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Daren Cotter

Tech Entrepreneur & Investor

St Paul, Minnesota

Overview 

Daren Cotter is a successful tech entrepreneur and investor based in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has founded and served as CEO of InboxDollars, and currently leads a personal mini family office as a tech investor, with notable investments in companies like Pear Commerce and Fulcrum. His career highlights include founding InboxDollars and investing in a range of successful startups across various sectors and funding stages.

Work Experience 

  • Tech Investor

    2021 - Current

    Investing in early stage Tech companies & VC Funds. Contact me: https://darencotter.com/contact-me/ Current investments: https://darencotter.com/portfolio/

  • Advisory Board

    2023

TicketRev helps sports teams increase their ticket sales and learn more about their fans.

Raised $1,600,000.00 from Soma Capital, MLB Advanced Media, Minnesota Twins, 500 Global, Techstars, Groove Capital, Daren Cotter, Soma Capital, 500 Global and Techstars.

  • Advisory Board

    2021

Pear simplifies retail marketing by connecting CPG advertisements directly with retailers.

Raised $10,100,000.00 from Stage 2 Capital, Dundee Venture Capital, Homegrown Capital, M25, Heartland Ventures and Daren Cotter.

  • Advisory Board

    2021

Omnia Fishing is an eCommerce store that allows anglers to find, buy, and organize their fishing gear.

Raised $8,250,147.00 from Great North Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Dundee Venture Capital, Bread and Butter Ventures, Founder Collective and Madison Valley Partners.

  • GM, InboxDollars

    2019 - 2021

    Prodege, LLC is the parent company of the web's leading consumer rewards platform and brands: Swagbucks, MyPoints, Upromise, CouponCause, and InboxDollars. As GM of InboxDollars, I lead post-acquisition team and technology integration efforts while serving as a member of the company's Leadership team.

Prodege is a cutting-edge marketing and consumer insights platform that leverages its global audience to power its business solutions.

Raised $60,000,000.00 from Great Hill Partners.

  • Founder & CEO

    2000 - 2021

    InboxDollars connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. Consumers earn cash rewards for their everyday web and mobile activities, like searching, shopping, taking surveys, playing games, watching videos, and more! Advertisers market to our audience of 2 million+ active members while only paying for the results that we deliver. I founded the company as a college Freshman in 2000. After graduating in 2005, I assembled a world class team and we bootstrapped the company to >$25 million annual revenues. We expanded internationally in 2012 with UK-based InboxPounds and in 2014 with Canada-based DailyRewards. We were featured in Inc. Magazine's Fastest Growing Private Companies list in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014. In May 2019, InboxDollars was acquired by leading consumer rewards platform Prodege, LLC.

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