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.
Travis Lindsay - CSUF Startup Incubator, Professor, Titan Angels
Richard Sudek - Executive Director of UCI Beall Applied Innovation
Dick Gochnauer - Co-founder, CEO Leadership Alliance, Orange County
Tony Smith - Co-founder, CEO of Restaurant365
Scott Hamilton, CEO of Executive Next Practices Institute (ENPI)
Sean Conrad, CEO of Internet Marketing Association (IMA)
Shawn Wehan - Co-founder / CEO, Givsum
Dalip Jaggi - Vincit; OC Tech Happy Hour; Coded in OC
Bill Carpou - CEO, OCTANe
Dan Rodrigues - Founder, CEO of Kareo
Andrew Lyon - Founding Dean, Fowler Engineering School at Chapman
Ray Grainger - Co-founder/CEO of Mavenlink
Michael Sawitz - Fast Start Studio
Scott Fox - Orange County Startup Council
Kyle Kamrooz - co-founder of Cloudvirga
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