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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.

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William Schlacks 

Managing Partner & GP

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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

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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.

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Maria Heyen

Investor

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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.

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Brett Calhoun

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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

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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

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ADVISORS

Co-Founder & CEO

of Zapier ($5B+ valuation).

He is based in Missouri.

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Wade Foster

Advisor

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Founder of Vinsolutions, Full Scale, and Startup Hustle. Bootstrapped to a $150M exit.

He is based in Missouri.

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Matt Watson

Advisor

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Co-Founder of BriteCore and DevStride. Raised $90M+.

He is based in Missouri.

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Phil Reynolds

Advisor

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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.

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Jai Malik

Advisor

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CEO & Co-Founder of

SUMMERSALT (Raised $40M+)

She is based in Missouri.

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Lori Coulter

Advisor

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Founder of Paytient. Raised $60M+

He is based in Missouri.

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Brian Whorley

Advisor

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