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About
Conviction is profitable.
Idols are mentors.
Teams become family.
Ideas change the world.
Boost
Boost VC is a startup accelerator that invests in 20-30 companies twice a year for three months. We provide housing and office space for each company located in the heart of Silicon Valley. We put talent, passion and drive alongside seasoned entrepreneurs and investors to build world changing companies.
By 2017 Boost will accelerate 100 Bitcoin companies out of the 250 total expected companies. We’re excited to push forward the future of technology, we are interested in everything from Enterprise to Rockets, 3D Printing to Bitcoin…and anything that gets us closer to building an Iron Man suit.
Basics
- 3 months of programming in an immersive, entrepreneurial environment
- Committed and dedicated mentors
- Scheduled time with industry influencers and investors
- Unique team building exercises
- General legal counsel
- Seed investment for a small percentage of the company
Benefits
- Access to proprietary Boost Network... for life
- Housing and office space in the heart of Silicon Valley
- Shortest commute of all time
- Dedicated team that lives and works with you
- 20 companies to work alongside and encourage your success
- Weekly all-team meetings + Family Dinner
- Opportunity to find a solution to the problem you were set on this earth to solve
Mentors
Dan Held
Lead Product Manager, Blockchain
Zavain Dar
Investment Team, Innovation Endeavors
Jeff Wasson
Angel Investor, Sand Hill Angels
Sean Percival
Venture Partner, 500 Startups
Marlon Nichols
Director, Intel Capital
Sugath Warnakulasuriya
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor
Tim Draper
Founder, DFJ
Alon Goren
CEO, InvestedIn
Jude Gomila
Founder & President, Heyzap
Sean Jacobsohn
Venture Partner, Emergence Capital
Ben Davenport
Co-Founder & CEO, Beluga
(acquired by Facebook)
Bill Draper
Founder, DRK Foundation
Max Hoat
Founder & CEO, Livestream
Frank Creer
Founder, Zone Ventures
Bill Barhydt
Founder & CEO, Boom Financial
Topher Conway
Partner, SV Angel
Annie Pearl
Sr. Enterprise Product Manager, Box
Josh Buckley
Founder & CEO, MinoMonsters
Allan Young
Founder, Runway
Steven Roussey
Secret Weapon, Weebly
Hrach Simonian
Principal, Canaan Partners
Justin Miller
Founder & President, Notehall
(acquired by Chegg)
Collin West
Associate, Correlation Ventures
Ankit Agarwal
Founder & CEO, Micello
Andrew Flachner
Founder & CEO, RealScout
Kurt Thams
CTO, PayNearMe.com
Erin Gray
Associate, Tenaya Capital
Kevin Twohy
Principal, Novum Design
AJ Forsythe
CEO, iCracked Intergalactic
Michael Parikh
CTO, RealScout
Santi Subotovsky
Principal, Emergence Capital
John Fogelsong
Principal, Glynn Capital Management
Past Speakers
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Marc Andreessen
Andreessen-Horowitz -
Logan Green
Lyft -
Brian Armstrong
Coinbase -
Sam Schillace
Box -
Bill Draper
DRK Foundation -
James Beshara
Tilt
Team
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Adam Draper
Founder & Chief
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Brayton Williams
Founder, Finance and Ops
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Ross McKelvie
Lead Engineer
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Krista Martin
EA & Social Guru
Adam Draper is the founder of Boost VC. He is a fourth generation venture capitalist, and Super Smash player extraordinaire. Adam co-founded a startup called Xpert Financial where he learned all of his startup lessons. He now takes those lessons and guides startups with his “Be Awesome” philosophy of building. Before starting Boost, Adam angel invested in 20 companies including Coinbase, Plangrid and Practice Fusion. His favorite movie is Notting Hill and his favorite pizza joint is Round Table. He also makes pickles.
Brayton Williams is an entrepreneur who went from working at too-big-to-fail Morgan Stanley Smith Barney to startup Xpert Financial. He also leads the recruiting initiative so spends many days cold emailing potential Boost founders in search of crazy ideas. He was the first member of Boost to buy a bitcoin and unfortunately also the first to sell. When not telling people to stop spending money, Brayton attempts to get coffee shops to spell his name correctly.
Ross McKelvie is an engineering entrepreneur with a deep background in web applications, beginning at the age of twelve and continuing through the Computer Science program at Cal Poly, where he founded GRAPPPLE (acquired by Whodini) before joining Boost. When he's not leading product development at Boost, Ross' interests include consuming burritos and competitive paintball. He made his first dollar selling game mods and network tools to give Halo 2 players an unfair advantage in competitive multiplayer. He has secretly launched a viral startup in his past, but we won't tell you which.
Krista Martin keeps spirits and caffeine levels high at Boost VC. Her background includes sales, marketing, non-profits, and healthcare. She spends most her time trying to keep Adam on schedule, running all social media for Boost, herding tribesmen, or planning one of our awesome events. When not doing the impossible, Krista can usually be found hanging with her super cute Lab, at a nearby happy hour, marathoning sessions of "Friends," or laughing at her own jokes.
Portfolio Industries
3D Printing
Bitcoin
Consumer Goods
Consumer Internet
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Financial Tech
Hardware
Mobile
Other