CoPilot Announces Board of Directors Following Additional $10 Million Funding and Launch of Assisted Commerce Platform
21 8월 2020 - 11:00PM
CoPilot, the assisted commerce leader for high-value purchases,
today announced its outside board of directors, serving alongside
CoPilot founder and CEO Pat Ryan.
“I am extremely excited to publicly share the news of Brett
Hurt, Rob Chesney, and Tom Ball serving on the CoPilot board of
directors,” said CoPilot CEO and founder Pat Ryan. “They have
successfully guided us through our private beta, during which we
grew to over $500 million Annualized Gross Merchandise Volume. Now
that we have launched CoPilot’s app to the public, their decades of
hands-on experience in building, growing, and funding large
technology and commerce businesses will help us bring our platform
to everyone who shops for or owns a car. I am especially honored
and appreciative that this is the only for-profit board of
directors that Brett Hurt serves on outside of his own company,
data.world. Having a legendary founder like Brett adds incredible
insights and wisdom to our journey.”
The announcement of the addition of the three board members is
on the heels of CoPilot publicly debuting its mobile app-enabled
service today, designed to assist shoppers as they navigate
high-value purchases, starting with the $1.2 trillion U.S. car
market. To fuel its growth, CoPilot also raised an additional $10
million in outside funding, bringing total outside investments to
$17 million.
Brett Hurt, CEO and co-founder of data.world
Brett Hurt is the CEO and co-founder of data.world, a Public
Benefit Corporation (and Certified B Corporation®) that is the
platform for modern data teamwork and the world’s largest
collaborative data community. data.world's modern catalog for data
and analysis wakes up the hidden data workforce within every
company, unifies silos, and creates data-driven cultures faster. In
2017, 2018, and 2019, data.world was honored on the “Best for the
World” list by B Lab, placing the company in the top 10% of all B
Corps globally. Brett is also the co-owner of Hurt Family
Investments (HFI), alongside his wife, Debra. HFI are involved in
89 startups, 27 VC funds, and multiple philanthropic
endeavors.
Brett co-founded and led Bazaarvoice as CEO, through its IPO,
follow-on offering, and two acquisitions. Bazaarvoice became the
largest public SaaS (Software as a Service) business in social
commerce and was named by the WSJ as one of the top IPOs of 2012.
Brett also founded and led Coremetrics, which was rated the #1 Web
analytics solution by Forrester Research and, like Bazaarvoice,
expanded into a global company and leader. Coremetrics was acquired
by IBM in 2010 for around $300m.
In 2017, Brett was given the Best CEO Legacy Award by the Austin
Business Journal. He is a Henry Crown Fellow and Braddock Scholar
at the Aspen Institute. Brett began programming at age seven and
doing so on the internet at age eighteen. He finished his free
book, “The Entrepreneur’s Essentials,” in August 2019.
Rob Chesney, General Partner at Chicago Ventures
Rob is an experienced Internet entrepreneur and operator with
more than 20 years of experience in building and leading startup
organizations. He is currently a Partner at Chicago Ventures
where he supports the overall management of the fund and is
responsible for deal sourcing, diligence and investment, and
working directly with portfolio companies.
He has deep consumer and e-commerce experience and has led
multiple businesses through periods of hyper-growth. Most recently,
Rob served as COO of Trunk Club where he played a central role in
the general management of the company; overseeing customer
acquisition, leading innovation of the technology platform, and
managing the build-out of the company’s operations. The company was
sold to Nordstrom Inc. in 2015. In previous roles, Rob was an
Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners and spent 8 years at
eBay where he served in various roles, including Vice President of
eBay Motors and Vice President Buyer Experience & Verticals for
North America.
Tom Ball, Founding General Partner at Next Coast Ventures
Thomas Ball is a founding general partner of Next Coast
Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in
Austin, TX. Prior to NCV, Tom was previously at Austin Ventures
from 2005-2015 where he served as a general partner. While at
Austin Ventures, he was also an investor and/or on the board of
multiple companies including RetailMeNot (Nasdaq: SALE),
Bazaarvoice, Jam City, Donuts, Jigsaw.com (acquired by Salesforce)
and Adometry (acquired by Google).
Prior to his involvement with Austin Ventures, Tom founded a
number of successful companies, including Openfield Technologies,
which merged with Razorgator Interactive Group, where Tom was CEO,
and eCoupons, where he was also CEO until the sale of the company
to Lifeminders.
Tom graduated from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford
University and the University of Florida.
About CoPilotCoPilot provides consumers with an
expert partner for the high-consideration purchase process starting
with car buying and ownership. The platform combines powerful data
backed by human expertise to introduce transparency to the
shopping, purchasing and ownership journey. The mobile application
takes the time, frustration, and guesswork out of the process,
empowering people to easily navigate the risks of shopping for
high-value items and buy with confidence. The beta version of the
CoPilot app for car buying was first created in 2018 after nearly 3
years of building out a one of a kind, deep tech data platform.
CoPilot is backed by Chicago Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, Max
Levchin’s SciFi Ventures, and angels including Accel Partners
cofounder Arthur Patterson. CoPilot is headquartered in Chicago
with teams in Austin and San Francisco.
Media Contact:Chris Powell BOCA Communications for
CoPilotpress@copilotsearch.com
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