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Willy Schlacks is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder & President of
EquipmentShare (worth over $3B).
Willy has founded 5+ companies and has raised $600M+ from top VC firms and billions in debt. He was born and raised in Missouri.
William Schlacks
Managing Partner & GP
Jabbok Schlacks is the Co-Founder & CEO of EquipmentShare (worth over $3B).
Jabbok has founded 4 companies and has raised over $600M from top VC firms and billions in debt. He was born & raised in Missouri.
Jabbok Schlacks
Partner
Maria Heyen is a Venture Associate at Scale. She previously worked for the Nebraska Angels, Yoo and Co Accelerators, & Nelnet.
Maria grew up on the Oregon Coast and attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She is based in Missouri.
Maria Heyen
Investor
Brett Calhoun is the Managing Director & Partner at Scale VC.
Brett has co-founded two fintech startups, raised $10M+ in capital, was an early employee at Paytient, and has 4 years of early stage investing experience. He also holds a CPA/ABV and MBA.
He is based in Missouri.
Brett Calhoun
Managing Director & GP
Katie Campbell is a content strategist for Scale & MD student at Mizzou.
She is a writer/editor for academic journals and a published author.
She was born & raised in Missouri, and currently based in Miami.
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Katherine Campbell
Head of Content
Ty Clarke serves as the MP at Closed Arc Capital and is a EIR at Scale.
Ty sold his first company at 16 years old and has cofounded two venture backed startups as a technical Chief Executive Officer.
He is also based in Missouri.
Ty Clarke
Entrepreneur In Residence
ADVISORS
Co-Founder & CEO
of Zapier ($5B+ valuation).
He is based in Missouri.
Wade Foster
Advisor
Founder of Vinsolutions, Full Scale, and Startup Hustle. Bootstrapped to a $150M exit.
He is based in Missouri.
Matt Watson
Advisor
Co-Founder of BriteCore and DevStride. Raised $90M+.
He is based in Missouri.
Phil Reynolds
Advisor
Jai Malik is the Founder & General Partner of Countdown Capital.
Previously, Jai was an early product hire at two deep tech VC-backed startups (Accrete & Forge.AI) as well as an investor at Rocana Ventures. He is based in Miami.
Jai Malik
Advisor
CEO & Co-Founder of
SUMMERSALT (Raised $40M+)
She is based in Missouri.
Lori Coulter
Advisor
Founder of Paytient. Raised $60M+
He is based in Missouri.
