Startup Grind Eastside Hosts Kirby Winfield (Angel Investor)
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Startup Grind Eastside Hosts Kirby Winfield (Angel Investor)
Kirby Winfield is a seasoned startup operator and angel investor. Early in his career, Kirby was a founding team member and operating executive at back-to-back tech IPOs, with Go2Net (GNET) and Marchex (MCHX).
He is also a two-time venture capital-backed CEO, with AdXpose (DFJ, Ignition) acquired by comScore (SCOR), and most recently Dwellable (Maveron, VersionOne) acquired by HomeAway (AWAY).
As an angel investor, Kirby served as a Board Director of real estate startup Sharper Agent (sold to LEDR/Z), and has invested in and advised dozens of seed stage startups in travel, ad tech, and SaaS. He current serves as a Board Director for technology-enabled marketing company Spectrio, on behalf of the Riverside Company, a global private equity firm.
He is an active Techstars mentor, and a passionate Board Member (and Board Chair-Elect) at Special Olympics of Washington, as well as Board Member at the Haring Center Capital Campaign, and Board Advisor at the Friendship Circle of Washington. In his free time, Kirby coaches youth soccer and baseball, and enjoys running, tennis, and traveling with his wife, son and daughter.
Agenda
5:30 pm Networking with Great Humans
6:30 pm Fireside Chat Starts
7:30 pm Fireside Chat Ends
Speaker
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Mike Grabham, Seattle Eastside Co-Director
Michael is optimistic, curious and a problem solver. He is a product fit guy that focuses on customers and revenue. He was one of the first Startup Grind directors outside of Silicon Valley and was voted Director of the Year in 2016. He loves starting companies/teams and enjoys the collaboration with smart people to figure out how to create value for a customer. He is a five time founder, working on his sixth and has raised $3.5MM from angel investors. He has sold two companies, closed a company and failed once. He is the inventor of the Package Guard, (http://www.thepackageguard.com) a device that protects your home deliveries from thieves. He also has a monthly TV show for KING5 called Start IT Seattle (http://www.startitseattle.com). Let him know if you would like to touch base.
You can visit his blog at michaelgrabham.com (http://www.michaelgrabham.com) or follow him on twitter @grabmike (http://www.twitter.com/grabmike)
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Startup Grind Eastside Hosts Kirby Winfield (Angel Investor)