James Tamplin
Board Member at Charm Industrial
United States
Overview
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