Katrina Benjamin currently is the CPO at Apartment List where she oversees Product Management, Design, Research and Analytics. Prior to Apartment List, Katrina spent 8 years at Upwork leading Operations, Marketing and Product teams. She was most recently VP of Product and GM of Talent Marketplace. She started her career in Operations and Strategy at Oportun Financial, a financial technology start-up. She is a graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Katrina lives in Colorado with her ...
Jan 20, 2022•22 min•Ep. 15
On this episode, hosts Adam and Chris speak with Mark Frank, the CEO and co-founder of SonderMind, whose focus is to democratize behavioral healthcare for both patients and practitioners by matching patients with highly qualified providers. Prior to founding SonderMind in 2015, Mark founded three other successful ventures, including Next Oncology, TermScout and SafeImageMD. Mark shares examples on why staying present along his career journey has lead to his biggest lesson plus his unique 12+ yea...
Jan 06, 2022•26 min•Ep. 14
Elle Navarro Bruno is the Managing Director of the Techstars & Western Union Accelerator. Elle has been a founder and startup operator for 19 years. In 2004 she started her first company, an eBay ancillary marketplace, and since then she has been involved in building three venture-backed startups, including Trunk Club. Her expertise is in consumer tech, specifically revenue and growth. Elle has been an angel investor and advisor since 2015, with a focus on investing in female founded compani...
Dec 16, 2021•22 min•Ep. 13
Loren Bendele has spent his career building, leading, and advising disruptor tech companies. He’s now the CEO of Arryved , an innovative fintech company going above and beyond standard point of sale systems. In this episode, hosts Adam and Chris learn how investing in people has made an impact in Loren's life and career and why Loren finds the Colorado's ecosystem so appealing Check out more about what we're up to at Range.vc Connect with Adam and Chris and the Range VC team on LinkedIn See Priv...
Dec 02, 2021•25 min•Ep. 12
Host Adam and Chris chat with Allison Lowrie who is a seasoned marketing leader that has spent the last 20 years growing consumer brands like Volkswagen, Celebrity Cruises, Cars.com, HomeAdvisor and Angie’s List. Allison helped take Angi Homeservices public while increasing revenue from $200M to $1.4B. She currently leads the marketing organization at Vacasa which is expected to make its public debut in 2021. Find out more about what we're up to at Range.vc Connect with Adam and Chris and the Ra...
Nov 18, 2021•21 min•Ep. 11
On this episode, Chris and Adam speak with Erik Mitisek , who is the Founder and CEO of the first open data platform for commercial insurance, Highwing . Erik has over two decades of experience leading ventures in the public, private, non-profit, and education spaces. Also a Colorado native, Erik shares his unique perspective on the growth in the Colorado tech ecosystem as well as his biggest lesson. Find out more about what we're up to at Range.vc Connect with Adam and Chris and the Range VC te...
Nov 04, 2021•24 min•Ep. 10
Jaclyn Hester is a Partner at Foundry Group , a venture firm that invests in tech companies and early stage venture funds. She helped launch Foundry's partner fund strategy in 2016 and works closely with Foundry's portfolio while also leading new fund investments. Prior to Foundry, Jaclyn was a practicing attorney, advising startups and private equity firms as well as M&A transactions. She also worked closely with her husband and his family on their SaaS startup, Fare Harbor which was acquir...
Oct 21, 2021•22 min•Ep. 9
Adam and Chris speak with Devin Tivona, a Colorado native and CO graduate who now is the Head of Travel at Coupa Software . Devon was the founder and CEO of Pana, a travel software company that went through Techstars Boulder in 2015 and subsequently raised over $15 million on its way to being successfully acquired by Coupa earlier this year. On this episode Devon shares tips for founders on how radical candor can build this type of "safe" environment and why company work culture has been so impo...
Oct 07, 2021•24 min•Ep. 8
Hosts Chris and Adam speak with Jenn Knight - Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of AgentSync. Jenn leads the product and engineering teams as they develop a frictionless, modern solution to some of the biggest pain points associated with insurance producer management – broker onboarding, contracting, and compliance management. Jenn and her co-founder and husband, Niji Sabharwal, believe that using technology to solve back-office bottlenecks will empower scaled innovation across the massive...
Sep 23, 2021•26 min•Ep. 7
Hosts Chris and Adam speak with Sean Roberts the COO at Orchard who is responsible for overseeing the company’s activities pertaining to real estate, risk management, data science, business intelligence and more. Sean began his career at Goldman Sachs and was an investor at TPG, a leading global private equity firm. On this episode Sean shares his fresh perspective on the environment for start-ups and investors in Colorado plus a few examples of his biggest lesson. Find out more about what we're...
Sep 09, 2021•20 min•Ep. 6
Nicole Glaros is currently the Chief Investment Strategy Officer at Techstars , where she helped grow the portfolio from 10 companies to over 2,500 and from $300K to over $750M under management. On this episode, hosts Adam and Chris speak with Nicole as she shares how her persistence manifested a role with Techstars, what her thoughts are on how to manage risk as an investor and how her Biggest Lesson has shaped her career Find out more about what we're up to at range.vc and connect with Adam an...
Aug 26, 2021•30 min•Ep. 5
In a very special episode, Adam and Chris speak with Eric Roza , the CEO of CrossFit who also serves on the boards of Crestone Capital, Endeavor , Sondermind, Spark Grills and as an advisor to Range Ventures. He started his career at Bain & Company and worked for a number of technology companies in product, marketing, strategy, and general management. Eric led the team that built Datalogix to its sale to Oracle for over a billion dollars. Hear how Eric uses his intuition to help guide him th...
Aug 12, 2021•28 min•Ep. 4
On this episode we hear from Danielle Wilkie, who has spent her 20+ year career following technology that transforms a variety of complex industries. Hosts, Adam and Chris find out what lead Danielle to her current role as Central Division President for Compass - a tech-enabled real estate brokerage firm. Danielle has been part of several successful startup exits including HomeAdvisor (f/k/a ServiceMagic sold to IAC in 2004) , NetQuote (sold to Bankrate in 2010) and Craftsy (sold to NBCUniversal...
Jul 29, 2021•25 min•Ep. 3
On this episode, hosts, Adam and Chris speak with Harsh Patel . A serial entrepreneur, who most recently led Galvanize as CEO, to a successful acquisition by Stride in 2020. Harsh shares his story on how he shifted from being a med student, to a tech founder. You'll hear deep insights on how being honest and direct impacted Harsh's time at Galvanize which ultimately taught him his biggest lessons he learned along his journey. Find out more about what we're up to at range.vc and connect with Adam...
Jul 15, 2021•22 min•Ep. 2
Welcome to My Biggest Lesson, the podcast that brings you the key learnings from the most influential founders, executives and investors in the Colorado tech community. Hosts, Adam and Chris speak with Josh Scott , who serves as a board member for several high-growth technology companies. Previously, Josh was a board member for and then President of Guild Education and co-founded Craftsy, which was acquired by NBCUniversal in 2017 . In this episode you’ll learn about what Josh is focused on curr...
Jul 15, 2021•25 min•Ep. 1
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