Founder Spotlight

Founder Spotlight: Dan Pantelo (Marpipe)

Meet Dan Pantelo, Founder & CEO of Marpipe.

The son of Ukrainian refugees, Dan grew up with a deep appreciation for hard work, competition, and the opportunities created by building something from scratch. That mindset carried him from running early marketing businesses to founding Marpipe, where he’s helping brands and design teams take control of product catalogs and power the majority of performance-driven ecommerce advertising.

Founder Spotlight: Lizzie Matusov (Quotient)

Meet Lizzie Matusov, Co-Founder & CEO of Quotient.

Inspired by her parents’ journey of taking a chance on a better future and shaped by her own career as a software engineer, Lizzie has always been motivated to tackle big challenges. That drive led her to build Quotient, a platform that helps engineering teams uncover and resolve the friction slowing them down.

Founder Spotlight: Shauna Sweeney (tendercare)

Meet Shauna Sweeney, Founder & CEO of tendercare.

After spending eight years as a full-time caregiver for her grandmother, Shauna emerged with a deep understanding of just how emotionally and logistically overwhelming caregiving can be, especially when you're doing it alone.

She founded tendercare to change that.

With over 50 million Americans acting as informal caregivers, tendercare is tackling a massive, underserved market. The platform is more than just a task app, it's an AI-powered care coordination tool that brings structure to fragmented, high-emotion workflows.

We invested in Shauna and tendercare because she lived the caregiving chaos firsthand and built a mission-critical solution to solve it. She brings the clarity, grit, and founder-market fit we look for, and the early traction spoke for itself.

Watch Sweeney’s Rock, a short documentary that shares Shauna’s story, her bond with her dad, and the mission driving tendercare forward.