Full-stack venture building platform focused on building, buying, and backing great companies. Cultivating entrepreneurship as a force for good in the world.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Joined February 2023
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Fireroad retweeted
Really excited for the next 12 months as we continue to build the simplest way to buy and sell small businesses with our recent raise 🥳
shoutout to the amazing folks at @CollideCapital and @fireroadbuilds for the conviction in our team, tech, and vision.
Back to onboardings!
Big news! SMB.co just closed a $1M pre-seed round led by @CollideCapital with support from @FireroadVC!
We're reimagining small biz ownership to make it more accessible, transparent, and impactful. smb.co/blog/smb-co-raises-1m…
Fireroad retweeted
Really enjoyed being on this pod! Tim Metzner - Founder & CEO at Fireroad: Nurturing Your Culture, Retaining Top Talent, and Leaps of Faith buff.ly/3Xd73ZY
We love our job and our founders!
love this positivity
the entire @fireroadvc team - @TMetzner @cmhjohnson @rywalker @buildbuyback and others - have been the most helpful and founder-friendly people and investors I've ever worked with who have been there before.
Opening their network and expertise to founders wellll before they might even be ready for investment.
Fireroad retweeted
SMB's founding team has logged stints at local startups like Roadtrippers and Coterie. bizjournals.com/cincinnati/i…
Fireroad retweeted
Exciting day today in my next “you can’t start a company like that in the Midwest” journey, @tembo_io raises Series A, backed once again by the absolute greatest VC firms. tembo.io/blog/series-a 🔥 we are fired up to execute from here 🔥
First Annual Letter! 👀🔥🛣️
Enjoyed working with the team to pen the first @fireroadbuilds annual letter. Initially wrote it for our shareholders, but decided there's no reason not to share!
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Just posted Tembo Cloud to Product Hunt producthunt.com/posts/tembo-…
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Happy New Year let's build something fresh
the @acquiredotcom for small businesses
smb.co acquired ✅
come join us!
Easy! Thx to the great work of @garydarna.
PSA to all our friends building/buying in the space -- make sure you're getting the right property & casualty coverages!
According to IBISWorld, there are over 145,000 HVAC businesses in the United States as of 2023.
HVAC businesses face several unique risks that insurance agents should consider when writing coverage.
Learn more: bit.ly/3OiQHKX
Helping to build @StartupCincy is one of our great joys! Thankful for this community.
Still reminiscing on the impact of @TMetzner Founder & CEO of @fireroadbuilds and @ThisIsKirstenM Founder & COO of @Cloverleafme’s Fireside Chat at #SUCW2023. Thank you for exploring how to build a mission-driven team, find your co-founder, & the ins & outs of the hiring process.
Fireroad retweeted
It's Demo Day for @OceanPrograms!
See you this afternoon (in person or online). oceanprograms.com/demo-day-2…
Running down another fireroad!
Pumped to be raising a fund w/ @rywalker & @cmhjohnson!
Ry and I have been dreaming about this for a decade but we knew we needed more experience so that we could be the kind of investors that founders could really lean on.
Announcing @fireroadvc buff.ly/3YPUK58
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Just landed another absolute hitter to the @fireroadbuilds team. Can’t wait to announce.
Man I love building world class teams! ❤️🙏🔥
See you there!
Join us in Cincy or virtually for OCEAN Demo Day 2023! buff.ly/45jxDlw
Can't wait to see who will become the next Ocean success story, like @RenjiBijoy (who just announced the @ImmersedVR IPO plans this week)!
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Working on some visual brand exploration for @fireroadbuilds ... the intention here is for it to look like a flame and a topographic map. What do we think?
#buildinpublic
