Architecting Exits with our SaaS Founders.
Applied Data Labs founders experience covers the saas and data worlds. Our collective experience is specifically focused on Ad & Mar-tech companies. We provide our companies with a path to unlock their Enterprise Value by leveraging the tried and true model of strategic exits. Do we have something (an asset) that someone else in the market needs to hit their objectives. If we do the company get’s acquired and we unlock the value of your biggest personal asset your company stock.
Deals.
As investors in the digital economy, we collaborate closely on our major initiatives to drive exits with our founders and portfolio companies. We have shared a few of our successes below that we have either co-founded, invested in or rolled up.
Applied Data Labs is dedicated to solving complex problems in the Ad and Mar-tech sectors. The founders are paired with the Lab’s vast network of resources to ensure we can help our companies reach their next level of excellence and exit.
Our mission is to build long-term, successful solutions in the digital landscape leading to better returns, stronger community and enterprise growth.
We work together with our founders to engineer solutions we all own and can benefit from commercially.
We build things clients want.
We don’t care about capital raised or how much our shares are worth.
We care about what our founders and their teams can realize from building and selling their ventures.
What We Do.
How Founders benefit by partnering with us…
Access to other founders who have exited dozens of deals.
Understanding what to do and how to structure your exit is crucial. If not done properly millions of dollars can be left on the table.
Unlock a New World of Data Innovation.
Co-innovate a net-new product or service based on data so we can jointly go to market with our combined entities.
One partnership allows you to leverage our deal ecosystem.
Imagine having access to the most powerful data partners, experts and minds with a joint vision to support and help each other. We have done this with the Co-Op we created. We have run our playbook at least thirty times. Assembling the best resources to drive a solution bigger than any one player or contributor.
Meet Our Founders
Tim Crown
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Chairman of the Board/Co-Founder/Insight Enterprises, a Fortune 500 Company
Jim Weldon
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Jim has co-founded six companies over the last 25+ years and established a number of strategic alliances that have resulted in over $500 million in net-new business. His efforts in applied intelligence, e-commerce, social networking, and data-driven technologies have led to board of director roles for over a dozen companies during the last two decades.
Jim has worked with such notable clients as Intel, General Electric, HP, Dell, Sun Microsystems, AllState, and Bank of America. In addition, Jim completed his Master’s in Applied Intelligence (Summa Cum Laude) at Georgetown University and his undergraduate studies at Arizona State University in Leadership and Entrepreneurship.
Our Philosophy
The Infinite Mindset
“Infinite-minded leaders understand that “best” is not a permanent state. Instead, they strive to be “better.” “Better” suggests a journey of constant improvement and makes us feel like we are being invited to contribute our talents and energies to make progress in that journey.” - Simon Senek, The Infinite Game
An Ecosystem for the Greater Good
We believe that we can empower each other in the ad-tech sector to stand up against the status quo and advance towards the ideal data vision. Find a sense of purpose.
Data & Technology is Infinite and Dynamic
Our core framework is focused around existential flexibility which is the ability to profoundly make a strategic shift because we find a better way to advance towards our cause.
Rivalry Leads to Advancement
How can we shift from the competition to viewing firms via a rivalry prism, where weaknesses are revealed and improvements can be made. People we admire in our space push us to be better versions of ourselves.
A Trusting Team
We are a trusting community, collaborating on projects we feel is worthy and can be solved. Our approach is to build trust in companies to continuously improve performance and create a brighter tomorrow.
Courage to Lead
Our goal is to be in a world where all of the pressures are alleviate because we commit to the infinite game of data. Advance your purpose, protect your people, and generate a profit.
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We will all need to craft this. One idea as an Innovation Driven Agile Approach. The council will ultimately decide the form and function.
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Each other-we all must win intellectually and financially.
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The Applied Data Lab collective entity does. If we leverage a member's IP we would want a non-exclusive license to ensure any solution we develop can sustain in the marketplace. Commercial terms should be at a wholesale OEM partner type level to ADL-this should provide a strong initial guidance.
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Yes.