Dan Jenkins Email & Phone Number

Laguna Beach, Ca, Us

Despite the pandemic, 2020's Competition set new records: 114 Teams...400 Participants...50 Fields of Study...150 Coaches/Judges...900 Grand Finale attendees...$100,000 Prize Pool!

Irvine, California, United States

Orange County, Ca & La Jolla, Ca

→ For early and seed stage startup companies that request funding from Praetorian, initiatives include performing end-to-end evaluation and due diligence for placement into one of the firm's venture portfolios, for execution of a syndicated SPV investment, or for making a business referral to investment partner venture capital firms, angel investors, and family offices. Investment Thesis targets companies spanning Seed to Series A and occasional Series-B investments ranging between $250K and $1M for firm portfolios and $1M to $3M for syndicated SPV investments.→ Consideration for services for companies requesting funding provided by the firm including interim or fractional C-suite positions, strategic planning in the areas of application development, organizational management, product management, product marketing, professional services, business development, and lastly, long term capital strategy formation including investment banking activities such as the execution of M&A transactions.

Irvine, California, United States

Providing foreign scale-ups and established start-ups with access to capital, strategic partners, and accelerated revenue pathways for successfully entering the US market.

Monet is a business intelligence platform for measuring content and message effectiveness based on true sentiment and engagement using non-verbal cues analysis, with low false positives. The platform relies on known techniques of audio and video data analysis including facial coding, voice and text analysis, and a user engagement and incentives platform that learns about users or traditional panelists over time, to enhance the quality of intelligence created. Monet has two issued and several pending patents on curating non-verbal reactions based on contextual feedback. Monet's initial focus is on message testing and content rating, primarily short-form branded video.

Despite sophisticated exercise equipment, activity tracking at clubs remains paper-based. SMC's integrated SaaS platform connects marketing, sales, members, trainers, nutritionists and equipment. Coupled with SMC's industry-first "Smart-Weight Pin", workout data from weight machines is automatically captured: weight-lifted, sets, reps, range of motion, and more. Because only 3% of America’s 52,000,000 health club members utilize their club’s nutrition or personal training services, huge potential remains for incremental service revenue.

A Facebook + CraigsList mashup for the global entertainment industry. ShowBizy is the 1st freemium directory targeting the broad entertainment industry. 650,000 contacts in TV, film, music, theatre, and entertainment from trusted sources such as The Hollywood Reporter, BluBook, Billboard, AdWeek, the Association of Community Theaters, and more. Casting call information, job listings, and an entertainment news feed, all personalized to match the interests and needs of each subscriber.

Executive management team member, reporting to CEO / Founder; late-stage, privately-financed, SaaS start-up, developing mobile cloud apps; led sales, marketing and business development.

Situational Readiness ASP solutions for incident monitoring, crisis management, and secure collaboration within public safety and health sectors; Executive management team member reporting to CEO. Acquired by strategic partner NC4

Officer and executive management team member; early stage, VC-funded start-up and developer of enterprise security software for provisioning user access rights; managed team of 14; acquired by IBM Tivoli.

Officer and executive management team member at the leader in computer peripherals; managed sales, marketing, support, finance and operations; managed team of 145; full P & L responsibility, growing revenue 350% to $448M; Fortune 500.

Managed sales, marketing and operations; delivered 25% of Lotus’ revenue.