Clete Brewer
Managing Partner @ NewRoad Capital Partners
Fayetteville, United States
Clete Brewer is a Series A investor at NewRoad Capital Partners in Fayetteville focused on Software and SaaS. Clete Brewer brings 25 years of experience leading successful startups and publicly traded companies that broadly encompass the service industry, retail, franchising and manufacturing. He has led two IPOs and raised almost $400 million in public and private financing.Since 2010, he has served as chairman and CEO of BlueInGreen, a watertechnology disruptor for the environmental treatment of water and wastewater. Prior to that, Mr. Brewer was president and co-owner of Sport Clips, Inc. During his tenure there, Sport Clips grew from 42 franchised stores to over 675 with revenues of over $250 million. From 1988 to 2002, he served as president, CEO and co-founder of Staffmark where he led the IPO (STAF:NASDAQ). Under his leadership, the company grew from $600,000 in sales to over $1 billion. Mr. Brewer was also chairman of Staffmark and Edgewater Technology. Clete serves on the boards of several high-growth emerging companies, the Executive Advisory Board at the Sam Walton College of Business and is a co-founder of Gravity Ventures Arkansas Fund. Mr. Brewer graduated from the Walton College of Business in 1987 with a BSBA in finance.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 80%
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Industries Clete Brewer invests in
Stages Clete Brewer invests in
Countries Clete Brewer invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (40%)
- SaaS 3 (30%)
- Logistics 2 (20%)
- Information Technology 2 (20%)
- B2B 1 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (40%)
- Series B 4 (40%)
- Series D 1 (10%)
Investments
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Optilogic
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You’ve built supply chain models to help your company make good decisions, analyze results and answer tough questions. But you know there are better ways for optimization and simulation to make a greater impact. That’s where Optilogic comes in. Optilogic empowers organizations to rethink Supply Chain Design by incorporating optimization,simulation, and risk into a single, unified, cloud-native platform that is built for hyper-scale, security, affordability, and extensibility. Corporations can now enable their supply chain teams to devise supply chain strategies that incorporate the optimal balance between financial performance, cost, and service while understanding the geographic and systemic risk in their supply chains. | $40M / Series B / Apr 08, 2025 | |
Platform Science
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Platform Science is an enterprise-grade IoT fleet management platform for the new era of connected trucks, freight, and the digital supply chain. Since its launch in 2015, Platform Science has spent thousands of hours working with fleets to make transportation smart. The company is based in San Diego, California, United States. | $125M / Series D / Apr 09, 2024 | |
Emerge
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Emerge is web-based truckload management system that connects shippers and their partners when executing full truckload transactions. Its system includes quote management, real-time tracking, real-time chat, analytics, history, and automated lane/repeat shipment creation.Emerge is built and maintained by industry experts that understand thepain points of working in freight and logistics. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. | $130M / Series B / Sep 23, 2021 | |
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Platform Science
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Platform Science is an enterprise-grade IoT fleet management platform for the new era of connected trucks, freight, and the digital supply chain. Since its launch in 2015, Platform Science has spent thousands of hours working with fleets to make transportation smart. The company is based in San Diego, California, United States. | $54M / Series B / May 26, 2020 | |
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Emerge
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Emerge is web-based truckload management system that connects shippers and their partners when executing full truckload transactions. Its system includes quote management, real-time tracking, real-time chat, analytics, history, and automated lane/repeat shipment creation.Emerge is built and maintained by industry experts that understand thepain points of working in freight and logistics. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. | $20M / Series A / Feb 04, 2020 | |
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Platform Science
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Platform Science is an enterprise-grade IoT fleet management platform for the new era of connected trucks, freight, and the digital supply chain. Since its launch in 2015, Platform Science has spent thousands of hours working with fleets to make transportation smart. The company is based in San Diego, California, United States. | $10M / Series A / Jul 18, 2018 | |
DRINKS
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DRINKS is the operating system for online alcohol, reinventing wine buying for the 21st century. Through the pioneering DRINKS Wine as a Service (WaaS) platform, the company brings adult beverages safely and conveniently to customers across the United States in 1-2 days.DRINKS created a new way to build a direct relationship with consumers byopening up the beverage alcohol category for online shopping. The company’s WaaS platform allows any retailer, brand, or marketplace to launch its own ship-to-home wine program quickly and easily, enabling our partners — including Fortune 20 and industry-leading digital marketers — to reach 96% of adults in the U.S. DRINKS’ WaaS managed brands, Wine Insiders and Martha Stewart Wine Co., are the leaders in premium, affordable ship-to-home wine.DRINKS powers this unique ecosystem with its patented DRINKS IQ technology, including the ability to customize merchandising and deliver unique recommendations and messaging for each shopper.We are proud to work with top influencers and tastemakers coupled with high-quality wine producers from around the world. DRINKS’ data-driven wine sourcing engine delivers exceptional unit economics for WaaS partners, with private label packaging designs informed by machine learning and optimized for online consumer appeal.DRINKS was named one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes for the past two years, a top place to work by Built In LA for the last three years, and was recognized as the Most Innovative Retail Model by Modern Retail in 2020. | $11M / Series A / Jun 12, 2017 | |
Shiftboard
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Shiftboard is an online scheduling system. It's a new way to grow and manage your database of people, schedules, reports and daily business. Shiftboard provides a place, sometimes called a Portal, where organizations establish their own customized web-based scheduling, coordination, communication, reporting and member recruitment hub.Workers and other members can view schedules, join teams, pick up shifts, get reminders, communicate with managers, track availability, refer friends and colleagues, and generally stay much better connected than when using traditional methods of coordination.Using Shiftboard, site owners create and manage an unlimited number of Teams or Workgroups, appoint co-workers, managers, and other site members to those teams. By using the power of social networking and 24/7, web-based self-service business management tools, Shiftboard lets organizations work with partners, cut bureaucracy and scale their business, daily management and recruiting potential beyond office walls, telephone budgets and the 9-to-5 workday. | $11.5M / Series A | |
Bardavon Health Innovations
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Bardavon Health Innovations is empowering quality healthcare decisions through networked technology, transparency, and communication. They work collaboratively to offer the first comprehensive approach to workers’ compensation programs for managing the entire life-cycle of the employee, from hire to retire. | $15M / Series B | |
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DRINKS
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DRINKS is the operating system for online alcohol, reinventing wine buying for the 21st century. Through the pioneering DRINKS Wine as a Service (WaaS) platform, the company brings adult beverages safely and conveniently to customers across the United States in 1-2 days.DRINKS created a new way to build a direct relationship with consumers byopening up the beverage alcohol category for online shopping. The company’s WaaS platform allows any retailer, brand, or marketplace to launch its own ship-to-home wine program quickly and easily, enabling our partners — including Fortune 20 and industry-leading digital marketers — to reach 96% of adults in the U.S. DRINKS’ WaaS managed brands, Wine Insiders and Martha Stewart Wine Co., are the leaders in premium, affordable ship-to-home wine.DRINKS powers this unique ecosystem with its patented DRINKS IQ technology, including the ability to customize merchandising and deliver unique recommendations and messaging for each shopper.We are proud to work with top influencers and tastemakers coupled with high-quality wine producers from around the world. DRINKS’ data-driven wine sourcing engine delivers exceptional unit economics for WaaS partners, with private label packaging designs informed by machine learning and optimized for online consumer appeal.DRINKS was named one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes for the past two years, a top place to work by Built In LA for the last three years, and was recognized as the Most Innovative Retail Model by Modern Retail in 2020. | Series A |
Co-Investors
About NewRoad Capital Partners
NewRoad Capital Partners is a growth equity capital firm based in Rogers, AR, that invests in proven and innovative technologies, products, and services that serve existing, unmet needs in the marketplace. NewRoad focuses on investing in and acquiring demand-driven businesses in the Retail and CPG and Business Services industries with an emphasison Supply Chain and Logistics, Consumer Goods, Outdoor Goods, Healthcare Technology, Media and Retail Technology.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Rogers, Arkansas.
NewRoad Capital Partners Contacts
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Christopher Ladd
Partner
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Clete Brewer
Managing Partner
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Gary Adams
Operating Partner
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Gregory Bledsoe
Operating Partner
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John Sheehy
Operating Partner
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What does Clete Brewer invest in?
Clete Brewer invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Logistics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Clete Brewer last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Clete Brewer closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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