Virgil Andry
Founder of CoLaborator
Virgil Andry
Founder of CoLaborator
Chicago, Illinois
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2022 - Current
Virgil Andry is the Founder & CEO of CoLaborator, Inc., which is more than just another company, but more like an ecosystem ("The CoLaborator"). CoLaborator, Inc. & its consortium network's mission is to collaborate with and provide resources to small to medium sized businesses to enable them to compete with larger industry giants. Are you an owner of a Manufacturing, Energy, Distribution, Tech or Other revenue generating business and looking to be a part of something larger than what you have been able to accomplish so far? Are you looking to sell that business or a substantial stake in it? If so, contact us! We are in search for acquisitions and to participate in projects in the $1M - $250M range. or Are you an Investor, Asset Manager, Private Lender or other Financial Manager with Assets Under Management of between $5M - $500B and looking to put the assets to work? CoLaborator, Inc. is looking for Passive Joint Venture Partners for the business acquisition opportunities that we come across. Connect and contact me now! Or you can request membership to The CoLaborator's Service Providers & Angel Investors Linkedin group at: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9127490/ To learn more about "The CoLaborator" visit: https://thecolaborator.com/
Member & Entrepreneur in Residence
2021 - 2023
1871 is Chicago’s technology hub and the #1 ranked private business incubator in the world. It exists to inspire, equip, and support early stage, growth stage and corporate innovators in building extraordinary businesses. 1871 is home to ~450 technology startups, ~400+ growth stage companies, and ~1,500 members, and is supported by an entire ecosystem focused on accelerating their growth and creating jobs in the Chicagoland area. The member experience includes virtual and in person access to workshops, events, mentorship, and more. The nonprofit organization has 350 mentors available to its members, alongside access to more than 100 partner corporations, universities, education programs, accelerators, venture funds and others. Since its inception in 2012, more than 650 alumni companies are currently still active, have created over 11,000 jobs, and have raised more than $1.65 billion in follow-on capital.
President
2014 - 2022
Founder and President of Andry & Associates, Inc. Micro Angel/PE/VC Deal Maker & Source for businesses seeking growth. He is currently looking to partner with entrepreneurs with innovative ideas and a lack of resources to launch their products with the highest likelihood of success. Virgil is also looking to collaborate with Angel Investors, Product Managers, Marketing, Technology, Business and other Finance professionals to add to the list of associates for Project 1 Billion's Virtual Consortium Group at https://project1billion.net/. Project 1 Billion is a virtual project that consists of Consortium Group Associates and Portfolio Partners. The consortium group is a loose group of associates who seek to use their resources to assist in the growth of others businesses while simultaneously growing their own portfolio. The goal for the project is to partner with early stage companies to assist in the building of $20M+ companies for a $1 billion portfolio valuation. Incubators, Growth Accelerators, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Angel Investors and other Service Providers assist in the growth of the project's Portfolio Partners. If you fit any of the above criteria or if you are interested in working with us in some way, join our Linkedin group the "Angel Aquarium: Project 1 Billion" at: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12110352/
The TOP Person - An International Business, Politics, and NGO Magazine and a Global Charity with HUB
The TOP Person Ambassador
2021 - 2022
The TOP Person is a global charity launched in January 2020 with a mission to empower people, other charities and organizations around the globe who want to further themselves free of charge. Our goal is to empower one million people annually - please help us to spread the good! The TOP Person is fully funded, so we are neither asking for donations. Our method of helping is to multiply the social media visibility of one's content and to increase one's influence. Another route to help is our free ambassador program. Ambassadors will learn free of charge how to build the skills and tools they need to become influencers and social media stars of their own lives, so that they can easily reach the decision makers important to them. Our free The TOP Person Ambassador program benefits include: 1) Receive The TOP Person Ambassador status 2) Multiply your LinkedIn endorsing powers up to 611 times 3) Receive peer support boost to social media posts 4) Receive The TOP Person credibility for social media posts 5) Have hundreds of decision makers become aware of you daily 6) Have your LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter profile boosted 7) Right to post any of our very popular articles 8) Be part of the global The TOP Person magazine 9) Easy route to become an influencer Currently, there are 2355 The TOP Person Ambassadors from 121 countries with a total of 15.5+ million followers, so peer support is very strong - the latest most popular post by an ambassador received 13+ million views and the posts of another ambassador have been trending in LinkedIn 12 times in a row, and our ambassadors engage average 138,000 times a day and over 4.1 million times in a single month to support their peers. Our magazines receive over 2 million business readers monthly and our authors come from The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider and Forbes magazines as well as from LinkedIn Influencers, TopVoices and TED. https://www.thetopperson.com/
Representative
2021 - 2022
As a United States Representative of FasterCapital, my mission is to find Startup Founders, Partners and Investors. We are a global group of over 1000 Regional Partners & Reps, 168 Resource Partners, 1033 Mentors and 915 Entrepreneurs who have supported 447 Startups with over $48M. We invest $20k to $2M in idea stage to growth stage companies all over the world. If you are looking for a technical co-founder, a tech partner or a technical developer team for your startup then search no more! FasterCapital will become the technical co-founder and our internal team will be responsible for building the whole product from A to Z. We help non-technical entrepreneurs build a successful technical start-up, thereby allowing the start-ups founders to focus on other key areas, such as refining their products/services, focusing on business development, sales and other important non-technical aspects. We also help technical entrepreneurs who don’t have the right team to build the startup. We provide 50% of the money needed in technical development per equity. So you will find yourself the technical co-founder and secure half of the money you need. Of course acting as a co-founder is not limited only to development but rather to improving on the startup, its market, products and how we can improve the chances of the startup to be successful and generate income.
Education
Project Management 35 Hour Certificate
2012 - 2013
None
2009 - 2010
Bachelors
1999 - 2009