Stephen Culp
Founder and CEO at S Ventures
Stephen Culp
Founder and CEO at S Ventures
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, Executive Chairman
2021 - Current
Delegator is a human centric, data-driven agency focusing on digital advertising, creative, conversion, analytics, and technical due diligence services for leading companies. Founded by successful entrepreneurs and businesspeople, Delegator's mission is to help growing companies focus on their core mission, and delegate the rest.
Co-Founder / CEO
2009 - 2021
Delegator is a human centric, data-driven agency focusing on digital advertising, creative, conversion, analytics, and technical due diligence services for leading companies. Founded by successful entrepreneurs and businesspeople, Delegator's mission is to help growing companies focus on their core mission, and delegate the rest.
Co-Founder and CEO
2015
Easy stage high growth investments including Coinbase, DoorDash, Gitlab, others.
Co-Founder
2011
Pro Diligence provides technical due diligence on the stability, soundness, security and scalability of potential projects, investments, partnerships, companies, or acquisitions. We don't like surprises. While financial and legal due diligence are important, they are not enough. ProDiligence has maximized opportunity and minimized risk for more than $450M in transactions.
General Partner
2011
The Chattanooga Renaissance Fund is a for-profit angel capital fund started and funded by business leaders. Its mission is to enable local entrepreneurs through capital investment and business mentorship and pave the way for a new generation of local entrepreneurs.
Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Advisory Committee
2024
Board of Directors
2023
Mentor and Investor
2016
Dynamo is a mentor-driven innovation program, specializing in logistics, transportation, and supply
Strategic Advisor, Investor, Assistant (to the) General Manager
2005
Co-Founder
2007
Catalyzing cystic fibrosis awareness and research to make CF fully treatable this decade. www.cfsmackdown.com (note: this really started in 2012, but linkedin can't get it right in listings)
Founder / Director
2008 - 2023
Founded in a Palo Alto garage in the late 1990s, Smart Furniture pioneered online "Design on Demand" and mass customization through the web's first e-commerce-enabled, drag & drop design tools, and patented smart furniture. The result helped make "smart" simple, and brought design to a whole new market - everyone. Smart Furniture offered a design and shopping experience that was simpler, faster, and more personalized than anywhere else, and in doing so, led the furniture industry into a new era.
President & CEO, Founder
1998 - 2008
See above.
Education
JD
1994 - 1997
Young American Leaders Program
2016 - 2016
Exec Education Program
2007 - 2007
BA
1987 - 1991
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1983 - 1987