Tyler Richards

General Partner

2022 - Current

Early stage venture capital focused on pre-seed investment for great teams with validated business models.

Co Founder

2015

Startup Ignition is a 13-week entrepreneurship startup bootcamp, including actual implementation of learned tools and skills, that prepares entrepreneurs, founders, and teams to properly launch a company and take the right steps towards mitigating risk and increasing success. We enable our students by removing the fluff from a traditional 4-year degree, or other out-dated programs, and delivering an intense and impactful results-driven curriculum.

Managing Partner

2017 - 2022

CEO

2019 - 2022

Troopt is a premium-designed, flexible, feature-rich, and user-friendly platform to help teams and groups of all kinds to superiorly manage, achieve, share, organize, and communicate. Trusted by SMBs, franchises, businesses, departments, startups, troops, school bands, chambers, HOAs, military groups, dance studios, associations, recreation centers, clubs, & more, all over the US.

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

2021 - 2022

As Dirty Dough's Chief Marketing Officer, I run marketing across both the consumer and franchise businesses. Includes brand partnerships, brand strategy, consumer research, integrated media and brand marketing operations.

Advisory Board Member

2018 - 2020

Founder / Executive Advisor

2018 - 2019

Advising the DevMountain team on strategic business, marketing, growth, and educational decisions, working with campuses around the country and stakeholders to ensure the mission of bringing accessible and impactful education to thousands of students. As of Summer 2018, DevMountain has five campus locations in Salt Lake City, Utah, Provo, Utah, Dallas, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. In April 2016, the software engineering school, DevMountain was acquired by Capella Education Company.

Founder / VP Marketing & Admissions

2013 - 2018

DevMountain is a private coding bootcamp school that offers in-person and online courses ranging from 6 to 26 weeks in a variety of subjects including web development, mobile programming, user experience design, software quality assurance, and salesforce development. The school was founded in Provo, Utah by Cahlan Sharp, Tyler Richards, and Colt Henrie in 2013. DevMountain provides free housing to its full-time students for the length of the program to help them accommodate long hours of work. As of Summer 2018, DevMountain has five campus locations in Salt Lake City, Utah, Provo, Utah, Dallas, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. In April 2016, the software engineering school, DevMountain was acquired by Capella Education Company.

Co-Founder, CMO

2018 - 2018

The cloud will be displaced by the fog as the future home of data integration and analytics computing. The global Difuon Fog is the only decentralized federated ephemeral edge computing platform and marketplace that will meet the upcoming demands by connecting buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of computing power and associated applications. Learn more at Difuon.com.

Co Founder

2015 - 2018

To help outcome-based Skills Training organizations around the world to maximize their potential by establishing best practices, standards, and increase accountability.

Education and Technology Committees

2015 - 2018

EDUCATION COMMITTEE This committee works to improve education in the valley at all levels, implementing Chamber programs for education and facilitating a strong relationship between education and business. Responsibilities-STEM initiatives, Career Pathway, Prosperity 2020 and Young Entrepreneurs Academy TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE This committee provides opportunities for building business relationships, continuing education and community engagement for technology professionals. Responsibilities-Tech conferences, Tech engagement