Rob Chaplinsky
Investor | Venture Capital | Entrepreneur
Incline Village, Nevada
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2018 - Current
Link Ventures invests in early stage business that leverage AI, ML and data science.
Early stage VC investing in startups leveraging data science, machine learning and AI technologies.
Board Member, Investor
2020
Board Member, Investor
2020 - 2024
Trust & Will is the leading digital estate planning and probate platform.
Raised $48,000,000.00 from Sahin Boydas, AARP and Halogen Ventures.
Seed Investor
2017 - 2021
Loop is a return portal that automated all the returns and refunds of products.
Raised $125,450,000.00 from Harmony Partners, Renegade Partners, Peterson Ventures, Ridge Ventures, CRV, Lerer Hippeau, Shopify and FirstMark.
Investor
2017 - 2020
Managing Director
2005 - 2018
Bridgescale is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in a broad sprectrum of information technology sectors. The key principals bring decades of investment and operations expertise, a vast network of Silicon Valley relationships, and a deep understanding of the high-growth technology sector. As Co-founder and Managing Director. Notable recent exits include the IPO of SaaS security company Proofpoint, the IPO of SaaS work force compensation company Xactly, the sale of IOT company Jasper to Cisco, the sale of performance HRM SaaS company Rypple to Salesforce.com, and the sale of SaaS workforce management Dayforce to Ceridian.
Investor, Advisor
2010 - 2017
Leading SaaS performance compensation software company serving thousands of customers.
Investor | Advisor | Startup Coach | Mentor | Board member | Chairman
2012 - 2016
Axonify is the world’s first Employee Knowledge Platform. Pushing beyond the boundaries of corporate eLearning, it combines an award-winning approach to micro-learning, with innovative knowledge-on-demand capabilities to ensure employees do the right things right. The entire experience is gamified, driving high levels of participation and can measure employee knowledge growth, tying it directly to behavior that powers business performance. Axonify has several fortune 100 customers is growing over 100% per year. I was the first investor in the company when it was called 17muscles and helped the management team scale the company into one of Waterloo's biggest software success stories. I resigned from the board after a private equity firm bought out my position in the company.
Investor | startup coach | advisor | mentor | stategic advisor | Board Member
2009 - 2016
BlueCat is a leading network security technology provider that enables customers to build and manage their most complex network infrastructure to meet the rapid pace of change of their business. The company is a global leader in their segment and customers include a good portion of the Fortune 100 enterprises. I invested in this company in 2009 and resigned from the board after i sold my equity position in the company to a private equity firm.
Advisor
2014 - 2016
Biolinq is pioneering computational biology technology and micro on-body biosensors for consumer and medical applications.
Biolinq develops a wearable biosensor platform that is capable of measuring blood level information.
Raised $254,251,237.00 from Niterra Ventures, Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings, Features Capital, Aphelion Capital, Alpha Wave Ventures, Global Health Investment Corporation, Senvest Management, AXA Investment Managers, Pegasus Tech Ventures and RiverVest.