Ideas to Invoices

Stephanie Breedlove founded Breedlove & Associates in 1992. She built the nanny payroll company into a multi-million-dollar business with more than 10,000 active clients. In 2012, Care.com acquired her company for $55 million and it became Care.com Homepay, according to an article in Forbes. Today, Breedlove is an angel investor with the Central Texas Angel Network and an author of All In: How Women Entrepreneurs Can Think Bigger, Build Sustainable Businesses, and Change the World, published in 2017.

Adam Salamon is the first Entrepreneur in Residence at Next Coast Ventures, an Austin-based venture capital firm. Salamon most recently served as co-founder and chief operating officer of Perk Inc., a rewards and engagement platform that went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange. RhythmOne PLC acquired Perk earlier this year.

This episode of Ideas to Invoices features Andrea Kalmans, a principal of Lontra Ventures. is an angel investor, She is an angel investor, mentor and technology advocate in Austin. She has worked as an executive with Dell and Salomon Smith Barney in its media investment bank in New York City. She earned her MBA from UT Austin and she has degrees in finance and economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Chris Saum and Teresa Evans are partners in the RealCo Seed Fund Program, based at Geekdom in San Antonio. They oversee the admissions, mentoring, training and fundraising process for business to business technology startups in the portfolio. The program accepts startups on a rolling basis through applications on its website and other sites. Saum also regularly travels to recruit new startups. 

Ideas to Invoices features a discussion with Krishna Srinivasan, general partner with LiveOak Venture Partners and Ivelin Ivanov, Co-founder and CEO of Telestax, one of the firm’s portfolio companies. Srinivasan is a co-founder of LiveOak Venture Partners and has been investing in early stage Texas-based companies and entrepreneurs since 2000. Ivanov is a technology entrepreneur who is the co-founder of TeleStax, the company behind Restcomm – the #1 Communications Middleware Platform.

Chris Burney is the executive director of the San Antonio Angel Network, founded in 2016.  As the head of the San Antonio Angel Network, Burney evaluates deals, recruits new members and runs the organization, which is based in the RealCo Seed Fund Program offices at Geekdom in downtown San Antonio. 

Ben Dyer is a well-known entrepreneur in Atlanta and Austin who founded Peachtree Software in 1978.  He ran that company until 1981 when it sold to Altanta-based Management Science America, shortly before the debut of the IBM PC. Peachtree Software was one of the original software programs to run on the IBM PC.  

Chris Treadaway founded Polygraph Media in 2011, which has created Internet advertising technology that drives traffic and revenue via Facebook advertising for customers like McDonald's, Fox TV and Six Flags.

Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp, are general partners of True Wealth Ventures, a $20 million venture capital fund based in Austin and focused on investing in women led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health industries.

John Price, CEO of Vast

MIchael Girdley, entrepreneur and managing director of the Geekdom Fund

Clinton Phillips, founder of Medici

John Berkowitz, Co-Founder Yodle, Co-Founder OJO Labs

Chris Taylor, Founder of Square Root

Ben Rubenstein, Co-Founder and CEO of Opcity and Co-Founder of Yodle