Workup is the first trusted marketplace for the $600 billion market for direct-to-consumer wellness products and solutions. We streamline customer education and product discoverability into a single, intuitive interface while providing brand-building tools to leading suppliers.

Building a community of people who share an interest in health, wellness and the cutting edge research surrounding living longer, healthier lives. Join me at https://ryanfrankel.substack.com/

Supporting a founding team and business that I believe in.

This App Saves Lives ("TASL") is a free mobile app that rewards drivers who choose not to engage in distracted driving. With TASL, drivers earn rewards points for time spent driving undistracted and those points are redeemable for amazing gifts from your favorite brands. TASL is a proud Techstars portfolio alumnus that was awarded Social Innovator of the Year by MAPFRE Insurance.

Independent business consultant working on behalf of Mastercard Advisors. Representative work experiences include: - Market landscape and competitive analyses for multiple clients across the financial services and consumer product industries - Digital transformation projects for financial services companies looking to overhaul their marketing website, online banking portal and mobile apps to better acquire, engage and retain customers - Conducting video and telephonic consumer interviews to help brands better understand the wants and needs of their customers and target audience - Delivering a comprehensive analysis to a major U.S-based airline on how to drive customer loyalty in an increasingly commoditized industry - Conducting trend analyses on digital financial tools to help a credit union and a large financial services company identify which products and services to invest in over the near and long-term - Helping a credit union determine how to drive top-of-wallet status amongst its cardholder base

Nutrition For All: Make Better Choices With Your Virtual Dietitian.EduPlated connects people aspiring to make better nutritional decisions with an online community of personalized nutrition coaches. Our mission is to democratize access to best-in-class nutrition professionals to help people make better nutritional decisions and filter quality advice from an increasingly complicated and misleading nutritional landscape. Clients interact with their dedicated Registered Dietitian coach and communicate via a secure messaging iPhone app designed to help clients achieve their goals and dietitians provide the best service.

The most brutally honest and candid inside look into the entrepreneurial journey all through the single lens of one entrepreneur’s journal entries recounting his experiences launching a startup.

VerbalizeIt (acquired by Smartling in 2016), was a platform that couples best-in-class technology and a community of 30,000 vetted translators to empower businesses to go global. VerbalizeIt delivered translation in 150 languages across web, mobile, document and video to enable brands to preserve and amplify their voice over multiple mediums of communication.

Sourced, evaluated and operationally managed private equity transactions across the alternative energy, business and consumer services, IT and healthcare sectors. Responsible for conducting due diligence, financial modeling and post-investment performance analysis to asses value creation opportunities. Collaborated with portfolio company management to achieve financing, liquidity, salesforce effectiveness, cost reduction and merger integration solutions. Created the Division's first Entrepreneurs In Residence program. Designed and executed macro-trading, fixed income and alternative energy principal investing transactions. Responsibilities included modeling and valuation, structuring payoff profiles, presenting to senior leadership, managing counterparty relationships and deal execution. Prior to applying to and enrolling in business school, I helped the firm's Bank Holding Company team model capital ratios, conduct stress tests and calculate global credit derivative and counterparty exposure.