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James Tamplin

Board Member at Charm Industrial

United States

Overview 

James Tamplin is a seasoned entrepreneur with a successful track record in founding and leading start-ups, including co-founding Firebase and serving as its CEO, and co-founding Covid Act Now. He has also made significant investments in various companies, such as Proof of Play, Superblocks, and Darkstore, among others. Currently, he serves as a Board Member at Charm Industrial and continues to play a key role in starting and supporting new ventures.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2018 - Current

    Our mission is to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm. We sequester carbon for millennia by taking biomass, turning it into bio-oil, and pumping it underground into old oil wells.

Charm Industrial is putting oil back underground via bio-oil sequestration and industrial syngas production.

Raised $100,000,000.00 from Exor Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, General Catalyst, Kinnevik, Thrive Capital, Breyer Labs and Elad Gil.

  • Co-Founder

    2020 - 2023

    501c3 that made COVID understandable with dashboards. Helped save X0,000s of lives by improving individual, business, and government decision-making.

  • Group Product Manager

    2014 - 2017

    Firebase was acquired by Google. I worked on making Firebase better using Google's resources.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2011 - 2017

    Tools and infrastructure powering >3,000,000 iOS, Android, and Web apps.

  • Co-Founder

    2008 - 2011

    I co-founded several startups before Firebase (all with the same co-founder) doing design, development, bizdev, marketing, taking out the trash, and everything in-between. Envolve: - Facebook-style chat for any website - Used by artists like Ricky Martin and startups like Genius.com - Shut down to focus on Firebase SendMeHome: - The world's first free lost and found tracking service - Voted #64 in PC Magazine's top 100 products of 2009 - Acquired by a larger competitor Keep Security: - We built a fingerprint sensor for the iPhone that authorized payments in 2008 - Failed; hardware is difficult

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