Test Kitchen Capital

DALE STEPHENS - MANAGING DIRECTOR

Dale is a managing director at Test Kitchen Capital and former founder who currently works in San Francisco, CA USA He is a superconnector who loves to speak about the future of work and education to audiences worldwide: from TED to the New York Times--more than 250 events and counting! In 2011 Dale became one of the first Thiel Fellows, and in 2013, Forbes named him a 30 Under 30 in Education, and Penguin published his book “Hacking Your Education Dale is the founder of Uncollege org (now Gap Year Global” and grew the organization to $2M in revenue

Dale has a deep interest in diversity and is a member of several LGBTQ groups

MARCY SWENSON - MANAGING DIRECTOR

Marcy is a managing director at Test Kitchen Capital and a founder with multiple exits She was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Critical Path, Inc which went public and was voted “the best-managed, fastest growing tech company” by Forbes ASAP in 1999 She is a UCLA and Stanford alumna (Math/Computer Science/AI), and earned her coaching certification from Sofia University

For the last decade, Marcy has been a leadership coach for some of the world’s most successful tech startup founders through her company Startup Happiness

Marcy is passionate about increasing diversity, given her experience as an LBGTQ female founder

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Olivia the CEO truly believes in the companies mission to connect women, create friendships that last, and combat the modern loneliness that eats away at mental health

Every game publisher’s greatest asset is mobile game players and their relationships with each other Rave Social helps publishers build experiences that connect players and leverage the connections between them in ways that add deeply to gameplay, offer a richer online experience, improve overall player experience and make the game feel more alive, resulting in more engaged audience, improved virality and greater retention

Rave Social's CEO and founder Maggie brings a rare mix of leadership and technical expertise from Microsoft, Upsight, and U of Illinois to her team

Union Crate is a SaaS platform that acts as an all-in-one supply chain platform for CPG brands It is already used by KraftHeinz and others and has a MRR run rate

The platform does two things: Demand Planning & Forecasting Union crate automates 80 to 90 percent of tedious demand planning tasks and ensures higher accuracy forecasts in a lot less time Traditional demand planning require cross-functional teams to manually collect and analyze internal, external and 3rd party data This process requires massive amounts of time, and resources that only lead to highly inconsistent and mediocre results Union crate uses machine learning and data science to solve this

Order and Data Management Streamlines the trading of purchases orders, shipment messages and data on one platform It allows you to easily send, receive and manage data in any format Union Crate removes the high costs associated with EDI and frees you from the burden of managing multi-format orders and data

The CEO Shastri is from a very diverse background and currently lives in NYC

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