Ralph Folz Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Provide advice and mentoring to Harvard students & alumni in their startup endeavors.

Boston, Ma, Us

Flipside Crypto enables blockchains to live up to their full potential, by empowering their communities with free and accessible data to drive analytics and insights. The company is backed by True Ventures, Founder Collective, CoinBase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, and Galaxy Digital.

Harrison, New York, Us

Broadlume is the world's largest provider of digital technology to the flooring industry. Member of the Board of Directors for 2 years through its acquisition by Cyncly in December 2024. Broadlume's investors include Providence Strategic Growth, Entree Capital, and Founder Collective.

Boston, Ma, Us

Unstack is a no-code platform for creating high performance, customized commerce experiences on Shopify. I was an angel investor in the first round of funding, and I joined the Board of Directors shortly thereafter. I served on the Board of Directors through its acquisition by Elastic Path in April 2023.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns on the major digital ad platforms. Member of the Board of Directors for 3 years through its acquisition by Quartile in December 2021. Sidecar's investors include Ascent Venture Partners, Harbert Growth Partners and Osage Venture Partners.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

In my role as Executive Chairman I led the process which resulted in the acquisition of WordStream by Gannett in July of 2018.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

WordStream is SaaS company in the digital advertising space. WordStream's easy-to-use software guides marketers through steps that can greatly improve their Google, Bing, and Facebook campaigns, I joined as CEO after WordStream raised its B-round of funding. During my tenure revenue grew from $1m to $50m a year.

Boston, Ma, Us

Codeship is a provider of hosted continuous integration solutions that empower software build and test automation. I joined their Board of Directors in February 2016 to offer my expertise to help fuel continued rapid growth. In February 2018, the company was acquired by Cloudbees. Codeship was part of the Techstars Spring 2013 class and was funded by Sigma Prime, Ascent, F-Prime and Boston Seed.

Boston, Ma, Us

Backupify provides daily automatic backups, archiving, and export for social media and cloud-based data. Member of the Board of Directors for 4 years through its acquisition by Datto in December 2014 (Datto then acquired by Vista Equity Partners in December 2017). Funded by Symantec, Avalon Ventures, General Catalyst, and First Round Capital.

London, London, Gb

Promoted to a global role within Isobar (agency holding company that acquired Molecular). In this role I focused on an aggressive buy-side acquisition program and the structure, process, and operations to facilitate Isobar's 40 different countries and 3,500 employees to operate as one unified entity.

Watertown, Ma, Us

Co-founder and CEO of this venture backed, nationally recognized Internet consulting firm. Grew Molecular from a two person startup into a highly rated provider and thought leader in the Internet digital marketing space. Orchestrated a successful sale to Isobar (part of Aegis Media) in May of 2005.

Boston, Ma, Us

The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) is New England's largest industry and professional organization where technology, marketing and digital media intersect. Member companies include Google, Adobe, Isobar, Microsoft, IBM, and other digital marketing leaders.Served on the Board of Directors for 9 years from 1998 through 2007, and led the Board as President of the association from 2002 through 2004.

Ms, Software Engineering

Bs, Computer Engineering