I build million-dollar marketing engines. 15x from $0 to $3MM+ ARR so far. Founder @CrowdTamers

I launch 🚀 startups. 15x from $0 to $2MM+ ARR so far, founder @CrowdTamers. CrowdTamer, leader, and growth content marketing thinker.  FI Mentor since 2017; my mission is to help 1,000 founders make >$1MM in annual revenue.

Check out my blog at http://crowdtamers.com/blog to read about how. ;)

Key achievements:
* Oversaw growth of 15 companies to grow them from $0 to $3MM+ in annual revenue
* Built 12 high-achieving international teams of marketers from scratch at different companies
* Generated more than $50MM in revenue for companies I've lead marketing & revenue at

Specialties: senior management, management, product portfolio management, public speaking, PR, online marketing, marketing planning, team leadership, writing, and video games.

Trevor Longino

Over the holiday break, it feels like Claude Code and Opus 4.5 + Nano-banana and Veo have all bubbled up to a level of consciousness wherever I look, all I see is people discovering this stuff. 

I've been teaching founders and entrepreneurs about how to use Claude Code to take care of tons of your business deliverables and scale things faster since last October. 

And I have a 4-workshop series I'm rolling out in February with all of the newest, latest, greatest techniques that I've been using to scale my business that you could use to scale yours.  It's free, and I'm doing it with Founder Institute. Want an invite to it? Drop a comment below with "Superpowers" and I'll DM you the link.

You don’t need a marketing agency. you need a CrowdTamer. Founder & CEO @CrowdTamers 🦁

Asset Management | Startups & Venture Capital | NTX Inno Under 25 | SkillsUSA Past National Officer & National Champion |

To Pitch Geek Ventures: https://geek.vc/pitch
To Request Sarah as a speaker or judge for an event: Send Sarah a DM.

Sarah Romanko is on the investment team at Geek Ventures, where she focuses on sourcing, screening, conducting in-depth analysis of prospective startups, and closing deals. She also works with founders post-investment, and leads community and brand-building efforts by managing the firm’s LinkedIn presence, creating original content, securing event partnerships, and actively speaking at and judging industry events.

Through this work, Sarah has become highly active in the startup and venture capital community. She has built a strong personal brand on LinkedIn with more than 24,000 followers and has delivered over 70 speaking engagements, including Austin Tech Week, Venture Institute (four times), Columbia Business School (twice), Texas Venture Gala and Forum (twice), Goodie Nation (twice), Founder Institute, Startup Grind, University of California at Berkeley, St. Edward’s University, and the University of Texas at Dallas. Her speaking topics span pitching, fundraising, investing, evaluating startups, and breaking into venture capital. In addition, she has participated in 40 judging and mentorship sessions, including gener8tor (six times), Startup Grind (twice), SaaStock USA, and Founded in Texas. Her leadership extends beyond speaking and mentorship. Sarah served as Chief of Staff for the 2024 and 2025 Texas Venture Gala and Forum, Chief of Staff for the 2024 and 2025 Texas Venture Fest, and as an SXSW Conference PanelPicker Evaluator in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Most recently, she was awarded a full scholarship to Cohort 20 of VC University, a highly selective program powered by the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, the National Venture Capital Association, and Venture Forward.

She deeply cares about giving back to her community. In her free time and at no cost, she advises female and diverse founders on pitch decks, fundraising strategies, and business improvement, and mentors individuals at all stages of their careers on how to break into venture capital. She’s also a member of organizations that encourage diversity in VC: All Raise, Austin Women in VC, Capital Collective, Global Women in VC, Goodie Nation, and Partner Track.  

Outside of her professional endeavors, Sarah loves spending time with her family, friends, and fiancé. She also enjoys going to the arcade. An arcade master, she taught herself how to win countless stuffed animals from crane games by watching YouTube videos.

Sarah Romanko

Unpopular opinion: Cold DMs actually work. 

After all, this is how I heard about NexHacks, the largest hackathon on the east coast with 1500+ hackers.

I give credit to Edward Lee; he reached out to me introducing himself, we hopped on a call to discuss sourcing deals, and then he shared the vision for NexHacks.

I wasn’t planning to travel so early in the year, but I was immediately intrigued when I heard about NexHacks. It stood out to me because it was geared towards VCs, with a startup demo day, a VC speaker panel, and an opportunity to judge the hackathon.

I’ve judged many startup events - and participated in mentoring sessions - with founders, but what was different about judging a hackathon was focusing more on the technical aspects of the product, what was created from scratch versus using existing tools, and how creative/innovative the solution was given that each team only had 24 hours.

Some interesting projects:
• A robot that could identify a person in a building and guide them to safety in the event of a fire
• A tutoring app that could communicate with a student in real-time through voice and text to help them learn, and even write on the page
• An AI coding tool that saves thousands of tokens without compromising speed or accuracy
• An AI companion that checks in with students, listens, and helps them get real support faster by scheduling therapy appointments

If you’re building at the intersection of AI and robotics and have a strong “why now”, my DMs are open! At Geek Ventures, we invest in exceptional immigrant founders to the U.S. at pre-seed and seed, and events like this make me excited about the next generation of startups.

Thank you to everyone that made this event possible:
• Organizers and volunteers: Arnav Chauhan, Rishab Siddamshetty, Sohum Gautam, Elly Peng, Saket Kulkarni, Ethan Ng, Arihant Jain, Siddharth Abburi, Mihika Bhowmik, and Tiger Zhang
• Speakers: Matt Spettel, Yasin Ehsan 🚀, Shamus Madan, Bryan Hong, Cory Levy, Niko Bonatsos, C.C. Gong, Lisa Dolan, Maha Malik, Shaheer Sandhu, and Vanessa Larco
• My fellow VCs at the demo day and speed dating session: Youssef Rezkalla, Baylor Adams, Irene (Heejin) Koo, Jay Sehgal, jack mcclelland, and Nadia Susanto
• Sponsors: The Token Company (YC W26), Polymarket, LiveKit, Kairo, Arize AI, Seda, Wood Wide AI, DevSwarm, Overshoot, Leanmcp, and Wispr Flow
• Major League Hacking Representatives: Ryan Lahlou and Kevin C.

Most of all, thank you to Adil Amanullah for a warm welcome to Pittsburgh, and to Edward Lee, Tiger Zhang, and Ryan Ni for the entertaining late night conversations (and pictures).

Finally, thank you to the hackers and my fellow judges for giving it your all last weekend! I am already looking forward to the next event.

#VentureCapital #Startups #Hackathon #Founders #EarlyStage

Venture Capital @ Geek Ventures | Investing in Immigrant Founders

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