# J.B. Kropp

> J.B. Kropp is a seed investor at The Brandery backing Apps and Mobile. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Brandery](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-brandery)
- Location: Cincinnati, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Dec 2014
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kropp
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jbkropp
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jbkropp

J.B. Kropp is a seed investor at The Brandery in Cincinnati focused on Apps and Mobile. J.B. Kropp is the current CEO of Double Cross Vodka. He previously worked at Dinovite as a President. J.B. Kropp attended Denison University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 3 | 38% |
| Mobile | 2 | 25% |
| Family | 1 | 13% |
| Travel | 1 | 13% |
| Leisure | 1 | 13% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Strap | Strap enables actionable human data to inform and improve marketing and engagement programs. They believe the consumer centered journey must be personalized because a more personal world is a better world. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 02, 2014 | http://www.straphq.com/ |
| Dónde | Donde is a mobile store locator service with tools to drive retail sales. 30% of website traffic is coming from mobile devices. Just making all of your desktop and tablet content fit the screen doesn't work because mobile users are almost exclusively looking for store locations. Although m-commerce is $25BB per year in the US, shoppers use thestore locator 63 times for every 1 m-commerce order. In fact, 82% of mobile shoppers actually make their purchases in a physical location.A poor mobile locator experience is costing you sales. People can't find your stuff. Get a best-in-class mobile first locator today. For free. Unlimited locations, unlimited traffic, analytics included. At Donde, they believe location is the tip of the iceberg in improving online to offline conversion. | $1M | Seed | Feb 05, 2014 | http://donde.io |
| Roadtrippers | The first complete road travel planner. Roadtrippers helps travelers drive to the world’s most interesting places by streamlining discovery, planning, booking, and navigation into a single free platform that syncs seamlessly across devices. The Roadtrippers platform gives users real-time access to a unique, curated database of millions ofplaces with concentrated coverage in the US and Canada. The mobile app compliments the comprehensive web trip planner with virtual concierge suggestions, weather forecasts, date-based planning, and specialized cartography.78% of total US travel & tourism spend is by people traveling by road, and long-distance car trips are 3x more frequent than air transportation. Maps are still the most important tool for planning a trip (59% people use digital maps vs. 23% hotel reviews). By building a map-based interface catering to the road travel community, Roadtrippers seizes a huge opportunity that existing travel planning sites focused on airfare overlook. |  | Series A | Aug 12, 2013 | https://roadtrippers.com |
| FamilyTech | FamilyTech offers brands and businesses a family-focused environment. It offers apps used by millions of parents, teens, kids, and couples to make life easier and more rewarding. Its apps are used by millions of parents, teens, kids, and couples to make life easier and more rewarding. Its current lineup includes MotherShp (for parents), Landra (forteens), ChoreMonster (for kids), and HoneyDo (for couples). It was founded in 2011 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. |  | Seed | Jul 31, 2013 |  |
| FamilyTech | FamilyTech offers brands and businesses a family-focused environment. It offers apps used by millions of parents, teens, kids, and couples to make life easier and more rewarding. Its apps are used by millions of parents, teens, kids, and couples to make life easier and more rewarding. Its current lineup includes MotherShp (for parents), Landra (forteens), ChoreMonster (for kids), and HoneyDo (for couples). It was founded in 2011 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. |  | Seed | Dec 21, 2012 |  |
| FamilyTech | FamilyTech offers brands and businesses a family-focused environment. It offers apps used by millions of parents, teens, kids, and couples to make life easier and more rewarding. Its apps are used by millions of parents, teens, kids, and couples to make life easier and more rewarding. Its current lineup includes MotherShp (for parents), Landra (forteens), ChoreMonster (for kids), and HoneyDo (for couples). It was founded in 2011 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. | $350K | Seed | Jan 30, 2012 |  |
| FamilyTech | FamilyTech offers brands and businesses a family-focused environment. It offers apps used by millions of parents, teens, kids, and couples to make life easier and more rewarding. Its apps are used by millions of parents, teens, kids, and couples to make life easier and more rewarding. Its current lineup includes MotherShp (for parents), Landra (forteens), ChoreMonster (for kids), and HoneyDo (for couples). It was founded in 2011 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. | $25K | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2011 |  |
| Roadtrippers | The first complete road travel planner. Roadtrippers helps travelers drive to the world’s most interesting places by streamlining discovery, planning, booking, and navigation into a single free platform that syncs seamlessly across devices. The Roadtrippers platform gives users real-time access to a unique, curated database of millions ofplaces with concentrated coverage in the US and Canada. The mobile app compliments the comprehensive web trip planner with virtual concierge suggestions, weather forecasts, date-based planning, and specialized cartography.78% of total US travel & tourism spend is by people traveling by road, and long-distance car trips are 3x more frequent than air transportation. Maps are still the most important tool for planning a trip (59% people use digital maps vs. 23% hotel reviews). By building a map-based interface catering to the road travel community, Roadtrippers seizes a huge opportunity that existing travel planning sites focused on airfare overlook. | $20K | Seed | Jul 01, 2011 | https://roadtrippers.com |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CincyTech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cincytech) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mercury Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercury-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [New Coast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-coast-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chicago Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chicago-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Detroit Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/detroit-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Drive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drive-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About The Brandery

VC Fund · Cincinnati, United States

The Brandery is a seed-stage startup accelerator nationally ranked as one of the top ten programs in the United States.The Brandery is a seed stage startup accelerator that leverages the expertise of the Cincinnati region, namely branding, marketing and design. We believe that building your brand-- and not just a product-- is a way startups canbe more resource efficient and increase their probability of success. In addition to an elite mentor list, startups will be paired with world-class creative agencies and have access to some of the biggest companies in the world, including Procter & Gamble, dunnhumby, and Kroger. The Brandery runs one, four-month accelerator program a year for 10-12 companies. We receive a 6% equity stake in each startup in exchange for $50k, a year of free office space, and over $200k in additional benefits.

5 contacts available at The Brandery.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| J.B. Kropp | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-b-kropp |
| Jeff Boeh | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-boeh |
| Matt Lenahan | Member and Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-lenahan |
| Sarah Kubala | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sarah-kubala |
| Sean McCosh | Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sean-mccosh |

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## FAQ

### What does J.B. Kropp invest in?

J.B. Kropp invests primarily in Apps, Mobile and Family startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact J.B. Kropp?

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### When did J.B. Kropp last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for J.B. Kropp closed in Dec 2014. Shizune tracks 8 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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