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.
Niall McSheffrey - Managing Partner of Elementz Ventures
Dean Kline - Senior Managing Director at USC Rossier EdVentures
Carson Lappetito - President of Sunwest Bank
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Mike Gentile - Founder, CEO of CISO Share
Matt Case - President of Bionatus
Special Episode - Non-profit leadership during a crisis with Dawn Reese of The Wooden Floor
Sinan Kanatsiz - Founder and CEO of KCOMM, Founder of Internet Marketing Association
Special Episode - Intro to OC4 Venture Studio with Kyle Kamrooz & Carey Ransom
Matt Hayden - Founder of Sea Purity Investments, Chairman of MZ Group
Hicham Semaan - President of Tech Coast Angels, Orange County Chapter
Jeff Bocan - Partner at Okapi Venture Capital
Doug Wilson - Founder & Chairman of CEO Leadership Alliance of Orange County
Toby Corey - Stanford Lecturer, Former President of Tesla
Marinela Gombosev - CEO of Evoke Neuroscience
Sergey Sundukovskiy - CTO & CPO of Certemy
Andy Fathollahi - Founder/CEO of The Kanvas Company; Founder/Chairman of Incipio Group
Tom Baine - President of Landsea Homes
Nick Smoot - Founder & CEO of Innovation Collective
Sue Parks - CEO of Orange County United Way
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