Dave Kerpen
Managing Director at Kerpen Ventures
Port Washington, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
2019 - Current
Apprentice is a platform that connects entrepreneurs and business leaders with smart and motivated college students that are looking for real-world experience and mentorship. Apprentices work between 10 and 15 hours per week from college, on anything and everything needed to make their leaders’ lives easier and to make them more effective. Learn more now at http://ChooseApprentice.com
Expert
2024
The first online marketplace directly connecting buyers with sellers of Saas products.
Raised $1,359,654.00 from Plug and Play.
Author
2024
My 4th business book and 5th book overall, Get Over Yourself: How to Lead and Delegate Effectively for More Time, More Freedom, and More Success is a roadmap for entrepreneurs, small business owners and leaders at companies of all sizes. Published by BenBella, the book is endorsed by Barbara Corcoran, Jesse Cole, AJ Jacobs, Dorie Clark and Pat Flynn.
BenBella Books is a publishing boutique that aims to be the publisher of choice for a select group of authors who value personal attention.
Advisor
2022
Helping company scale while helping the world be more grateful. Meaningful. Purposeful. Grateful Giving. Where businesses give to nonprofits that matter most to their customers and employees
Grateful is a platform where businesses and individuals can send a virtual giving card
Advisor
2021
I’m helping this amazing, healthy chocolate company scale.
Bon AppéSweet creates an all-natural, plant-based, oat milk gelato sweetened with fruit-based sweeteners and zero cane sugar.
Advisor
2021
I’m helping this exciting startup that democratizes access to mentorship scale up.
Advisor
2021
I’m helping this amazing startup scale up. It’s a values-based subscription box for kids and their parents, teaching kindness, courage, gratitude and more!
Advisor
2021
I’m helping this creative marketplace startup scale up.
Media-Technology platform that connects small business owners with creative professionals on a subscription model
Raised $3,100,000.00 from Terrence Murphy and Kerpen Ventures.
Executive Chairman
2021
The Nursing Beat is dedicated to helping nurses and other frontline healthcare professionals live their best life, from navigating the changing world of health to helping you balance the responsibilities of work and home. We understand the roadblocks that can make this seem impossible—frontline healthcare professionals are often under-supported or undervalued commensurate to their contributions, often overworked and underpaid, and face increasingly difficult working conditions. We are here to connect like-minded professionals with each other and with expert resources and content to provide the support and care every frontline healthcare professional deserves. Our team recognizes the need for a better support system for nurses and advanced practice providers. This is why we created Florence Health, an online resources and social networking platform (Huddle) geared towards empowering nurses to share insights and experiences, connect, learn, collaborate, and support one another. What’s more: we want to help you take better care of each other and yourself.
The Nursing Beat offers daily healthcare newsletters to nurses, helping them stay informed and save time.
Managing Director
2021
Kerpen Ventures is an investment vehicle through which serial entrepreneurs and wife and husband team Carrie and Dave Kerpen invest in early stage startups (pre-seed or seed round) who meet one or more of the following criteria: 1) Female founder / owner 2) BIPOC founder / owner 3) Social impact focus If you meet these criteria, we look forward to talking!
Education
BS and BA
1994 - 1998
Certificate
1989 - 1994