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I'm Dan Moyers and Stryde Ventures is my platform for 3 things I love, have deep expertise in, and experience doing successfully.
CONSULTING SERVICES
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I'm able to work as a fractional functional area executive in an embedded and immersive way for startups and scale-ups and as a fractional venture partner for early-stage focused venture organizations.
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For startup and scale-up companies
For startups and scale-ups, my functional areas focus is customer delivery/success, product management, and/or operations. My emphasis is on creating or optimizing functions and I work on a fractional basis at either 10 / 20 / 30 hours per week through a fixed monthly fee + equity based model tailored to each client.
My current clients include companies such as 120Water.
My current clients include companies such as 120Water.
for venture Organizations
For early-stage focused venture organizations such as firms/funds, family offices or corporate development arms, my focus is on serving as a fractional venture partner or operating partner. In this role I am able to help expand deal flow, conduct founder/deal screening and vetting, execute holistic cross-functional diligence, and support principals if/where needed in their investment decisioning.
For private equity (PE) firms/funds my focus is on serving as an operating executive or operating partner to support in deal diligence/execution and/or in post-deal operational execution within portfolio companies.
For private equity (PE) firms/funds my focus is on serving as an operating executive or operating partner to support in deal diligence/execution and/or in post-deal operational execution within portfolio companies.
Strategic projects
I am open to executing one-off strategic projects that will have a material impact on a business. Examples are functional area 360 assessments, functional area process and org design, market and/or product research and analysis, and operations optimization.
For Large Mature Businesses
For large mature businesses, my focus is being a fractional resource for corporate development departments/efforts and/or creating/leading/managing internal technology oriented innovation or "intrapreneurship" initiatives.
BUSINESS CREATION
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I create, self-fund, and operate niche businesses in areas of personal passion for me such as fly fishing and outdoor experiences. I am also open to new business collaboration including helping entrepreneurs in the idea stage.
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Catchflo
Catchflo is fishing's first and only fishy casual footwear brand.
Catcha
Catcha was fly fishing's first and only digital playbook company. It was a fun and rewarding user generated content (UGC) marketplace based business that I ran for 4 years (retired it in Jan 2023) in which I learned a lot but ultimately decided to retire the business due to challenges of scalability. Catcha was much like a blend between Substack and Patreon for fly fishing knowledge holders and those seeking knowledge.
Basecamp
Basecamp is a turnkey RV glamping experience I own and operate for guests using Hipcamp and through partnerships I've created with private land owners. Basecamp operates in the San Juan mountains of southwest Colorado during the summer and fall and then moves to The Driftless Region of Wisconsin during the winter through spring.
STARTUP INVESTING
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I invest in seed-stage B2B SaaS tech and tech-enabled startups in various spaces. I seek compelling founders building venture scale companies that solve real problems in markets where the timing for innovation and impactful new solutions is right.
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direct investments
My direct investment portfolio includes 120Water, Clear Software (exited to Microsoft in 2021), PivotCX, and Groundwork.
Limited partner (LP)
I am an LP in M25's Fund III and am excited about all of the investment activity as M25 is the most active seed stage venture firm in the Midwest.
zworks
I was the co-founder, Board President and Executive Director of zWORKS and led all aspects of its formation, sponsorship and crowdfunded founding membership fundraising, space selection/design/buildout, and its finance and operations.
zWORKS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and is Zionsville Indiana's entrepreneurial and co-working center. zWORKS has become a "notable node" in Indiana's startup ecosystem serving 150+ members, "graduating" nearly 20 startup companies who've created 70+ jobs and raised $25M+ in Seed and Series A capital.
I have also invested in four (4) zWORKS startup graduate companies: 120Water, Clear Software (acquired by Microsoft in 2021), PivotCX and Groundwork.
zWORKS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and is Zionsville Indiana's entrepreneurial and co-working center. zWORKS has become a "notable node" in Indiana's startup ecosystem serving 150+ members, "graduating" nearly 20 startup companies who've created 70+ jobs and raised $25M+ in Seed and Series A capital.
I have also invested in four (4) zWORKS startup graduate companies: 120Water, Clear Software (acquired by Microsoft in 2021), PivotCX and Groundwork.