Jeff Bonforte Email & Phone Number

California, United States

OWOW.ai helps people to use genAI to break the internet...one selfie at a time.

San Francisco, California, US

Catapult Capital is a boutique private equity firm. We purchased Grindr in June 2020, operated the business for more than 2 years (me as CEO) and prepped the company to go public in Q4 2022 at over $2B. I help other investments such as JibJab. We specialize in consumer-facing tech deals, where our operational. product and management expertise are a key.

My family office investment company. Brown Dog investments include over 100 angel, venture and private equity investments including X.AI, Space X, Grindr, Front App, Liquid Death, and Dollar Shave Club.

Los Angeles, California, US

Following our acquisition of Grindr in June 2020, I became the storied company's CEO. With my partners at Catapult Capital (and our partnership with San Vicente Capital), we worked to rebuild the team and virtually every system and process within the company from finance to support, product to privacy. We grew both revenue and EBITDA by over 80%. We raised.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Global responsibility for Mail, Messenger, Groups, Flickr, the data team and platform as well as the research team. I ran Search and Ad Products for a period of time, as well. I was executive sponsor for Women in Tech and neuro-diversity ERGs. I was executive lead for our Sunnyvale, Champaign and Israel offices. Played key role in Verizon messaging.

Social Search includes Y! Answers and Delicious. My role was to uncover ways to leverage social data to improve web search relevance and improve product personalization.

Ran Messenger, Voice and Chat for Yahoo!

Starbox develops retail technology that allows customers to rate movies, books, wine, games and music right on the shelf. I handle all the product development, fundraising, marketing, and business development for the company.

Report to CEO and Founder, Michael Robertson. Execute company strategy. Grow business. Close bus dev deals. Head marketing. And take out the trash (it is a startup, after all). Gizmo5 was acquired by Google and is now a part of Google Voice.

Headed marketing and bus dev. Focused bus dev to rev deals. Focused marketing on smaller niche markets (rather than general consumer focus). Bundled product with higher margin software (increased margins 3x). Relaunced brand. Began international push (South America). Built and executed channels and distribution strategy.

i-drive is listed as idrive sometimes on Linkedin. Note: the domain and company name are no longer associated with the company I started. The trademark assets were acquired by a company in San Diego that now uses the brand.

Conceived of idea. Wrote business plan. Built founding team. Grew company from 1 to 115 employees, 0 to 8mm+ customers, signed 40+ universities. Raised $40mm ($30mm equity, $10mm debt). 400 TV, radio and print stories. Fortune "Top 3" technology. C|Net "Top 5 Web Services", Neilsen "Top 10" college site. Sold technology to EMC.