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Garry Cooper

Founder of Rheaply

Greater Chicago Area

Overview 

Garry Cooper is the CEO of Rheaply and Vice Chair of P33 Chicago. His career highlights include co-founding Rheaply and serving on the board of Mycocycle, Inc., showcasing his leadership in the tech and sustainability sectors.

Work Experience 

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Mycocycle, Inc.

  • Board Member

    2024 - Current

Converting waste streams into value streams.

Raised $6,429,353.00 from Closed Loop Ventures, The Illinois Innovation Venture Fund, U.S. Venture, Inc., TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good, Telescopic Ventures, The Josephine Collective, Alumni Ventures, TELUS, Anthropocene Ventures and 4WARD.VC.

mycocycle.com
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Rheaply

  • CEO & Co-founder

    2015

    I lead an amazing, passionate group of humans building technology that empowers other amazing, passionate humans to transform their companies into climate-focused organizations through resource exchange, reuse, and circularity. I have the absolute best job in the world, even on the bad days.

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P33 Chicago

  • Vice Chair

    2023

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2023

    P33 is enabling Chicago to become a global Tech leader.

P33 is a nonprofit organization for talent, education, capital, finance, business, community, culture, government and infrastructures.

Raised $3,000,000.00 from Minority Business Development Agency.

p33chicago.com
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LongJump

  • General Partner

    2021

LongJump is a first-check venture fund, based in Chicago, designed to invest in the next generation of founders.

longjump.vc
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The Aspen Institute

  • Henry Crown Fellow

    2023

    The Henry Crown Fellowship seeks to develop the next generation of community-spirited leaders, providing them with the tools to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It was established in 1997 to honor the life and career of Chicago industrialist Henry Crown (1896-1990) and was initially funded by the Henry and Gladys Crown Charitable Trust Fund. The program is the flagship Fellowship of the Aspen Institute and the founding Fellowship of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. For more information, visit http://www.aspeninstitute.org/crown.

Aspen-HP Digital Equity Accelerator is an accelerator that fuels innovation by investing in not-for-profit organizations and NGOs.

aspeninstitute.org
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1871

  • Board Member

    2020

1871 is a not-for-profit community that helps digital designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs build their startups and share ideas.

Raised $2,500,000.00.

1871.com
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Leadership Greater Chicago

  • Fellow

    2024 - 2024

    Daniel Burnham Fellowship

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Improovy

  • Board Member

    2022 - 2024

Improovy is on a mission to reinvent the way homeowners hire and work with painting contractors.

Raised $3,365,000.00 from Matt Pyatt, FJ Labs, Pareto Holdings, Jon Oringer, Eric Dunigan, Edward Lando, Nadav Ben-Chanoch, Taylor Katzman, Jeffrey Bieber and MATH Venture Partners.

improovy.com
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Emerson Collective

  • Dial Fellow

    2021 - 2023

Emerson Collective strengthens schools, secures rights for immigrants, and restores relationship between humanity and nature.

emersoncollective.com
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Northwestern University

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor

    2018 - 2021

    Contributing to the ongoing Parkinson’s disease drug discovery efforts and helping Northwestern trainees, faculty, and staff more seamlessly connect to the Chicago business community.

Education 

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