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Miracle on the Hudson
Talks about Miracle on the Hudson, plane crash and rescue operation
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Janis Krums
Managing Partner
Sarasota, Florida
Overview
Janis Krums is a Managing Partner at BOB Hotels - Boutique on Budget, with a strong background in entrepreneurship and venture capital investments. Notable career highlights include founding EKJ Capital and making investments in successful companies like PayQin and FiscalNote.
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2023 - Current
The next generation of budget hotels. Created for the modern traveler, we’re elevating budget stays into fresh and original experiences.
Founder
2014
Investments include - Plangrid, SingleStore, FiscalNote, Aerones, MeUndies, Flexport, Verano
Investor
2022
Early funding for CEE startups, led by founders & operators. Among members/investors - founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Bolt ($1.3B funding), Vimeo ($450M), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M funding), Pipedrive ($90M), Apollo.io ($151M funding), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M).
Venture Partner
2019
Angel Investor
2011
Investor in the seed round at MemSQL. MemSQL is a next generation database that removes the most common bottleneck most applications hit today: disk. By offering a familiar relational interface to an in-memory data tier, MemSQL empowers developers with the technology web-scale companies use to cope with massive traffic and growth. MemSQL offers orders of magnitude improvements in write and read performance and greatly simplifies application development and maintenance.
SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications.
Raised $464,100,000.00 from Prosperity7 Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, Sanabil, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, IBM Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Google Ventures and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Investor
2014
FiscalNote has built a platform for real-time open data analysis that aggregates, analyzes, and forecasts government action. Our vision is to create a legal and political system that is transparent and predictable using artificial intelligence and machine learning to combat injustice and uncertainty. Our first product, FiscalNote Prophecy, allows for easy searching, tracking, and forecasting of legislation from all 50 states and Congress, all in real-time. We're taking a technological approach to provide users with immediate notification and analysis of any legislative action in the country. In addition, Prophecy forecasts the likelihood of any bill passing. As a result, organizations: * Reduce political risk * Decrease costs of regulatory compliance * Make real-time decisions in response to government action
FiscalNote uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver predictive analytics on government information to determine its impact.
Raised $637,332,510.00 from Bossa Invest.
Angel Investor
2018
Aerones builds heavy-lift (max 440lbs payload) tethered drones for wind turbine cleaning, de-icing and applying hydrophobic coatings. Electricity and water is provided with a cable from the ground so the drone can fly for as long as needed. With AI would be used to automate cleaning process.
Aerones is an innovative company that develops robotic technology for wind turbine blade maintenance services.
Raised $50,925,861.00 from European Union.
Angel Investor
2015
The World's Most Comfortable Underwear
MeUndies brings together sustainable fabric and innovative design to make soft underwear and loungewear for its customers.
Raised $50,400,000.00 from Provenance.
Angel Investor
2022
Floor is on a mission to make NFTs understandable and accessible. 📱 Token-gated portfolio app to understand your NFTs 🌎 Built in public w/ 3,500 NFT holders 🎁 Exclusive access to top NFT projects 🥰 Positive vibes only
Investor
2020
A hydroponic, indoor city farm that grows leafy greens year-round in technology based, climate controlled environments.
Bringing production to the point of consumption in urban agriculture
Raised $9,250,000.00.
Education
Investments
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