Ripley Carroll
Principal at Telescope Partners
Ripley Carroll
Principal at Telescope Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2024 - Current
We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building B2B technology companies. At Telescope, every investment matters. We believe that building companies that change markets takes time, focus, and unwavering partnership. Our job is to offer relevant advice and bespoke support to each of the founders we partner with, helping them navigate the journey with insight, experience, and empathy.
Venture Partner
2016
Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build, from seed to scale
Principal
2017 - 2024
Stripes is a growth equity firm that partners with the teams behind emerging SaaS, Healthcare, and Consumer companies globally to help them achieve their goals. I joined as an analyst when the firm primarily focused on consumer and helped build up the B2B Technology and Healthcare focus areas over the years working with many fantastic entrepreneurs across the US, Israel, and Europe. Some of the companies I worked with include: -Monday.com (Series C, 2018, NAS: MNDY) -FullStory (Series C, 2019) -BacklotCars (Series B, 2019 - acquired by Openlane NYSE: KAR) -Dataiku (Series D, 2020) -CarOnSale (Series B, 2021) -Connecteam (Series C, 2021) -Spiff (Series B, 2021 - acquired by Salesforce.com NYSE: CRM) -Balto (Series B, 2021) -Fabric (Series B, 2021) -Emotive (Series B, 2021) -Equip Health (Series B, 2021) -Hello Heart (Series D, 2022) -Replicant (Series B, 2022) -BoulderCare (Series C, 2024)
Cofounder
2016 - 2017
Healthcare technology company revolutionizing internal hospital communications through role and task-based messaging.
President
2013 - 2017
President • Established partnerships throughout the entrepreneurial community • Helped organize student projects with top-tier VC firms including Stripes Group, Lux Capital, Anthos Capital, and Updata Partners, Vocap Partners, and Grotech Ventures among others • Planned and executed first ever inter-university VC competition at UVa attended by top schools from around the country • Founded VAccelerate, a student run accelerator program that connects founders at UVA with mentorship, guidance, and resources (monetary and non-monetary) • Helped recruit and onboard the entire executive board • Built VVF into one of the top CIOs at UVa Vice President of Investments • Only freshman ever appointed to the Executive Board • Competed in VCIC and other venture capital competitions • Performed due diligence on local companies and interviewed founders • Spearheaded the first undergraduate due diligence competition at UVa Analyst • Performed market research for portfolio companies • Assisted in valuating investment targets
Business Development
2014 - 2015
(Acquired by Jive) Speek provides a simple and smarter way to do conference calls. Teams can have unlimited conference calling that comes with call controls that allow you to see who’s joined, see who’s talking, share files, share their screen, record calls, add/remove/mute participants, and more. Participants can join by having us call them, dial-in and PIN, VoIP in the browser, or our mobile apps. Speek is a venture-backed company that has been named one of Wall Street Journal's "Top 20 Startups of the Year in 2013", Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Most Brilliant Companies", and PCMag's "Top 100 Websites". As part of my role at Speek I: • Worked closely with the COO (Konrad Waliszewski) and CEO (John Bracken) to negotiate business development deals • Researched and initiated contact with potential acquirers, one of which eventually acquired the company (Jive) • Sourced and evaluated partnership opportunities • Created and maintained a model to project future growth for the executive team • Helped source and work deal with a UK conferencing company expected to gross 30-50k/mo revenue and cut European conferencing fees • Collaborated with the VP of Sales to develop innovative lead-generation techniques • Assisted in developing an outbound sales strategy that significantly increased sales revenue.