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Saucey

Saucey is the leading e-commerce, compliance and logistics provider to regulated retailers. Powering safer and more convenient experiences for customers and retailers. 

We work with regulated retailers across 1,200+ cities to drive additional revenues, customers and provide insights/tools to help them manage their store online. 

Saucey also powers some of the world's largest brands to connect with and understand their end consumers, including Diageo, AB-InBev, Bacardi, Coca Cola, Constellation and more.

Highlights:
-Millions of happy customers across the U.S.
-Grown from $0 to hundreds of millions in sales
-Sent customers to the Super Bowl, Olympics, Adult Summer Camp and more
-Driven hundred of millions in incremental revenue to independent retailers 
-Built smart appliances that auto re-order beer
-Channing Tatum, Nick Jonas and more have all been delivery drivers
-Launched dozens of new brands into target markets

Founder & CEO

ROARKE

Roarke is an unlimited Design & Web Development subscription for the world's most ambitious brands.

Used by SaaS companies, Startups, DTC brands, Agencies, Franchises, and high-growth businesses to unlock their potential online. Roarke supercharges the design and development process, helping companies move faster and bring big ideas to life seemingly overnight.

Partner

Hampton

Hampton is a private, highly vetted community of high growth founders, entrepreneurs, and CEO’s.

Founding Member

Emjay

Emjay is a leading omni-channel cannabis technology platform.

In it’s first two years:
-Hundreds of thousands of customers served
-6 M&A transactions
-Grew from $0 to 7-figures/month in 6 months
-First native iOS application to sell cannabis in the app-store

textPlus, Inc.

textPlus is one of the largest texting & calling apps with over 70M users.

I oversaw US marketing/growth, user acquisition and CRM through digital and traditional channels. Including being one of the first/largest advertisers on Facebook's native ads platform (brand new at the time). Acquired millions of new users/month, tracking performance, executing & reporting against key KPI’s, and identifying channels that brought in higher LTV customers.

Helped plan our international launch. Oversaw all creative for advertising, marketing campaigns, and the textPlus brand.

Lead our ad sales platform, securing $millions in ad revenue from some of the world's largest brands.

Separately split out a small 6-person team to build an ultra low-cost international calling platform. Took it from concept / design / telco contracts to launch in 2.5 months.

Marketing Director & Head of Partnerships

Jarvus (Acquired by textPlus)

(Acquired by TextPlus) Jarvus was an iOS app that let people capture life's moments with their friends and family. It would analyze the geo-tags and time-stamps in your iPhone's photo album, match you with Facebook friends that were in the same places at the same time, and easily create group albums using you and your friend's photos. 

You could apply beautiful filters, effects and stickers to your content, and upload/share the collective "memories" / albums on Jarvus or across your social accounts. 

Featured on Jimmy Fallon. Celebrities shared moments with their friends and fans. TextPlus tagged us in a post on Jarvus that they wanted to acquire the platform. The rest is history.

Coupeez Inc

Coupeez was an early online deals platform unlocking customer savings across local businesses.  

-Lead product design and built the iOS and Android applications (very early app-store days). This is what opened my eyes to how mobile was going to change every business in the world.
-Designed our UI & UX for web, iOS, and Android from scratch. 
-Curated categories of deals and onboarded thousands of local businesses throughout California to our marketplace.

Head of Product

Over the past decade, I've built three multimillion-dollar businesses while growing a family and raising four children.

I started with no resources, no connections, and didn’t have access to the playbooks that would have made the journey 10X easier. 

As a kid, I made money garden landscaping for families at church, manufacturing merchandise for private clubs, and then developing websites and running ad campaigns for local companies.

By 21, I was founding companies. In the decade since, I've:

➤ Generated $300M+ in revenue
➤ Built operations in 1,000+ U.S. cities
➤ Served over 3 million customers globally
➤ Helped grow hundreds of small businesses
➤ Raised $30M+ in capital from Angels, VCs, Private Equity, and Family Offices
➤ Successfully navigated both successful and failed multimillion-dollar acquisitions
➤ Been featured in leading publications like Forbes, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, USA Today and more
➤ Worked with and advised the world's most iconic brands, including Diageo, Mars, Tesco, 7-Eleven, AB-InBev, Molson Coors, and Constellation

BUT, the journey was hard (harder than it needed to be).

I’ve faced many of the things you don't think about when starting a company:

→ Fought off (and won) predatory lawsuits
→ Closed a Seed round days after my wedding
→ Negotiated with demanding government agencies
→ Worked with lobbyists to introduce or change legislation
→ Raised a Series A while in the hospital for my first son's birth
→ Navigated a failed multi-million dollar merger while my daughter was born
→ Survived near-extinction events where we had single-digit weeks or days to save the company

Personal interests: Boxing, strength training, being in the ocean, spending quality time with my wife Danielle and our four little ones.

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Block On Ventures

BlockOn is a worldwide blockchain venture builder / VC firm providing incubation, acceleration and advisory support to global innovators in blockchain and emerging technology.

BlockOn helps innovators from seed to sale. We guide innovators in the development their idea and road maps, accelerate their development and customer acquisition efforts, connect with and secure investment and partnerships, and gain visibility through online and in-person community building efforts. In addition to our client services, we are premiere hosts of the most impactful blockchain events in the ASEAN region, and beyond. By partnering with some of the biggest players in the ASEAN government and private sector, and some of the most active communities in the cryptosphere, BlockOn is committed to revolutionizing the world and professionalizing the blockchain space.

Founder

AccInvest

• Founded and led AccInvest, a premier accelerator and venture builder program in Dubai, empowering early-stage Web3, crypto AI, and blockchain startups in South Asia.
• Provided mentorship, guidance, significant funding opportunities, and hands-on support to help startups achieve their goals.
• Developed strategic partnerships and fostered a collaborative ecosystem to drive innovation and growth within the Web3 and blockchain industry.

Marine Asset Exchange Limited

Shipfinex  is going to power Tokenising of Ships (Fractionalised Real-World Assets), Global Payments, Remittances & Operational Services that keep ships working 24/7

Incubator 

INCUBATE FINANCE

incub8 is a global community fostering the growth of innovative crypto, Blockchain, and other emerging tech startups, that connects the startups with the appropriate entities required to support the growth of the startup ecosystem.

Innovation needs "a constantly engaged community of entrepreneurs and developers who imagine novel ideas and create new projects to bring innovative products to market."

The incub8 ecosystem consists of industry-leading #startups, #investors, #incubators, #accelerators, #educators, #mentors, #government agencies, and #collaborators.

CREBACO - Credit Rating for Exchanges, Blockchains and Coin Offerings

Early Stage Investor

Rapidz

Rapidz was founded in 2017, Rapidz re-imagines the payment experience and propels the crypto ecosystem to a broader audience. The company offers users the ability to hold, spend and save digital currencies.  Rapidz allows users to top up mobile plans across 170 countries and shop at 155,000 merchants including Major Group in Thailand (Cineplex, McDonalds etc.) using digital currencies. Their innovative Initial Wallet Offering (IWO) brings utility and spendability to tokens. App users enjoy payment and remittance services at the lowest rates with ease. Send and receive crypto as effortlessly as email.

Block On IT Services Pvt Ltd

Help the blockchain based tech companies to raise funds through crowd-sourcing.
Provide a complete gamut of technical and PR services for a successful ICO.
Engage with the startup from early stage and provide handholding for smooth journey through the ICO.

TuneToken

Amazing ico project that decentralizes music,  awesome management team and longevity of royalty based ecosystem.

Early stage investor 

Global Crypto Hub

Global Crypto Hub (GCH) is focussed on spreading awareness and knowledge regarding blockchain and crypto currency across South and South-East Asia and Middle-East. 
GCH has conducted more than 8 premium events under the flagship Crypto Currency Expo in India, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore including blockchain hackathon in Philippines. Participation so far been more than 5,000 from 12 geographies.
Acquired Asian Blockchain Expo in 2017.

IT Company Nobel Networld

IT web services company serving the clients with web/Mobile based applications as well as customised software applications. Clientele included prominent corporates of South-East Asia.

Founder @ Block On Ventures. Investor, Accelerator, Venture Builder, Speaker . Blockchain, Crypto , Web3.0 and AI. " Do not pitch for any physical product business at all."

Founder of Block On Ventures. We specialize in accelerating startups within the blockchain and emerging tech sectors. 

Our commitment has been unwavering over a decade, fostering a dynamic ecosystem where innovation thrives. 

As an early-stage investor, i look forward to transform the landscape of Real World Assets, creating a more accessible and efficient market. Our collaborative approach with government agencies and industry leaders in the ASEAN region amplifies our impact and drives progress within the blockchain community.

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