Bob Wiggins
Senior Vice President Venture Acceleration @ Rev1 Ventures
Columbus, United States
Bob Wiggins is a pre-seed investor at Rev1 Ventures in Columbus focused on Internet and Software. A serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Bob brings precisely the right experience know-how to help entrepreneurs and emerging high-growth IT companies succeed. From market and product validation to gaining first customers to raising capital, he’s been there and done that. It’s a job that he enjoys.Bob has a BS in economics from theUniversity of Oregon and a JD degree from the University of Oregon School of Law, where he graduated first in his class.Bob practiced law for 13 years and then made a career change, joining a telecom startup that was acquired in the late nineties by WorldCom. Since then, he has led several software startups and started a venture fund. He’s advised software companies, been an angel investor and a board member to a number of startups.Before relocating to Columbus, Bob had lived his entire life in Oregon. He moved the 2435.2 miles because he was excited about Rev1’s deal flow in the software and IT space. He sees great opportunity in collaborating with Rev1’s Innovation Partners to leverage spinout IT technologies and in leveraging the incredible corporate base here in Columbus to help startups gain those all-important first customers.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
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Industries Bob Wiggins invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 1 (33%)
- Software 1 (33%)
- Ride Sharing 1 (33%)
- Smart Cities 1 (33%)
- Transportation 1 (33%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 2 (67%)
- Seed 1 (33%)
Investments
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| SHARE Mobility is a cloud-based transportation management platform built for fleet operators, NEMT providers, municipalities, and private employers. The platform handles scheduling, dispatch, driver management, and rider communication for any transit model, from on-demand paratransit to employee shuttles, without hardware requirements or customdevelopment. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. SHARE supports fixed-route, on-demand, microtransit, flex-route, and demand-response operations from a single instance. The dispatch dashboard provides real-time GPS tracking, route status, and fleet visibility. AI-powered routing optimizes trips based on rider demand, vehicle capacity, and timing constraints. The platform includes three apps: an admin portal for dispatchers, a driver app with turn-by-turn navigation, and a rider app available in 11 languages. All apps support full white-label branding. Software-only, cloud-based, no proprietary hardware or on-premise servers required. | Seed / Dec 17, 2018 | ||
| SHARE Mobility is a cloud-based transportation management platform built for fleet operators, NEMT providers, municipalities, and private employers. The platform handles scheduling, dispatch, driver management, and rider communication for any transit model, from on-demand paratransit to employee shuttles, without hardware requirements or customdevelopment. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. SHARE supports fixed-route, on-demand, microtransit, flex-route, and demand-response operations from a single instance. The dispatch dashboard provides real-time GPS tracking, route status, and fleet visibility. AI-powered routing optimizes trips based on rider demand, vehicle capacity, and timing constraints. The platform includes three apps: an admin portal for dispatchers, a driver app with turn-by-turn navigation, and a rider app available in 11 languages. All apps support full white-label branding. Software-only, cloud-based, no proprietary hardware or on-premise servers required. | Pre-Seed / Sep 28, 2018 | ||
| Peerro is a free, revolutionary human resources platform that helps employers identify, hire, and retain qualified candidates by reducing employee hiring time, increasing employee moral, and reducing employee turnover. | Pre-Seed / Jul 09, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Rev1 Ventures
Rev1 Ventures is an investor startup studio that combines capital and strategic services to help startups scale and corporates innovate. Based in the Midwest, and in a top city for scaling startups, Rev1 aligns innovators and founders with corporate and research partners to access customers and markets, helping entrepreneurs build great companies.With a proven track record of identifying, guiding, and investing in high potential startups, Rev1 helps companies solve real problems for markets in need of real solutions. Rev1 has $100MM+ in capital under management, providing a capital continuum from corporate and community partners, as well as Ohio Third Frontier. Rev1 has been named among the Most Active VCs in the Great Lakes Region for the past three years in a row according to PitchBook. For more information, visit www.rev1ventures.com.
Rev1 Ventures Contacts
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David Bergeron
Senior Vice President Venture Development
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Bethany George
Sr. Director - Investment Funds
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Bob Wiggins
Senior Vice President Venture Acceleration
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David Dillman
CFO
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Kristy Campbell
Chief Operating Officer
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What does Bob Wiggins invest in?
Bob Wiggins invests primarily in Internet, Software and Ride Sharing startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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