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Sean Kelly

Managing Partner at The Family Fund & Founder Community

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founding Managing Partner

    2021 - Current

    The Family Fund & Founder Community is an early-stage venture capital firm that pairs its expansive network of over 60 active CEOs, founders and industry leaders with emerging, high-growth consumer brands and technology companies that are solving meaningful problems for today’s wellness conscious consumer. Learn more about us at FamilyFund.vc.

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2019

    We provide revenue acceleration services to B2B companies (primarily in the software and financial services verticals) looking to significantly scale their revenues at a fraction of their current cost.

  • Chairman

    2022 - 2023

  • CEO & Co-Founder

    2020 - 2022

    Caroo is a software-enabled platform designed to help people experience deep connection at work through recognition. Our platform uncovers deep behavioral understanding of individual employee recognition needs, provides insight on when to recognize and makes it easy to send rewards employees actually want. All in one place. Caroo is woman and veteran founded, and partners with various charities including Feeding America. Since 2015, Caroo has donated over 20 million meals and counting to families in need.

  • CEO & Co-Founder

    2014 - 2020

    SnackNation was the leading tech-enabled snack delivery service that served the day's most innovative, best-tasting, and emerging CPG brands to high-value consumers at their most engaged moments. SnackNation existed to inspire more conscious food decisions. Founded in 2014, the company curated and delivered great tasting, better-for-you snacks to more than half a million people in 20K+ member offices nationwide – places like Microsoft, MailChimp, Soothe, and many more. SnackNation was committed to helping families facing hunger, and donated more than six million meals to Feeding America. SnackNation was named the 24th fastest-growing private company by Inc. Magazine and the third fastest growing company in LA county by the Los Angeles Business Journal. The company had offices in Los Angeles and Chicago.

  • CEO & Co-Founder

    2008 - 2016

    HUMAN (Helping Unite Mankind And Nutrition) was an award-winning and socially-responsible franchisor of automated retail businesses focused on increasing access to healthier foods and drinks by way of healthy vending machines, micro markets and snack delivery services. HUMAN has ranked on the following lists: * Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 15 Innovative Established Franchises," 2014 * #281 on Entrepreneur Magazine's "Franchise 500," 2014 * #1 in category, Entrepreneur Magazine's "Best of the Best," 2014 * #81 on Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top Homebased Franchise" list, 2014 * #12 on Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top New Franchises" list, 2014 * #51 on Entrepreneur Magazine's "Fastest-Growing Franchises" list, 2014 * #16 on Franchise Gator's "Fastest Growing Franchises" list, 2014 * #5 of all Inc. 500s on Twitter, 2014 * #168 on Inc Magazine's "Inc 500 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies," 2013 * #44 on Forbes America's Most Promising Companies list, 2013 * #7 on Los Angeles Business Journal's "Fastest-Growing Private Companies" list, 2013 * #7 on Entrepreneur Magazine "Top 30 Start Ups to Watch," 2013 * #37 on Forbes America's Most Promising Companies list, 2012 * Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 100 Brilliant Companies," 2012

  • President & Co-Founder

    2005 - 2008

    FitFuel.com was an eCommerce business selling healthy foods and nutritional supplements to customers across North America. Acquired in 2008.

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