Kris Duggan

Co-Founder

2018 - Current

Advisory Chair

2012

The accelerator dedicated to enterprise startups. Helping change how entrepreneurs build companies. Over the last ten years, I have worked with 200+ entrepreneur CEOs to help them on go-to-market strategy, sales, marketing, fundraising, and more in an effort to help them scale.

Investor

2016

I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to invest in truly innovative companies. These include Addepar, Airbnb (via HotelTonight), Blend Labs, Docker, Gusto, Matternet, Turo, Palantir and several others, and have gone on to raise $9B+ in institutional funding. I strongly encourage job seekers to apply directly to these world changing companies. Descriptions: Addepar - investment management platform - $473M raised Airbnb - via HotelTonight acquisition - $4.4B raised, public Blend Labs - helping mortgage lenders be borrower-friendly - $665M raised, public Docker - platform for distributed applications - $308M raised Gusto - modern payroll - $516M raised Matternet - medicine via drone delivery - $41M raised Turo - car sharing service - $437M raised Palantir - platform for analyzing information - $2B+ raised, public

Member, Board of Directors

2018 - 2023

Flowhub is state of the art POS built specifically for the cannabis industry - speeding customer check-out times while helping manage complex regulatory compliance obligations. The largest retailers in the industry trust Flowhub to power their supply chain and POS infrastructure. Supporting a projected $150B market by 2025.

Founding CEO

2013 - 2017

BetterWorks provides continuous performance management to help employees easily set goals and give ongoing feedback. Our platform seamlessly connects the four aspects of a performance process – goals, check-in conversations, peer feedback and reviews – to help organizations improve employee performance and engagement. Today, the company has almost 100 employees, and works with over 250 customers. BetterWorks is funded by Kleiner Perkins (board member John Doerr) and Emergence Capital (board member Jason Green) and has raised $55M in capital.

Advisor

2012 - 2014

Advised on go-to-market strategy.

Advisor

2011 - 2014

Advised on go-to-market strategy.

Advisor

2009 - 2013

Advised on go-to-market strategy.

Founding CEO

2010 - 2013

Badgeville, The Behavior Platform, is the gold standard for gamification. We help business leaders measure and influence behavior in both customer- and employee-facing user experiences. Company grew to over 100 employees and 300 customers prior to being acquired by publicly traded CallidusCloud (which itself was acquired in 2018). Badgeville's customer list included Deloitte, EMC, Oracle, Dell, AOL, Samsung, NBC, The Active Network, Recyclebank and Universal Music. Investors in Badgeville included InterWest Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, El Dorado Ventures, and Trinity Ventures. Badgeville was featured in over 300 major media publications and outlets including features in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, SF Chronicle, Economist, Time, Bloomberg Businessweek, Entrepreneur, CFO, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, CNN, and MSNBC.

VP, Sales

2006 - 2009

Enterprise social software for collaboration. Responsible for company-wide revenue generation efforts, along with building and managing the global sales organization.