Ramsey Chapin
Founder of Effortless
Miami, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2017 - Current
Jars Capital partners with founders to build and scale software companies with a unique distribution advantage. We build companies primarily within our multifamily platform, but support others with a focus on capital efficiency.
JARS Capital invests in and operates early stage software companies.
Co-founder, CEO Effortless Ads
2021
Incubated within Jars Capital. When marketing your property, make it Effortless. The Effortless AI algorithm in the background is designed to maximize traffic on minimal spend.
Founder, CEO
2016 - 2021
Incubated within Jars Capital. Engage in 1:1 conversations with your residents and prospects from any device at any time, anywhere.
Key Texting helps to connect prospects, residents through communication, solutions and other services.
Early Stage Startups
2013 - 2016
Worked with companies at the earliest stages, including Fitbit, Ring, Peloton, Hashicorp, Blue Bottle Coffee, Duo Security, Evident.io, Tray.io, and others.
True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Marketing Analyst
2012 - 2013
-First marketing intern. Reported directly to Co-founder/CMO Gretchen Curtis. -1 of 4 that created launch plan, messaging, and oversaw implementation of launch plan for new product Airframe. Also created financial modeling for Airframe for use by CEO Joshua McKenty. -1 of 6 employees responsible for interfacing with customers every day of 30,000 attendee VMWorld 2012. Piston Cloud won 1st place for private cloud computing technologies. -1 of 2 in charge of lead generation, lead nurturing, and lead traffic for all of Piston Cloud’s products via Google Adwords and Marketo. Responsible for growth of lead traffic by 552% and lead conversions by 360%.
Piston is the OpenStack® orchestration company.
Raised $28,830,989.00 from Cisco, DCVC, Divergent Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, True Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, True Ventures and Cisco.
TEC Fellow - Class of 2012
2012 - 2012
1 of 11 chosen for immersion program by True Ventures, an early-stage $600 million venture capital firm. -Conceived and presented new product ideas for Piston Cloud, including one implemented soon after presentation, to 20 CEO’s of True-backed companies, and True partners. -Analyzed and presented key competitive strategy document on Hadoop to True partners.
True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Community Manager and QA Intern
2011 - 2011
Third intern hired in 8-person VC-backed startup that grew from 1 to 20 million users during 2011 to 2012. Acquired by LinkedIn for $90 million in April 2013. -Personally conducted, and analyzed Pulse’s first ever focus groups (four in total). -Developed and implemented weekly feedback log that turned 1750 weekly customer feedback messages into actionable list of 40 popular product improvements. 20% resulted in future app features. Response time decreased by 50%. 3 critical software fixes were made. -Worked directly with head of biz dev to grow Twitter base from 50,000 to 110,000 in 8 months. -Aggregated bugs (often 10 or more) discovered in stress tests into an actionable pre-release list.
Pulse is a news reading app that provides users with news from multiple RSS feeds on a single interface.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Lerer Hippeau, New Enterprise Associates, Greycroft and SV Angel.
Education
BA
2009 - 2013