Market Chemistry

Fundraising gets easier when the right people know your story.

Market Chemistry connects early and growth-stage founders with investors who fit their mission and momentum. From venture rounds through community and private placements, we match founders with strategic investors.

We’re the next‑gen bridge between bold builders and the capital that believes in them.

Founder

Builtwell

Strategist

WICKED Protein

The industry's first Clean-Label certified refrigerated and shelf-stable protein bars. WICKED has active enterprise partnerships with Sysco, UNFI, Wakefern, and Market Basket, as well as eCommerce presence across Amazon, Snackmagic, and Bodybuilding.com. WICKED is tracking to be a successful DTC brand, with revenue growth being over 300% last year alone.

Strategic Advisor

Rally Safety

Rally is a safety tech platform that empowers people to build safer schools, workplaces, and communities. Rally connects users in potentially dangerous situations with members of the community and our emergency monitoring professionals to send help in seconds. Keep yourself and your loved ones safe with the most powerful mobile safety system ever built.

Personal mission for involvement:

"I want to be part of a world that doesn't consider safety a privilege or an obligation. It is simply something we deserve. Working on the Rally team means creating and implementing the vision for an era where we can be our own champions of personal safety."

Chief Marketing Officer

ibble

ibble is the #1 thread-based social platform that is reinventing how people have digital conversations and engage with ideas that matter most to them.

Key experiences:

- Launched beta app in Testflight, public app on App Store and Play Store. Responsible for developing strategy and leading implementation on all GTM plans.

- Grew App Store conversion rate from <1% to >26%, dramatically slashing acquisition costs.

- Developed mature influencer program with maximum cohort sizes of 150 influencers per cycle.

- Co-created VC pitch deck leading to $12.6M in funding and the largest series seed in TX history.

Director of Marketing

Marketing Consultant

TyRex Group, Ltd

TyRex Group, Ltd. is a family of innovative technology companies that provide clients with custom solutions throughout the entire product life cycle.

Austin Reliability Labs: Recognized as one of the top product reliability labs in the country with a unique balance of testing and consulting services, Austin Reliability Labs (ARL) is a place where we recognize the hard work and passion that goes into the design and development of your product. 

Digital Light Innovations: Regarded as the world leader in DLP® light exploration, Digital Light Innovations (DLi) is a full-service design and manufacturing company with extensive experience creating unique DLP®-based solutions for a broad range of applications.

iRex Custom Cables: Established in 2001 with a goal of absolute customer satisfaction, iRex is a world-class contract manufacturer of quality cable assemblies and harnesses.

Megladon: A global industry leader in fiber optic connectivity, Megladon has spent 15 years developing and perfecting the HLC® interconnect.

SabeRex: A preferred service provider for major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), SabeRex offers a wide array of technology services across the entire United States and beyond.

Tekrex: TekRex is the Development arm for six TyRex Technology Family companies, and offers the same services to external entities to help them develop technologies that bring their winning ideas to life.

Arctos: Backed by a highly-skilled staff with expertise in assemblies for a multitude of industries, Arctos Assembly has provided full “built-to-print” contract manufacturing services for printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies, sub-assemblies and system-level assemblies (box builds) while also specializing in supply chain management and customized integration since 2001.

Saber Data: Saber Data is your premier partner for software development with a dedicated team experienced on a wide range of platforms including mobile (Android, iOS, Windows), Linux and Windows.

Digital Marketing Manager

Capital Parking ATX

Interim Chief Operations Officer

Voices Of Impact Podcast

Director Of Operations

Hey, I'm Cate 👋

My goal is to give amazing founders a fighting chance to build and scale successfully in their market.

That's why I founded Market Chemistry, where my team and I connect innovative startups to their best-match investors.

I'm deep in the startup community and have worked with companies across industries - healthcare, SaaS, CPG, renewable energy, apps, biotech, aerospace, data & software, and more. 

I represent myself through four core values: take extreme ownership, growth is compounding, think independently, and care relentlessly.

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