyperlocal private credit for multi-location neighborhood businesses.Homegrown helps the best neighborhood businesses open up more locations by providing a single source of non-dilutive expansion capital without personal guarantees. This means: we don't take ownership, and you don't have to put your home / savings up as collateral to get expansion capital. We have the benefits of strategic growth equity without many of the downsides. It works by allowing owners to trade a small percentage of future revenue in exchange for large amounts of growth capital now. We're growth capital with heart -- not your typical, detached financial services provider that has little-to-no idea what it's like to actually open, run, and scale a business. When’s the last time your funding partner came to you?And the capital we provide is mostly from local (accredited) investors who not only frequent the businesses we back, but want to help these businesses grow without giving up ownership. Learn more @ www.joinhomegrown.com. Backed by Overline and Neighborhood Studios

Upperline Capital helps small businesses access working capital from a variety of non-bank funding sources. Our sweet spot is assisting small businesses doing $200,000 to $2,000,000 in annual gross sales. Our typical funding amount is $25,000 to $250,000. In addition to providing traditional loans and lines of credit, we can facilitate revenue advances whereby your business is provided with cash now and the advance is paid back over time with the payment amount and term based on your ongoing revenues.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Brash Coffee Roasters is the leading specialty coffee roaster and retailer in Atlanta. We currently have 3 retail locations with a 4th one on the way on the Beltline. Our beans are sold in Whole Foods in the Atlanta market.

Atlanta , Ga, Us

Co-founder/Investor. Helped Grow and oversaw the business from January 2013 to its ultimate acquisition in summer 2020 by Republic Services. Started with 2 old garbage trucks and 20 dumpsters, grew to 18 trucks, 1000's of business. customers and over 25 employees. Raintree Waste is a growing commercial waste hauling and recycling business with a geographical focus inside Metro Atlanta. Raintree provides the following services to business customers:1. Providing businesses and industrial sites/factories with scheduled waste hauling services via front-load dumpsters (2 yd, 4 yd, 6 yd, and 8 yd) or various sized compactors. 2. Providing businesses with recycling solutions. We've provide cardboard and single-stream recycling open tops and compactors and haul the recycled products to various recycling facilities (depending on the nature of the recyclables). We can provide the necessary reporting back to the customer to ensure LEED credits, etc. 3. Providing construction companies and contractors with roll-off services. We can haul dirt, construction debris and trash in 15-yd, 20-yd, 30-yd or 40-yd roll-off containers. Whenever possible, we will seek to recycle construction debris. In a nutshell, we are an alternative to the behemoth waste cos with a commitment to service and typically more reasonable pricing.

Investor in and serve on board of directors of ShopVisible. ShopVisible is a comprehensive ecommerce platform that powers the many different selling scenarios for the omnichannel B2C world as well as the complex transactions required in the rapidly growing B2B ecommerce space.ShopVisible Acquired Jan 2015 by Epicor--http://www.shopvisible.com/epicor-announcement/

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

SocialVest connects people, retailers, nonprofits and turns everyday purchases into big change.SocialVest's cause-fundraising platform connects consumers with with over 600 retailers and 1.5 million registered non-profit organizations in the U.S. Users earn money for their favorite charities simply by shopping at any of the online or offline partners. Affiliate referral and rebate fees from purchases funnel back into the user's "Giving Account" where they can then decide when and how much they want to do donate to their favorite causes.SocialVest’s mission is to create extraordinary change through everyday shopping— the fundamental principle is that small change adds up in a big way.SocialVest is part of the growing revolution that reinvents traditional business in a way that is cause-conscious and sustainable. Whether it’s the economic downturn, a natural disaster or an illness, Americans are touched by cause-related issues everyday and most are interested in being part of a positive change. SocialVest offers an easy way to make a positive impact by empowering consumers and enabling them to give to the causes they care about most. For non-profit organizations, SocialVest provides a new source of vital funding for organizations struggling to meet demand in the current recession.

Shotput is technology startup accelerator fund that focuses on capital-light web services companies and assists in the conception phase.During the summer of 2009, we invested in our first "class" of 8 early stage companies.

Dataclip constantly crawls and indexes millions of websites and DNS records to determine the technologies and web tools that are being used by companies on their sites. Using the information that we collect, we sell our research to sales and marketing teams at technology companies, product managers, industry analysts and hedge fund managers. Dataclip clients are typically interested in marketing to their competitor's customers or gaining competitive intelligence.

RingBranch provides a hosted PBX and auto-attendant solution to individuals. The RingBranch service helps certain wireless subscribers lower their mobile phone bill and also helps insure against loss or theft of your mobile phone.

SearchIgnite, through our on-demand software solution, enables large companies to more effectively manage their complex paid search campaigns across multiple search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOLSearch, etc) from a centralized location. Typically, our solution is geared towardscompanies that are managing thousands of keyword phrases in multiple campaigns and need help with automated bid management and bid strategy, tracking/reporting, and keywordmanagement. My role within the company is to develop strategic partnerships, sales channel partners, and to work on key sales' pursuits. In addition to this role within SearchIgnite, I recently started a new division within SearchIgnite called AdConsole Advisor. Our focus at AdConsole Advisor is on helping small and medium sized businesses create, manage, and track their paid search campaigns on the major search engines.

With 2 other individuals, I started and self-funded HyperMart, a leading free web hosting provider for small businesses. The company was acquired by Seattle-based Go2Net in 1998.

New York, Ny, Us