Partner at Shotput Ventures
Greater Atlanta Area
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- Partner at Shotput Ventures
- Board of Directors at Band Metrics
- Investor and Director, Business Development at ShopVisible
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- Director, Business Development at Radiance Energies
- Co-Founder at RingBranch http://www.ringbranch.com
- Entrepreneur in Residence at Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech
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- Tulane University
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Allen Graber’s Summary
Allen has been instrumental in starting, growing, and profitably exiting Internet and software companies for over a decade.
Current:
Allen currently works in a sales and business development capacity at ShopVisible. ShopVisible is a total ecommerce solution that includes a complete suite of tools to enable businesses to grow online
Additionally, Allen is a founding partner of Shotput Ventures, a technology startup accelerator fund that focuses on capital-light web services companies.
Past experience:
From 1994 to 1997, Allen sold websites and web applications to major corporations. In his capacity of Director of Sales at HomeCom Communications and subsequently iXL, he regularly exceeded sales quotas and led company sales efforts.
In 1997, Allen self-funded and co-founded HyperMart, a pioneer in the web hosting industry. Graber was responsible for all operational, financial, and business affairs of this start-up venture. HyperMart was subsequently bought by Go2Net, a publicly traded Internet company in Seattle where he remained in an operating capacity through 1999.
During 2000 and beyond, Allen has focused his efforts on investing in and consulting with early stage technology companies, primarily in Atlanta, GA. Allen was a founding member of the Atlanta Technology Angels and served on the investment committee for their seed fund. He has invested his personal funds in over 15 Atlanta-based Internet and software companies, achieving an overall positive return on investment through the process. He has taken an active management role in a couple of these companies, including SPI Dynamics, a web application security company that was acquired by HP in July, 2007.
From 2004 to 2007, Allen invested in and worked as SVP, Business Development for SearchIgnite. SearchIgnite is a leading search bid management and portfolio optimization technology.
