Anthony Bontrager
Director/Miembro de la Junta en Tectonic Audio Labs, Inc. .
Perfil
Anthony Bontrager joined WestRiver in January 2018 to lead the firm’s technology investment practice and where he enjoys partnering with entrepreneurs working on transformative ideas, contrarian approaches and building long-term, sustainable value.
He has led WestRiver’s investments in and sits on the boards of Groopit, Tagboard, CHEQ, QorusDocs, Tectonic Audio Labs, and PTO Exchange.
He also led the firm’s investments in Pioneer Square Labs III, The Riveter and Madrona Venture Labs III where is is a special advisor.
Bontrager also serves on the limited partner advisory committees for Energy Innovation Capital I and II, and Two Sigma Ventures III.
Prior board roles include Wicket Labs, Inc. (acquired by Brightcove, Inc.) and Igneous Systems, Inc. (acquired by Rubrik, Inc.).
Before WestRiver, Bontrager founded Soda Media, Inc., a strategic advisory firm for several family offices in the Pacific Northwest managing select venture investments.
Previously, he was President of Onecast, a mobile video news aggregation platform launched via Craig O.
McCaw’s Eagle River Investments and was also co-founder and CEO of IPTV transport provider Broadstream Communications, where he negotiated $36 million in capital and infrastructure funding from various investors, including the world’s largest satellite operator, Intelsat.
Throughout his career, Bontrager has been involved in over $600 million worth of venture/angel funding, content syndication, strategic acquisitions and partnerships within the digital media, software, and wireless industries.
Bontrager holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Seattle University.
He is a former member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Interactive Media Peer Group, and was a co-author of Washington State’s Wireless Siting Policy.
Cargos activos de Anthony Bontrager
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Tectonic Audio Labs, Inc.
 Tectonic Audio Labs, Inc. Electronics DistributorsDistribution Services Tectonic Audio Labs, Inc. provides entertainment services. It offers loudspeakers for use in AV rental, touring, and house of worship applications. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Woodinville, WA. | Director/Miembro de la Junta | 01/10/2018 |
WestRiver Management LLC
 WestRiver Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance WestRiver Management LLC (WestRiver Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Erik J Anderson. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | Inversor de Capital Privado | 01/01/2018 |
PTO, Inc.
 PTO, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services PTO, Inc. engages in the development and operation of software platform for education. Its platform enables employees to personalize workplace benefits by converting unused paid time off to tangible goods and services such as vacations, retirement funding, student loan debt payments, and charitable donations. The company was founded by Robert Whalen and Todd Lucas and is headquartered in Woodinville, WA. | Director/Miembro de la Junta | 01/11/2018 |
Energy Innovation Capital Management LLC
 Energy Innovation Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Energy Innovation Capital Management LLC (Energy Innovation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Jeffrey Clark. The firm is headquartered in Orinda, California. | Consultor / Asesor | 01/07/2018 |
JJT, Inc.
 JJT, Inc. Computer PeripheralsElectronic Technology JJT, Inc. provides digital imaging and database system sale services. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Director/Miembro de la Junta | 01/02/2023 |
Tagboard, Inc.
 Tagboard, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Tagboard, Inc. provides social media software. It is a software platform that uses the hashtag to aggregate social media for end-users, brands, agencies and marketers, displaying content from multiple networks in a comprehensive and engaging visual format. The company was founded by Jenni Hogan, Josh Decker, Tim Shimotakahara and Sean Sperte in 2011 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA. | Director/Miembro de la Junta | 01/04/2022 |
Cheq Lifestyle Technology, Inc.
 Cheq Lifestyle Technology, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Cheq Lifestyle Technology, Inc. develops social payment solutions for point-of-sale services, mobile orders, and peer payments. The American company was founded in 2021 by Thomas Lapham, Jim Castillo, and Jake Stone. Thomas Lapham has been the CEO since 2021. | Director/Miembro de la Junta | 01/02/2022 |
Qorus Software, Inc.
 Qorus Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Qorus Software, Inc. offers document automation software solutions. The firm offers Qorus DocGeneration, a solution that adds document automation features to Microsoft SharePoint, Word, and PowerPoint for the automatic or manual creation of customized client documents; and enables users to customize and generate Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, such as sales proposals and presentations, financial reports, contracts, and advisory reports. Its solutions include proposal & RFP management, pitch and experience management, accelerate sales and marketing and document generation. The company was founded by Raynard Stephen Meiring, Lee John Child and Stephanie Laurent in 2008 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA. | Director/Miembro de la Junta | 01/12/2019 |
The Riveter, Inc.
 The Riveter, Inc. Real Estate DevelopmentFinance The Riveter, Inc. engages in developing, constructs, leases and operates co-working office space for working women. It empowers women, professionally and personally, through events that celebrate and connect its members. The company was founded by Amy Nelson and Kim Peltola in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Consultor / Asesor | - |
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Formación de Anthony Bontrager.
| Seattle University | Undergraduate Degree |
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Onecast, Inc.
 Onecast, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Onecast, Inc. provided online and mobile broadcast news and information services. Its video search and newscast platforms deliver video clips of headlines in business, politics, sports, technology, and entertainment. The company also enabled viewers to create personalized newscasts across various broadband enabled or wireless devices. The company was founded in 2006 and was headquartered in Kirkland, WA. | Technology Services |
Energy Innovation Capital Management LLC
Energy Innovation Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Energy Innovation Capital Management LLC (Energy Innovation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Jeffrey Clark. The firm is headquartered in Orinda, California. | Finance |
Avail Media, Inc.
 Avail Media, Inc. BroadcastingConsumer Services Avail-TVN is the largest independent digital media services company in North America. Working with every major studio and television network, the company offers a full content line up of MPEG-4 encoded live programming as well as video on demand content in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to multichannel video providers throughout the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. The Avail-TVN platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today and is extensible to support the new services of tomorrow. Avail-TVN is the only company today to deliver to its customers a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV and Video On Demand (VOD) solution. The Avail-TVN solution includes a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD, and designed for future value-added services. Avail-TVN possesses an extensive content library, including transport rights from the top national programmers, including ABC-Disney, Turner, NBC Universal, MTV Networks, Fox Cable Networks as well as On Demand content from every major studio such as Buena Vista/Disney, DreamWorks, Lionsgate NBC Universal, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros and television network, as well as content only available On Demand. Avail-TVN also offers a proprietary software suite, ViewTrak™, which allows both carriers and content providers the ability to track programming activations on a real-time basis. Avail-TVN's solutions have been designed for and are today used by digital video providers of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail-TVN has a solution to suit your digital media services requirements. | Consumer Services |
Viewpath, Inc.
 Viewpath, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Viewpath, Inc. provides program and software management. The company was founded on May 4, 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Technology Services |
Wicket Labs, Inc.
 Wicket Labs, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Wicket Labs, Inc. engages in the development of audience insights platform for media and entertainment companies. The company was founded by Ian Blaine, Eric Knutson, and Marty Roberts in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Technology Services |
Igneous Systems, Inc.
 Igneous Systems, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Igneous Systems, Inc. provides unstructured data management as-a-service solution. Its products include DataProtect, DataDiscover and DataFlow. The firm’s business includes both the raw boxes of hard drives a business buys to store data and the software needed to manage it. It also provides cloud infrastructure to change the enterprise landscape. The company was founded by Kiran Bhageshpur, Byron Rakitzis and Jeff Hughes in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Technology Services |
Tectonic Audio Labs, Inc.
Tectonic Audio Labs, Inc. Electronics DistributorsDistribution Services Tectonic Audio Labs, Inc. provides entertainment services. It offers loudspeakers for use in AV rental, touring, and house of worship applications. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Woodinville, WA. | Distribution Services |
WestRiver Management LLC
WestRiver Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance WestRiver Management LLC (WestRiver Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Erik J Anderson. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | Finance |
PTO, Inc.
PTO, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services PTO, Inc. engages in the development and operation of software platform for education. Its platform enables employees to personalize workplace benefits by converting unused paid time off to tangible goods and services such as vacations, retirement funding, student loan debt payments, and charitable donations. The company was founded by Robert Whalen and Todd Lucas and is headquartered in Woodinville, WA. | Technology Services |
TableSafe, Inc.
 TableSafe, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services TableSafe, Inc. designs, builds and sells hardware and software products to eliminate credit and debit card information theft. The firm specializes in secure pay at the table transactions, marketing and guest communication opportunities, increased wait staff efficiency, custom applications, back of house labor and hard cost savings and faster table turns. The company was founded by Pope Andrew and Joseph Snell in 2010 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA. | Technology Services |
Tagboard, Inc.
Tagboard, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Tagboard, Inc. provides social media software. It is a software platform that uses the hashtag to aggregate social media for end-users, brands, agencies and marketers, displaying content from multiple networks in a comprehensive and engaging visual format. The company was founded by Jenni Hogan, Josh Decker, Tim Shimotakahara and Sean Sperte in 2011 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA. | Technology Services |
JJT, Inc.
JJT, Inc. Computer PeripheralsElectronic Technology JJT, Inc. provides digital imaging and database system sale services. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Electronic Technology |
Cheq Lifestyle Technology, Inc.
Cheq Lifestyle Technology, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Cheq Lifestyle Technology, Inc. develops social payment solutions for point-of-sale services, mobile orders, and peer payments. The American company was founded in 2021 by Thomas Lapham, Jim Castillo, and Jake Stone. Thomas Lapham has been the CEO since 2021. | Technology Services |
Qorus Software, Inc.
Qorus Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Qorus Software, Inc. offers document automation software solutions. The firm offers Qorus DocGeneration, a solution that adds document automation features to Microsoft SharePoint, Word, and PowerPoint for the automatic or manual creation of customized client documents; and enables users to customize and generate Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, such as sales proposals and presentations, financial reports, contracts, and advisory reports. Its solutions include proposal & RFP management, pitch and experience management, accelerate sales and marketing and document generation. The company was founded by Raynard Stephen Meiring, Lee John Child and Stephanie Laurent in 2008 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA. | Technology Services |
Soda Media, Inc.
 Soda Media, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Soda Media, Inc. is a private company based in Redmond, WA. Soda Media, Inc. was founded by Anthony Bontrager. | Commercial Services |
Broadstream Communications, Inc.
 Broadstream Communications, Inc. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications Broadstream Communications, Inc. provides broadband telecommunications services. The company operates the industry's first all digital (IP) virtual head-end network and service offering that enables service providers to create an efficient, cost-effective video service offering that breaks economic and performance barriers imposed by self-built head-end systems. Broadstream offers IP Video network in the world, and also offers the video solution in the industry. Broadstream is headquartered in Bellevue, WA. | Communications |
| Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. | Communications |
Fisher Communications, Inc.
 Fisher Communications, Inc. BroadcastingConsumer Services Fisher Communications, Inc. was a communications and integrated media company. It focused on creating, aggregating, and distributing information and entertainment to a broad range of audiences. The company operates television stations, which included network affiliations with ABC, CBS, FOX, Univision and CW. Fisher Communications also owned and operated Fisher Interactive Network, its online division and Fisher Pathways, a satellite and fiber transmission provider. The company operated its business though the following segments: Television and Radio. The Television segment included the operations of the company's owned and/or operated television stations and its developing media business. The Radio segment included the operations of the company's radio stations. Fisher Communications was founded on April 4, 1910 and was headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Consumer Services |
The Riveter, Inc.
The Riveter, Inc. Real Estate DevelopmentFinance The Riveter, Inc. engages in developing, constructs, leases and operates co-working office space for working women. It empowers women, professionally and personally, through events that celebrate and connect its members. The company was founded by Amy Nelson and Kim Peltola in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Finance |
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