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.
Nick Bucheleres - Founder & CEO of Grin Gaming
Jeremy Redman - Founder & CEO of Vone
JP La Torre - Co-Founder & CEO of Caylent
Larry Gulko - Brand Strategist & Brand New Day Retreat
(Part 2) Ian Hathaway - Co-Author of The Startup Community Way, Senior Director at TechStars
Nick Cromydas - Founder & CEO of Hunt Club
David Meltzer - Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing; Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur
Luke Cooper - Founder & CEO of Fixt
Nick Bradley - Co-founder & Director at Fielding Group
(Part I) John Dearie - President of Center for American Entrepreneurship
(Part I) Ian Hathaway - Co-Author of The Startup Community Way, Senior Director at TechStars
Anthony Saba - Executive Director of Samueli Academy
Andy Wilson - Executive Director at Alliance for Southern California Innovation
Katrina Ghazarian - Founder & CEO of Gameday HR
Neal Hansch - CEO & Managing Partner of Silicon Foundry
Andrew Bermudez - Founder & CEO of Digsy
Denise Hazime - Founder & President of Prodoscore
Neal Bloom - CEO of Rising Tide Partners, Founder of Fresh Brewed Tech
Jenny Dinnen - President, Sales & Marketing of MacKenzie Corporation
Per Welinder - Partner at Welinder Shi Capital
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