Purple Arch Ventures is a community of Northwestern alums: investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts with a connection to Northwestern or its graduate schools. At our core, we are a Northwestern alum venture fund investing in Northwestern alum-led companies. We are private, for profit, and not part of Northwestern. We strongly believe that we can do better investing in VC together than any of us can do alone.

AI based supply chain financing platform.

AI powered career development. Helping students curate the career path that is the best fit.https://www.careerhighways.com

Advisor to Vodori Executive Team.

Fund of funds. Providing access to Purple Arch Ventures, Alumni Venture Group, and 11.2 Ventures.

Part of turnaround team. Grew 22% to $14M and increased pipeline over 3X.

Raystar of Terra: Book 2, Alien Allegiance coming Q1, 2022Raystar of Terra: Book 1 wins "2017 Best New First Book" Silver Award- Moonbeam.Raystar had it all– homework, a big sis’, loving parents– until everything was turned upside down. To save her world, she must learn to control her tremendous powers. To save herself, she needs to learn what it means to be Human....I always wanted to write Science Fiction, since forever. Phillip K. Dick, J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein... there are so many great storytellers that inspired me. Special thanks to Perrin @ Three Muses ( https://threemusescreative.com ) and Bruce Mitchell, my good friend and editor. Show less

E-Procurement. Supply Chain Optimization. Product Lifecycle Management & Traceability. Neogrid is a supply chain optimization SaaS company servicing the retailer market. Customers include some of the largest retailers Walmart, Walgreens, Safeway, Supervalu, Whole Foods, to name a few. Key member of turnaround team. Managed USA, Mexico, Canada, along with strategic relationships in Latin American and Western Europe. Restructured NA organization. Introduced two new products into NA market. Generated three months of EBITDA positive growth in 2010. Net Income positive in 2011. Developed a $90MM pipeline. Won over $42MM in contracts in 2011. Show less

Grew region from $2.4MM to $21M in the USA and Europe, secured $60MM in orders and reduced SG&A by 50%. Company doubled, became net-income positive and share valuation increased over 5X.

K8 Solutions focuses on optimizing sales and marketing by matching the right mix of expenses, with the right mix of resources, with the right type of sales/marketing channels to achieve near term results and longer term sustainable revenue. Focus on building and executing revenue/growth plans based on company attributes, market, internal structure, and the types of transactions/commercial relationships customers have with their clients. K8 Solutions prior clients include: HP, Neogrid, Traceone, PopUp Republic, Caspian, Sentegrity, Vodori, OTS Solutions. Markets include: Business Process Outsourcing, Food Safety and Traceability, IT Outsourcing, Retail Supply Chain Optimization, Mobile and Infrastructure Security. Geographies include North America, South America, Western Europe. Skilled in large, technical, complex sales. Considerable work in multi-party, multi-level negotiations. Scaling teams, navigating successful cultural transitions to a sales-oriented approach, and organizational alignment as it relates to go-to-market is a key element of K8 Solutions' methodology. Show less

P3rceive is on a mission to democratize simulation and modelling. Consider: Each year business leaders wonder about results, the optimal staffing mix to drive results, and ways to optimize their processes to achieve the desired performance. Despite advances in technology, there are no tools to help them model and simulate outcomes. P3rceive will give executives a view into possible futures so they can make decisions now. The platform provides the ability to view these future outcomes based on current or planned assets, constraints and performance. Business simulation and modelling will be the new de-facto language of planning. P3rceive will make simluation and modelling as casually harnessed and ubiquitously available as GPS, vidoconferencing over an mobile device, or an Excel spreadsheet. Two Patents Pending

11.2 is disrupting the traditional venture capital model by building its Artificial Intelligence based companies internally, maintaining control and consistency throughout the growth process and exiting opportunistically.

BAMM! (Before and After Meeting Manager) is the next generation travel and meeting planning tool. It's the best way to plan, book, and manage your days, and collaborate with people and third parties. Get BAMM!, eliminate chaos, and get what you want out of your day. With integrations to Priceline, Uber, Uberconference, your when and where becomes effortless.

Acquired by 11.2 Ventures in July, 2020 K8 Ventures commercializes ideas. Concepts with high disruption and growth potential are commercialized through a rigorous process, culminating in significant terminal value and high shareholder equity in that portfolio company.