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Travis Kirk Lowry

General Partner at Vinyl Capital

Bozeman, Montana

Overview 

Travis Kirk Lowry is the General Partner at Vinyl Capital, with a background in startups and entrepreneurship. He has held leadership roles in companies like Freebird and Reserve, with a strong focus on growth and business development. Lowry's career highlights include serving as Chief Customer Officer at Freebird, which was later acquired by Capital One, and founding Soon Spoon, which was acquired by Reserve. His current role as General Partner at Vinyl Capital reflects his expertise in investing and supporting startups in various sectors.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2023 - Current

    Investing in the future of how people buy stuff.

  • Operating Partner

    2021 - 2023

  • Investor

    2020

  • Executive Member

    2018

Pavilion is a private membership for high-growth leaders to achieve their professional potential.

Raised $25,000,000.00 from Elephant.

  • Director, Product

    2020 - 2021

    Freebird was acquired by Capital One...

Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.

Raised $954,000,000.00 from Berkshire Hathaway.

  • Chief Customer Officer (acquired by Capital One)

    2020 - 2020

    Voice of the Customer & Traveler. Lead Customer Success + Business Intelligence + Traveler Support teams. Brought some hospitality to the unfriendly skies. Acquired by Capital One in 2020.

  • VP Growth -> VP Biz Dev -> VP Client Services -> VP Experience

    2016 - 2019

    First 3 team members, fought whatever fire needed fighting.

Freebird empowers travelers to book a new ticket – on any airline at no additional cost – in the event of a flight cancellation or delay.

Raised $16,500,000.00 from American Express Ventures, Louis Beryl, Citi Ventures, PAR Capital Management, Accomplice, General Catalyst, Rough Draft Ventures, Gaingels, Green D Ventures and Castor Ventures.

  • Expansion (acquired by Resy / American Express)

    2015 - 2016

    Launched new markets and fixed failing ones.

  • Restaurant Ops

    2014 - 2015

    Professional cool guy. Tattoos to prove it. Spent 12 hours a day in NYC's best restaurants.

Reserve is a restaurant technology company focused on making every part of the dining experience better, for both restaurants and diners.

Raised $30,015,455.00 from Human Ventures, First Round Capital and Expa.

  • Co-Founder + CEO (acquired by Reserve)

    2013 - 2014

    Day of reservations at restaurants you can't get into; acquired by Reserve.

SoonSpoon Provide of a web platform for last minute restaurant reservations.

  • Co-Founder + CEO

    2011 - 2013

    Tried to do well while doing good. We did alright.

  • Local Editor

    2010 - 2011

    Wrote a lot of local news.

Patch is a community-specific news, information and engagement platform that covers individual towns and communities.

  • Public Relations, Palestinian Camps, Damascus Syria

    2011 - 2011

    Tried to help a pretty bad situation.

Free access to all of the trade data available in the UN Comtrade database. The UN Comtrade database contains more than 3.1 billion trade

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