Investments
My primary focus is Freehouse Capital Partners – a specialized real estate private equity firm that acquires and develops income-producing, institutional-quality industrial assets in hard-to-access markets throughout Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota.
Operating Companies
Where I spend most of my time, in order of time spent. Long-term growth companies and partnerships capitalized to grow steadily over long periods of time.
- Freehouse Partners – a specialized real estate private equity firm that acquires and develops income-producing, institutional-quality industrial assets in hard-to-access markets throughout Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota.
- Kollective - A social performance club with high-end health and wellness services including on-site medical. My team and I manage its real estate work, new market expansion, and early-stage investments.
- Apres Hotel – Whitefish, MT boutique hotel with a wood-fired Norwegian sauna situated on the Whitefish River.
- Johnsons Beach Russian River - Russian River waterfront hotel and glamping property walkable to downtown Guerneville, CA.
Funds
- VTF Capital ~85M AUM seed-stage venture fund focus on ecommerce and retail tech. Managing Partner alongside my other ex-Zappos general partners. We actively invested from 2011-2017. Though we are no longer investing in new companies, we still support our portfolio and founders.
- Trust Ventures - Venture partner. Trust Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on startups and provides knowledge and expertise in highly regulated, incumbent-heavy industries.
Large-scale systems.
Degree Insurance Co
Flagship Retail
Prefix
Local Bounti
Healthspan & lifespan.
BPN
Levels Health
Brio Systems
Zero Acre Farms
Promix Nutrition
Force of nature founders
CookDash
Scratch Kitchen
Ugly Drinks
Huron
Neuro ID
DIMO
Impact Investments
The Phoenix – A nationwide community of leaders and gyms that uses fitness to help break cycles of addiction.
Bonton Farms – An full-cycle urban farm in South Dallas that fights poverty and food insecurity, creating jobs and access to healthy food for the Bonton community.
Stand Together – A philanthropic community of entrepreneurs and leaders that identifies, vets, and creates organizations that discover innovative ways to remove barriers in education, business, communities, and government so every person can rise.