United States
Specialties: Technology private growth capital investing
Co-Founder of Riverwood Capital, a technology oriented middle market growth equity firm. Riverwood Capital invests in high-growth companies in the technology and technology-enabled industries. Founded in 2008 with $5.9 billion AUM, Riverwood offers a unique combination of operational, strategic, technology, and financial insight to portfolio companies that typically need growth capital and expertise to scale on a global basis. The firm seeks to invest in established businesses with a proven technology and business model, and the proper fit in terms of culture and values. Riverwood has offices in Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; São Paulo, Brazil; and Miami, FL.
Quicklizard is a leading AI-powered dynamic pricing technology for retailers and brands. It allows retailers to manage their pricing strategies fully on a single platform that provides the tools, insights, and analytics required for business expansion and profit growth. We offer a multi-channel, 100% open platform that enhances businesses across a diverse range of retail industries, including consumer electronics, beauty, home & furniture, sporting goods, apparel, pet supplies and groceries. Our platform is deployed in over 40 markets, integrating both online and offline channels and producing hundreds of millions of price recommendations each month. Website http://www.quicklizard.com/
With more than 22 years of experience, Casago has become internationally recognized as a leader within the vacation and short-term rental industry in 60+ destinations across the U.S., Mexico, and the Caribbean with over 5,000 properties under management. Casago’s franchise model is re-imagining the future of short term rentals for local operators, by providing them with the tools to grow their business with the support, software, systems and purchasing power of a national organization. By joining our franchise model, you have the freedom to run your own business within a community of like-minded professionals, while leveraging the economies of scale and buying power to increase profitability and reduce your operating costs. Our core team has owned, developed, opened and managed thousands of vacation rentals, including homes, villas, mega-estate properties and condo resorts. We currently employ 350 people who provide many specialty services that are unique to our company. Our executives know what owners and travelers want and need. Our team knows the short term rental and resort business inside-out. Steve Schwab, founder & CEO, has over 22 years of experience serving in the vacation rental industry. His vision has created a blueprint for world-class customer service. His work has been exemplified in exclusive resorts and estates in 13 cities in two countries. Steve is also a pioneer in performance driven industry software. Steve was co-founder of Streamline Vacation Rental Software, which has allowed him to create many industry-first technologies that continue to change the market. He is a former Army Ranger, pilot, intelligence analyst, software developer and author. His creative work has been featured in numerous publications and television appearances.
We started this journey with one thing in mind, to build a software solution that would make safety, compliance and site operations so easy, it would change the way companies think and manage their sites. We have real-world construction and safety experience in our ranks, we value the industry, and we know that solid relationships are the foundation of success. Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2015, HammerTech has served over 20,000 projects and is now used by over 500+ leading construction companies worldwide. We're on a mission to consolidate safety, compliance and site operations into one platform to provide everyone with greater visibility, make trade partner management easy and transform safety in construction.
Gladly is a radically personal customer service platform and the only one built around people, not cases or tickets. We turn customer service agents into heroes by giving them one lifelong, channel-independent conversation with all the context needed to build lasting connection and loyalty.