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COVID-19: Retail Impacts
Talks about Supply Chain, Covid-19 and Retail Technology
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Ripley Carroll
Principal at Telescope Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Ripley Carroll is currently a Principal at Telescope Partners in San Francisco, California. With a background in start-ups and venture capital, Ripley has made significant investments in companies like Boulder Care, Hello Heart, and Dataiku, specializing in sectors such as GovTech, SaaS, and Digital Health.
Work Experience
Principal
2024 - Current
We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building B2B technology companies. At Telescope, every investment matters. We believe that building companies that change markets takes time, focus, and unwavering partnership. Our job is to offer relevant advice and bespoke support to each of the founders we partner with, helping them navigate the journey with insight, experience, and empathy.
Telescope Partners is an active growth equity firm partnering with best in class entrepreneurs across the technology landscape.
Venture Partner
2016
Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build, from seed to scale
Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build.
Principal
2017 - 2024
Stripes is a growth equity firm that partners with the teams behind emerging SaaS, Healthcare, and Consumer companies globally. Some of the companies I worked with include: -Monday.com (Series C, 2018, NAS: MNDY) -FullStory (Series C, 2019) -BacklotCars (Series B, 2019 - acquired by Openlane NYSE: KAR) -Dataiku (Series D, 2020) -CarOnSale (Series B, 2021) -Connecteam (Series C, 2021) -Spiff (Series B, 2021 - acquired by Salesforce.com NYSE: CRM) -Balto (Series B, 2021) -Fabric (Series B, 2021) -Emotive (Series B, 2021) -Equip Health (Series B, 2021) -Hello Heart (Series D, 2022) -Replicant (Series B, 2022) -BoulderCare (Series C, 2024) I joined when the firm primarily focused on consumer and helped build up the B2B Technology (software, B2B marketplaces) and Healthcare focus areas over the years across the US, Europe, and Israel.
Stripes is a growth equity firm that invests in software and consumer businesses.
Cofounder
2016 - 2017
Healthcare technology company revolutionizing internal hospital communications through role and task-based messaging.
President
2013 - 2017
The Virginia Venture Fund is one of the first student-run venture capital groups in the country.
Business Development
2014 - 2015
(Acquired by Jive) Speek provides a simple and smarter way to do conference calls. Teams can have unlimited conference calling that comes with call controls that allow you to see who’s joined, see who’s talking, share files, share their screen, record calls, add/remove/mute participants, and more. Participants can join by having us call them, dial-in and PIN, VoIP in the browser, or our mobile apps. Speek is a venture-backed company that has been named one of Wall Street Journal's "Top 20 Startups of the Year in 2013", Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Most Brilliant Companies", and PCMag's "Top 100 Websites".
Speek is a mobile app that offers conferences call services.
Raised $7,950,000.00 from CNF Investments, LLC, Middle Bridge Partners, Princeton Taylor, Michael Chasen, Timothy Chi, Sonny Ganguly, Middleland Capital, 500 Global and Zeki Mokhtarzada.