Grind Startup Ventures

Building a startup (or an innovation arm of your business) is nearly impossible. There are countless challenges headed your way, and believe it or not, only a handful of factors can lead to success, while hundreds can cause you to fail.

We collaborate with seed stage - to series A founders and medium to enterprise-sized companies to accelerate innovation and drive critical initiatives forward. By empowering corporations to swiftly implement cutting-edge mobile products and advanced AI solutions, we mitigate risks and enhance agility. Our expertise enables businesses to navigate the ever-evolving tech landscape, ensuring they stay ahead of the curve and achieve their strategic objectives with unparalleled efficiency and effectiveness.

What We Offer:

Your Problem, Right Solution Fixes: We identify your most pressing issues and craft the right solutions to address them effectively.

Your Talent Requirements, Right Small Team Working on the Challenges: We provide the precise team with the expertise needed to tackle your specific challenges.

Your Headache, Guaranteed Relief: We guarantee measurable improvements, offering you peace of mind and concrete results.

Our projects start at $250,000 USD.

Principal Consultant

SeeSnap

SeeSnap: AI is Revolutionizing Project Management from Planning to Payment

About Us
SeeSnap is a pioneering SaaS platform transforming construction, property management, and contractor workflows. We provide seamless visual documentation and workflow automation to enhance efficiency from planning through payment.

Key Features
1. Smart Photo Workflow

Metadata Enrichment: Captures user, image, location, and timestamp data for accountability and compliance.
Real-Time Verification: Provides proof of work done, reducing disputes.
AI-Driven Insights: Flags issues and validates progress.
2. Automated Workflows:
Customizable processes for punch lists, change orders, and approvals streamline project efficiency.

3. Integrated Payment Solutions:
Connects payments to verified milestones, minimizing late payments and fraud.

4. Collaborative Communication:
Facilitates task assignment, issue resolution, and punch list management within a unified platform.

5. Vendor Management:
Effectively manage relationships with trades, contractors, and subcontractors for improved collaboration.

Core Solutions
Vendor Management:
Maintain vendor profiles and performance metrics with a centralized communication hub.

Property Maintenance & Punch Lists:
Track maintenance needs and create punch lists in real time.

Claims & Dispute Management:
Compile visual evidence to mitigate disputes and generate compliance-ready documentation.

Payment Milestone Automation:
Set payment milestones backed by visual proof to ensure accountability.

Why Choose SeeSnap?

SeeSnap reduces risk and increases transparency, streamlines vendor management, and ensures smooth cash flow from project completion to payment. Empower your teams to work more efficiently and drive success in every project.

Founder and CEO at SeeSnap

sxipped

Are you a Logistics Partner looking to Enhance your Cash Flow? Are you an innovator and early adopter?

We are developing an advanced A to B delivery engine powered by AI, set to revolutionize how goods are transported. Our solution modernizes the pickup, delivery, and safety processes, transforming the logistics landscape.

Our proprietary algorithm is designed to maximize financial rewards, ensuring fair compensation for every effort. By evaluating factors such as distance, time, and demand, the algorithm provides competitive rewards for each delivery.

Drivers can effortlessly track their earnings and performance through our intuitive interface, which highlights the direct impact of their work. Additionally, we offer ongoing support and training to help drivers optimize their earnings and excel on our platform.

Partner with us to boost your cash flow and ensure you and your drivers are rewarded for quality, service, and outcomes.

Founder - building an A to B delivery engine platform that rewards costs, times and outcomes. 

CoachCRM

We help customers track the Coaching Plans, Activities, and Results that drive sales rep performance. I'm a Closed Loop (CoachCRM) Triangle selling Certified. I use the S.C.A.L.E and P.L.A.N methodologies and connect smart business owners and founders to the CEO Cory Bray for review of sales team and possible induction of triangle selling courses as a first step.  

I highly recommend anyone with a sales team under 200 people take the Triangle Selling courses at Clozeloop University you can sign up at clozeloopuniversity.com

Advisory Board Member

Compliance PT

In under 12 months as Senior Advisor and acting Chief Revenue Officer & COO, I spearheaded the turnaround of multiple startup initiatives, including adding three multi-billion-dollar enterprise healthcare pilots, closing a co-marketing agreement for 5,000 locations, and securing major new logo pilot accounts. I built sales and marketing processes from the ground up, including CRM implementation, and provided strategic guidance for a new product build.

Our AI SaaS solution monitored insurance payer policies to ensure compliance with medical record requirements and reduce the noise-to-signal ratio. By combining algorithmic monitoring with human analysis, we deliver unparalleled accuracy, providing plain-English policy change notifications. Our solution makes important updates immediately actionable and trackable, aligning seamlessly with revenue cycle management needs.

Chief Revenue Officer (offered CEO role and equity) 

ANKR

Founder, CEO, and lead investor. 

ANKR was a napkin idea turned into a full-fledged IOT app-enabled hardware startup. 

I built the engineering team, set up the manufacturing partner in Asia, and lead the company to market.  I personally signed 2 nationwide retail distribution partnerships. This plan paved the way to me to add major eCommerce and retail partners, Including Walmart, HomeDepot and one hundred e-commerce partners in less than 90-days. 

The company was turned over to a new CEO in late 2015. (then crickets) nothing... sad.

 www.ANKR.com - Watch QVC video below.

Mark Russell Filaroski - Founder, CEO & Investor

Ncontracts

Ncontracts.com is a web-based contract management solution you can use to manage vendor contracts, client contracts, employment agreements, leases, and virtually any type of business contract.

Acquired. https://www.gryphon-inv.com/news-article/gryphon-investors-acquires-ncontracts-a-leader-in-integrated-risk-management-software-for-the-financial-industry/

Mark Russell Filaroski -  Investor

CompNation - Nashville Future 50 - Value added reseller for HP, Cisco, and 100's of OEMs (Exited) 

Bootstrapped to 13.1 million in revenue (from $0) 
Inc500 - List of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies 3x (2009, 2010, 2011)
Honored as an Internet Etailer - #538 (2010)
Nashville Area Chamber announces 2010 Future 50 Award winners

Hardware/Software VAR / 150 + million sold.

Solo Founder & CEO -Multiple time INC 500 - #538 Internet retailer -Exited - Protected under NDA

Continental Computer Corp (On prem server software and equipment) 

In my initial role post-college, I started as a Sales Representative and, within just over a year, advanced to the position of National Sales Manager. During this period, I played a crucial role in driving the company’s revenue growth from several hundred thousand dollars to over $10 million.

This role required navigating significant challenges, including a comprehensive reorganization and a complete overhaul of sales processes and hiring practices. I was responsible for revamping sales territories, scripting, and operations, and for developing the company’s entire go-to-market (GTM) strategy.

I managed the daily cold calling operations, leading a team that averaged over 4,000 calls per day. In this capacity, I served as a trainer, sales manager, and closer, ensuring high performance and adherence to best practices.

My leadership extended to coordinating the company’s sales and marketing functions, where I developed and executed comprehensive strategies across both areas. I closely monitored and analyzed sales and marketing activities to ensure alignment with goals, making necessary adjustments to drive continuous improvement.

Additionally, I strengthened partner relations with over 100 OEMs, negotiating and managing product agreements, and overseeing the integration of hardware and software solutions. Through these efforts, I ensured that sales and marketing initiatives were aligned with the company’s strategic goals, leading to substantial growth and enhanced operational efficiency.

From graduating college to National Sales Manager in less than 2 years - EXIT - Protected Under NDA

SeeSnap is focused on helping those in construction/proptech have fast, efficient, and error-free operations

Board Chairman | Founder & CEO, SeeSnapINC | Startup Mentor | 3X Inc. 500 Alumnus | Nashville Future 50

As the Founder and CEO of SeeSnapINC, I lead the company’s strategy, vision, mission, and funding efforts, always with a customer-centric approach. I'm a results-driven startup leader with a proven track record of taking companies from inception to multi-million-dollar success. My relentless commitment to winning the hearts and minds of our customers drives me daily. I'm an ENTJ personality type—assertive, strategic, and focused on achieving excellence.

Professional Expertise:

Self-starter with a talent for implementing and driving transformative change.
Strategic and analytical thinker, adept at planning, motivating, organizing, and achieving specific outcomes.
Skilled at swiftly building relationships, maintaining credibility, and fostering teamwork to achieve 100% of key objectives.
Goal-oriented, with a natural drive to lead and influence others to act.

100% Guided by Faith: I believe God gives us the ideas, courage, smarts and abilities to deliver his will.  God first—upholding faith-based values in all aspects of my life and work. I strive to exemplify professionalism, unquestionable integrity, and the highest moral and ethical standards in everything I do. Because of this, I recognize that challenges often arise, including encounters with bad actors who must be dealt with firmly.


Accomplishments:

Bootstrapped multiple startups to over $10 million in revenue each ($11.6M, $13.1M, and $15.8M).
3X Inc. 500 honoree as a solo bootstrapped founder.
Mentored, helped, or invested in over 200 startups, with 16 achieving successful exits and 30+ reaching Inc. 500 status.
Nashville Future 50 
Named Internet Retailer of the Year (#538).
Past member of the Young Presidents Organization.


Philanthropy:Actively supports initiatives led by people of integrity.

Local Catholic Church and affiliated groups.
Tucker's House (Talk to Graham Honeycutt about sponsoring a special needs project today).

Mr. Mark Russell Filaroski 🤳

Leantime (Techstars '23)

Leantime is a people-first project management system that simplifies work management and combines it with AI and the behavioral science proven to improve engagement, productivity and profitability.

Bringing a holistic approach to the $3.9 trillion digital transformation market, Leantime supports the 1 billion knowledge workers in the world by addressing the fact that up to 73% of a project’s success depends on people dynamics and in a market where current tools focus solely on the technical aspects of PM.

Growing, they have:
-- Over 30,000 accounts across their open-source and SaaS platform
-- Over 1.7M Docker Pulls and nearly 4K Github stars
-- A global community and are translated in 40 languages

Built to support the business lifecycle from start to enterprise workflow, Leantime truly differs from traditional PM tools like Jira and Asana by also
-- Connecting strategy and the impact of the work
-- Simplifying project management and making it accessible to non-project managers
-- Supporting the workflows of the 1 in 5 neurodiverse individuals in the world by building features with cognitive accessibility in mind.

Leantime has been part of the AWS Impact Accelerator Latino Founders Cohort 2023, an NC IDEA MICRO grant recipient, a NC IDEA Seed semi-finalist, a RIoT accelerator participant, a NC Tech Top 10 NC Tech Startups to Watch in 2023, and is a Techstars portfolio company.

Some of our features include:
- Kanban, List, & Table views for To Dos
- Subtasks & Dependencies with a visual Kanban overview
- Goals
- Idea Management
- Milestones
- Strategy Boards (SWOT, Business Model Canvas, Lean, +more)
- High level strategic one pager 
- Timesheets and time tracking 
- Reports & Analytics
- Retrospectives / Project reviews
- Portfolio overview
- Document & File management
- ADHD friendly & inclusive reading themes
- Strategy Management
- Program Management
- AI features -- Subtask creation, Task priority, AI Coaching, Personalized Project Descriptions +more

Founder & Head of Product

Sleepme Inc.

- Hired as Product Manager and promoted in less than 6 months. 
- Owner and leading the development, UX enhancement, analytics monitoring and support of 2 Shopify high 8 figure sales volume e-commerce websites with upwards of 100k monthly users (US & AU platform)
- Managed & led an over 250 web page, company name rebrand and complete domain migration; including technical system upgrade, page design and development, and content creation. Product delivered on time.
- Sourced and implemented a new payment option that brought in 3x the revenue compare to a previous option in its 1st month
- Lead & aligned cross functionally along 6 teams totaling ~40 close team members and more external team members
- Hired, onboarded, and management of summer internship; part of overall hiring team
- Writing of technical documentation, PRDs, roadmapping, user journeys
- Led strategy of organic SEO keyword and blog content 
- Ownership of and implementation support of tools such as Google Analytics, VWO, Data Studio, advertising pixels, and more.
- Working across B2B, B2C and B2B2C product development with additional product spaces

Digital Product Manager Lead

Digital Product Manager

Purple Alpaca LLC

• Created profitable high-five-figure agritourism firm within a year, handling or managing: growth, marketing, brand awareness, events, operations, product development, media, community.
• Collect market data and conduct analysis by following trends and designing new product offerings while driving concept implementation; and work with teams to execute KPIs, leading to multiple thriving revenue streams.
• Boosted monthly revenue by 600% by conceiving of, planning, and executing product launch and marketing.
• Became go-to expert for knowledge of agritourism and alpaca care; and owned the problem definition, analysis, work planning, and execution of work streams.
• Increase social media marketing and community outreach, growing Facebook and Instagram followers from 0 to 2,800 and 1,100 in under a year.
• Spearhead large-scale events that generate revenue in the five figures, such as an Easter Egg Hunt for 600+ guests.
• Design branding and serve as company photographer, selecting models to promote diversity and inclusion, resulting in Visit NC Farms requesting to use the images for its billboard marketing.
• Build and nurture strategic relationships with television and print media; and coordinate pieces to ensure maximum effect.
• Direct team of up to five employees and 1099 contractors, handling interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
• Saved 50% on materials by sourcing them while managing supply chains for on-going construction projects.
• Devised out-of-the-box solution for exterior composting / toileting systems that was sustainable, cheaper, faster to implement than traditional options, and complied with zoning, planning, building, and fire ordinances.
• Plan and oversee writing and editing of website copy; and implement and manage SEO on WordPress.
• Craft educational content and courses for additional package options for events, such as corporate team building, alpaca yoga, and soap felting.

Founder and Managing Partner

Novant Health

• Rotate through serving as an endoscopy technician and pre-op, recovery, and procedural RN.
• Perform specimen management, provider coordination, patient management, and endoscope cleaning.

Endoscopy Nurse

Colibris Web Design & Communications

• Worked alongside CEO in managing full lifecycle of customer-related projects; and, due to background in clinical nursing and medical research, consulted on medical and health care-related engagements.
• Managed social media, web copy, and SEO, the latter both for firm and as added client service.
• Wrote and implemented website content and blog articles on content management systems like WordPress and Joomla, including for clients across industries such as manufacturing and health care and startups.
• Identified potential customers, analyzed customer business problems via scheduled discovery meetings, and designed solution-based proposals; helping increase sales and generate business revenue.
• Helped conduct Web Dev Tucson Meetups with company CEO/owner; and attended local BNI meetings

Project Manager

University of Washington Medical Center

• Executed and co-led MRI screening and NICU studies with frequent lab, IV draws, and injections. 
• Chosen to be one of nurses cross-trained in frozen specimen handling and storage and in sampling centrifuging.

Clinical Research Nurse

Wyzant

Taught and tutored nursing students on preparing for nursing exams, studying material and also in preparations for the NCLEX examination.

Nursing Tutor

Seattle Children's

• Assisted clinical research team with implementation of defined protocols. 
• Administered trial medications, monitored for adverse reactions, and managed studies related to allergy treatments, muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, and various other conditions.  
• Worked closely alongside researchers in: designing and implementing SOPs for research studies, trained in Good Clinical Practices (GCP), and managing the clinical work and documentation.

Swedish Medical Center

• Supported team in change management process during its expansion to another facility, including helping navigate employee schedules, benefits, and implementation.
• Ensured success of employee onboarding by creating outline for preceptor training and developing tracking tools.
• Supported employees and team during organizational changes by working directly with health care union, as well as conducting union outreach and making legislative support calls.

Radiology Nurse

Video My Doc

• Developed telemedicine focused startup intended to treat pediatric patients with non-emergent injuries or illnesses as an alternative to the emergency room prior to current remote medicine market
• Participated in: Startup Weekend Tucson to pitch concept and find cofounders; Lean LaunchPad for additional six weeks to continue developing business ideas with mentors and local startup and entrepreneurship leaders; and the final Startup Shark Tank, pitching to Desert Angels and other investors with 15 other teams.
• Created minimum viable product (MVP) and gained local market traction (https://fb.watch/aEAcA1N7Uo/).
• Produced and designed product’s market fit and marketing content, focusing on developing the customer story.
• Navigated health care and insurance legislation during market research and organization building.
• Attended medical, chamber of commerce, local business markets, and NAWBO meetings and events.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Open Source Founder | Adding a human touch to project management and how we view #productivity + managing #projects with #ADHD

Did you know that 53% of tech workers are neurodivergent, yet companies report only 3% of their workforce as such? This 50% gap represents a massive untapped potential in the global workforce.

As a late-diagnosed ADHD individual and parent to a neurodivergent child, I've navigated the challenges of traditional work environments and productivity tools. This journey led me to a groundbreaking realization: the future of work needs a radical redesign.

Enter Leantime - a revolutionary AI-powered platform built on a patent-pending approach and proprietary motivation model. We're not just another productivity tool; we're reshaping how neurodivergent minds engage with work.

Key Highlights:
- Addressing a market of up to 500 million unsupported neurodivergent knowledge workers
- Combining individual work management with cutting-edge project management techniques
- Leveraging AI and behavioral science to inspire productivity and foster self-awareness
- Shifting from "just do it" to "I see the value and impact I create"

At Leantime, we're not just building software; we're crafting the future of inclusive, empowering workplaces. Join us in unlocking the full potential of neurodivergent minds and revolutionizing productivity for all.

Want to be part of how we change the future of work? Send me a dm or visit our website at: https://leantime.io

#NeurodiversityInTech #FutureOfWork #AIProductivity #InclusiveWorkplace

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