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Renegade Partners is a VC firm purposefully built to help entrepreneurs navigate the "Supercritical phase", a pivotal phase, where scale needs to be achieved quickly but also correctly, in a way that allows you to achieve full impact.

Early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies. They assembled a team of senior operators and investors with one goal: to help founders build great companies.

Matchstick supports the creation and growth of early-stage technology companies in rapidly growing yet underserved startup ecosystems. And, to show that founder-first, modern, and collaborative relationships are the way to go.
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They have seen first hand that world-changing companies can be created anywhere, especially in the North and Rockies regions of the US.
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Arra leads Craft's investments in SaaS and marketplace companies. Prior to Craft, she was head of operations and strategy at BuildZoom (YC), a marketplace connecting homeowners with the most reliable contractors in their area. She was an early employee and managed business operations, finance, strategic partnerships, and customer success teams across the company’s three global offices in the US and the Philippines. She also executed data licensing partnerships with companies in various market segments such as insurance, real estate, and financial services as part of a new revenue channel for the company. Arra began her career at J.P. Morgan in investment banking.

Roseanne currently serves on the boards of Renegade portfolio companies Spekit, Nate, Rewire, LaHaus, Daily, and Auxilius. Prior to starting Renegade, Roseanne was a Partner at IVP, a later-stage venture capital firm. At IVP, she invested across enterprise and consumer in companies such as Glossier, Compass (COMP), MasterClass, Wise (LSE:WISE), Looker (Acquired by GOOG), and Motive. She continues to serve on the board of MasterClass, where she had led the Series C and D. Roseanne started her venture career at Canaan Partners, where she invested in companies such as MetaCloud (Acquired by CSCO), Unifi Software (Acquired by Boomi/Dell), and Turo. Before moving to the dark side, Roseanne’s tech career began when she dropped out of her PhD to co-found imthemusic, building apps on the early Facebook platform. She was also a product manager at NextBio (Acquired by Ilumina).

Brian (aka Bmur) leads Craft’s investment team. Since helping start the firm in 2017, Brian has built the infrastructure that powers the firm's investment process and has hired a talented team to expand Craft's growing portfolio. Prior to joining Craft, Brian held leadership roles at a number of B2B SaaS startups like Yammer and Zenefits. Brian is also the cofounder of Cabal, a tool that helps founders get more out of their investors and advisors.

Jaclyn joined foundry in 2016 with a passion for supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs and investors. Jaclyn leads direct investments in early-stage companies, often collaborating with Foundry’s partner funds. She helped launch the partner fund strategy, building Foundry’s portfolio to over 45 managers. Bringing her unique LP + GP perspective, Jaclyn has become a go-to sounding board for emerging VCs.

Jaclyn first fell in love with entrepreneurship while earning her JD/MBA at CU Boulder. There, she served as Executive Director of Startup Colorado, where she got to know Foundry and the incredible Boulder/Denver startup community the firm helped catalyze. In her brief stint as a practicing attorney, Jaclyn advised clients in M&A transactions and early-stage financings. She also witnessed the founder journey first-hand, working closely with her husband and his family as they built B2B SaaS company, FareHarbor (acquired by BKNG).