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Our background is in B2B SaaS. We love investing in tools that make businesses more efficient and tools that help those businesses delight their customers.
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We want to see early signs that customers love your product. Typically that is seen with product usage, retention, referrals, and reviews.
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Our best companies are first movers in massive markets and have a differentiated product that prevents immediate competition from gaining market share quickly.
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Ryan Shank has been in an operator role at 3 venture-backed SaaS companies in the past 8 years. He's currently the CEO of PhoneWagon, a unified communications and analytics platform, a SaaS company he co-founded in 2017. PhoneWagon has raised $2 million in venture capital and is currently doing 7-figures in annual recurring revenue.
Prior to PhoneWagon, Ryan was the COO of mHelpDesk, a top-rated field service software company, which was acquired by HomeAdvisor/Angie's List in 2014 after raising just $500k in outside capital
Ryan has been angel investing since 2014 and has participated in 15+ deals. He has been published in Forbes, Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and many others. You can email him at ryan@cameoventures.com, see his connections on Linkedin, and follow him on twitter @ryanashank.
We've made 15 investments in the past 3 years and will continue to do about 5 per year.
