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Kevin Croy

Founder of 9Mile Labs

Anchorage, Alaska

Overview 

Kevin Croy is the Co-Founder & Partner at 9Mile Labs, a startup accelerator, where he leverages his expertise in entrepreneurship, fundraising, and infrastructure to support early-stage companies. With a background that includes roles at Expedia and founding successful ventures like Lostpedia.com, Kevin brings a wealth of experience in enterprise software, strategic partnerships, and cloud computing to his current position. His career highlights include co-founding Jupiter Hosting, Inc. and PayCounter.com, Inc., showcasing a track record of launching and scaling successful tech ventures. Kevin's role as a Co-Founder & Partner at 9Mile Labs allows him to invest in and mentor startups in sectors such as social networks, AI, and SaaS, further solidifying his reputation as a seasoned entrepreneur and investor in the Seattle/Portland ecosystem.

Work Experience 

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9Mile Labs

  • Co-Founder & Partner

    2012 - Current

    9Mile Labs is a micro-VC firm based in Seattle, WA. We partner with the top startup accelerators around the country to meet their startups and invest in their most promising B2B startups. We typically invest $50-100k chunks into pre-seed rounds. When a trusted member of our network makes an introduction to us, we work hard to arrive at a "Yes" or "No" investment decision quickly. We believe telling an entrepreneur "Maybe" is the worst thing an investor can say. Please send promising B2B startups my way!

9Mile Labs is a Seattle-based Enterprise / B2B startup accelerator

9milelabs.com

49th State Angel Fund

  • Advisory Committee Member

    2018 - 2021

    Started in 2012 by a $13.2 million allocation from US Department of Treasury's State Small Business Credit Initiative, 49SAF is a venture capital function run by the Municipality of Anchorage. We work with Partner Funds to provide a dollar for dollar, private to public funding match for investments. Fund managers in turn provide managerial and entrepreneurial expertise to their investees, creating economic benefit for the citizens of Anchorage.

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Advaiya

  • Consultant - Enterprise Infrastructure

    2011 - 2012

    Product Manager for infrastructure security appliance on behalf of a confidential enterprise client.

Making technology work

advaiya.com
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Expedia

  • Principal Engineer

    2010 - 2010

    I managed the customer-facing infrastructure strategy for the worlds largest online travel agency.

Expedia Group is a internet providing company they help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections.

expediagroup.com

Lostpedia.com

  • Founder

    2005 - 2008

    (Acquired by Wikia, Inc) Lostpedia has been featured in Rolling Stone, Wired magazine, CNN, Business Week, Entertainment weekly, among others. It started as a hobby and exploded into the number one fan-site for the show. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lostpedia

Jupiter Hosting, Inc

  • Co-Founder & Sr Vice President

    2002 - 2007

    (Acquired by Navisite, Inc) Jupiter Hosting was a managed hosting provider that specialized in building and managing complex, clustered hosting platforms for high-bandwidth streaming applications.

PayCounter.com, Inc.

  • Co-Founder & CTO

    1999 - 2002

Wintelcom, Inc.

  • Co-Founder & Director of Operations

    1997 - 1999

Uptime Computer Solutions, Inc.

  • Sr. Consultant

    1994 - 1997

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