Travis Kirk Lowry
General Partner at Vinyl Capital
Bozeman, Montana
Overview
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
Education
BA
2006 - 2010
Bachelor's degree
2008 - 2009