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You drive.
We help navigate.

RevRoad Capital is a seed-stage venture fund designed to scale founders faster and help them drive more value for customers, employees, and investors. In collaboration with RevRoad, a sweat equity firm for early-stage companies, we combine our deep operational experience with a commitment to keeping our promises to help founders allocate capital, build high-performing teams, prevent premature scaling, and enlist the help of others to scale their businesses. We’re not just passive investors; we actively participate in the startup journey, matching our capital with expertise. Founders drive. We help navigate. Let’s scale together.

David Mann

Executive Managing Director

David is a serial entrepreneur and former Amazon executive. He is a builder that has focused his career scaling companies and developing high-performing teams that have grown from from early start-up to 1,000+ person organizations.

David sits on the board of directors for RevRoad and has also been deeply involved in development work as a board member for Mothers Without Borders. David’s professional passion is coaching founders to help them avoid many of the painful lessons learned through his years of experience building teams and businesses.

Derrin Hill

Managing Director

Derrin is a builder. He has built and scaled multiple companies from founding, to early stage, and large scale enterprise levels. He specializes in empowering individuals and teams, systems for growth, motivated communities, and strong companies. He has founded/co-founded 10 companies to date with 8 of them with great outcomes. One of those companies is RevRoad, starting with RevRoad Services (with several dozen successful portfolio companies), and most recently with RevRoad Capital, now working with its second fund. Creating a virtuous cycle of sustainable growth is his goal. Serves as an advisor to several non-profit organizations including the Smithsonian Science Education Center.

Bart Skalla

Managing Director

Bart is an experienced CFO and investor. He co-founded RevRoad in 2017 and supported portfolio companies by leading RevRoad’s Finance and Capital Services. Leveraging his decades of experience in startups, corporate finance and venture capital, Bart imparts his wisdom to the startups he advises.

Previously, Bart worked as an economist for Texas Instruments where he also helped to create an in-house venture fund and later a VC fund on his own.

Rachelle Morris

Managing Director

Rachelle is an experienced investor and former Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan executive. She has focused her career around balance sheet optimization and stewardship of capital and sits on the partnership advisory council for The Norden Group.

Rachelle is passionate about building community and loves to help founders grow their companies through navigating networks and resources available through the private and public sectors and serves on the board of directors for World Trade Center Utah.

Jeff Martin

Managing Director

Jeff is a multi-exit serial entrepreneur, award-winning technology innovator, and was a direct report to Steve Jobs at Apple. He brings his years of applying innovation to multimedia product design that includes integrating AI, building new mobile commerce channels by changing the way consumers engage with entertainment, business, and social impact. 

Jeff is actively involved with the Harvard Center of Astrophysics, chairs the Smithsonian Astronomy Council, National Academy of Sciences – Roundtable, Braintrust for United Nation “Xprize” that is associated with the UN’s 4th SDG and Ernst & Young Luminary. 

He has sat on the Boards of Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC), appointed by the UN Under-Secretary-General to the UNFPA Global Advisory Board for Innovation and the first co-chair of the Albert Einstein Foundation.

James Prasad

Chief Financial Officer

James is a serial entrepreneur and former Red Hat executive. He brings a unique perspective to being a financial executive having founded companies and scaling them to IPOs. He has focused his career maximizing the financial needs of startups as they scale with his deep knowledge and experiences in engineering and operations. James is passionate about giving back to the community and is deeply engaged with the communities in Silicon Valley. He brings his years of involvement and lessons learnt to building teams and maximizing operations.

 

Scott Petersen

Managing Director (on Sabbatical)

Scott is a serial entrepreneur and experienced angel and VC investor. During the course of his career, he founded or co-founded several companies that have led to profitable enterprises and successful exits.

Scott was the Executive Director of the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at BYU for 10 years, earning a top five program ranking each of those years. He is an expert in leadership, early stage product roadmaps, helping companies find product/market fit.

RevRoad and RevRoad Capital

If you’re not ready for seed-stage capital, look to our sister company, RevRoad. RevRoad is a venture services firm that puts the human in capital—they’re the experts in startup success, offering boots-on-the-ground services from strategy to go-to-market to product development. They offer three principles-based programs to suit your unique stage designed to help founders grow smarter.

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