I was super excited to have my friend Grant Van Cleve join the conversation on Accelerate OC. We got to hear about his amazing journey and he shared his wisdom about both investing in startups and leading one, as well as his thoughts on Orange County as an innovation community.
Grant is currently the CEO of Buy It Installed, an exciting and fast-growing company that automates the process of getting a professional installer to a consumer around a purchase that requires it. In our conversation he shared how he got involved.
He’s also the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Tech Coast Angels (TCA), the premier angel investor group in the country, with over 400 members in the 5 Southern California chapters. Formerly he was the president of the Orange County TCA chapter, and he’s been a super active investor, in which I’d actually say active is an understatement! How many investments, boards and advisor roles he’s managing is incredible.
Grant is an inspiration to many of us here who are working to build a more inclusive, open and connected innovation community in Orange County. Grant lives that way every day and his leadership is so authentic. I always feel like the group or conversation is better and enriched when he’s a part of it.
Dave Ferrera - General Partner of Treadstone Holdings
Sloane Keane - CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and Inland Empire
Jeff Martin - CEO & Founder of Collective Genius
Minnie Ingersoll - Partner at TenOneTen
Curtis Boyd - Founder & CEO of Objection Co
Zach Silverman - Founder of Educated Investors
Marvin Liao - Partner at GameGroove Capital & Former Partner at 500 Startups
Rajeev Kapur - President & CEO of 1105 Media
Tommy Tallarico - President & CEO of Intellivision Entertainment
William Fikhman - Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Amazzia
Joshua Lee - Founder & CEO of Ardius
Annette Walker - President of City of Hope OC
Libby Duane Adams - Co-founder & Chief Advocacy Officer of Alteryx
Bob Nunn - CEO of Everactive
Deepa Krishnan - Co-founder & CEO of Spoonful
Kelly Perdew - Co-founder & Managing Partner of Moonshots Capital
Jennifer Friend - CEO of Project Hope Alliance
Ben Kuo - Founder & Publisher of socalTECH
(Part 2) John Dearie - President of Center for American Entrepreneurship
Giorgi Chigogidze & Chris Steege - Co-founders & CEO, CMO, respectively at Purlin
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