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Chosen Ventures is an investment fund and a holding company focused on the identification and the acquisition of powerful technology platforms and effectiveness and efficiency focused solutions that allow to drastically improve the speed and quality of software development. We also focus on acquiring, developing and partnering with companies with business models that can deliver significant results faster by drastically improving the speed to market and the quality of the products and services that the companies we invest in can deliver.
Focused on both the b2b enterprise level sales across a number of lucrative verticals, and having access to world class sales leaders across the globe who have years of experience delivering multi million dollar sales over and over and year after year with most of the largest brands in the world and a secondary focus on the creation of powerful and useful DIY b2b solutions and solutions for ventures focused on the b2c markets that can change the world and can be sold through marketing driven sales, Chosen Ventures is poised well to deliver incredible returns to our limited partners.
Using our powerful, proven and state of the art low code and no code development engines and focused on field operations management, asset management platforms, mobile, AI, IoT and digital transformation and organization intelligence engines for businesses that are asset heavy both in terms of employees and physical assets and also focused on our low code and no code platforms and unmanned AI data and report databasing, no code analytical tool delivery and and powerful web and mobile interfaces allowing to deliver such data to customers, employees and partners in real time we are focused on also helping industries and verticals that are data heavy drastically improve the speed and the quality of their products and services and to also participate in ventures that can provide the same in the DIY b2b and the b2c space directly.
Our Platform as a Service tools also let third party partners develop their own and community driven projects that can turn into powerful business and social enterprises and will help numerous individuals, businesses and organization to solve their problems, while also providing us access to new unique business models and business investment opportunities.
Our focus is on Agile. We do not focus on creating large solutions. We focus our teams and our investments to stay agile, and to develop useful apps and modules that do not need a lot of time to develop, so that they can be immediately used and reused across numerous cases across many functions and verticals, and our technology allows our companies to deliver powerful enterprise level function specific solutions that take one tenth (1/10th) or one twentieth the development time to develop using our prebuilt templates, modules and platforms. These can then be combined, integrated with any third party legacy system, smart devices or sensors and can all be customized with no code excel or wordpress like visual interfaces (no programming skills required) which can allow us to deliver highly functional, secure, stable, scalable and robust, highly mature and enterprise level solutions at speeds 20 to 100 times faster than our enterprise level software competitors. Our low code development engines allow us to build additional modules at a fraction of the time and our no code implementation of environment allows us to provide perfect fit solutions based on these modules at light speed, when compared to traditional application development, while still maintaining enterprise level quality and maturity of what is being delivered..
Chosen Ventures Projects
Inspection, Maintenance and Reporting Mobile Workforce Solutions
ClickAnt thrives on helping companies grow and reach their goals by improving the efficiency of their (mobile) workforce, their tasks and working time through the design and development of cutting edge SAAS technology software.
At ClickAnt we develop intelligent software solutions for companies where inspections are a critical part of their business. When managing inspections, tasks and associated activities is a critical part of your company's key success criteria then we have it covered with our Mobile & Web apps. Simple, Powerful, Cost Effective Inspection & Reporting software.
Cross Platform Solutions at the Speed of Thought. No Code Technologies is currently serving hundreds of high profile enterprise level customers across 30 industries on 4 continents in 8 languages. NCT is working with a number of highly experienced C level executives and successful entrepreneurs, with significant enterprise level sales experience to launch a number of vertical focused subsidiaries across a number of geographic locations and country specific "localization focused" plays. From NCT Manufacturing and NCT Energy to NCT France and NCT Scandinavia, we are delivering highly focused and highly valuable solutions led by experts who can maximize the high level of value we can deliver to them to grow and to promote successful enterprise b2b focused software SaaS product and service focused ventures across the globe.
Rapid Low-Code Development delivers functionality at the speed of prototyping tools while rivaling best-of-breed platforms
Robust Mature Applications offer our customers highly scalable, secure, functional and robust solutions based on years of deep tech R&D
No Code Implementation perfect-fit department focused solutions evolve with no programming into enterprise intelligence engines
Intagrateable & Interoperable Apps work out of the box with all of our other modules and can be integrated with any legacy system within hours
TakeMyCar.com is a powerful patent pending app that lets you have your car picked up from your home, from your place of business, from the street where it is parked or from the airport. Your car can be washed, fixed or parked. You can have your oil changed, or tune up done. You can have your car returned and delivered to you at any place at any time. ChosenVentures is currently partnered with an experience team of automotive industry experts and has brought on board a team of experienced marketing and field operations experts to take TakeMyCar to te next level.
The powerful NoCodeTechnologies.com field operations management platform is the backbone of TakeMyCar, that allows our team to manage third party and internal TakeMyCar.com service providers. Please stay tuned for more, or contact us for more information about how you can participate in this or in one of our other projects.
Focusing On High Value Solutions
RemainFound.com / (KidHook) is being designed for parents to prevent kidnappings, and to keep kids and other family members safe from danger. It is being designed in a partnership with a group of former Navy Seals and other Special Forces team members who have rescued over 200 kids from kidnappings and understand first hand the dangers that parents face in the US alone, and even more so internationally.
CallUpdate.com is a powerful engine available to companies employing field service technicians to service their customers across numerous industries from fixing elevators to cleaning out grease traps in restaurants. It allows the consumers to see where the technician / repair person is in the field and allows company managers and dispatchers to have full control over their field operations. The service can also be configured to manage field sales and field customer service and can be available both to private companies and to municipalities and government agencies to manage their in field service providers and inspectors.
DeliveryMaker.com is a powerful platform that helps delivery companies manage all of their vehicles, messengers / delivery personnel and to have full control over all of their pick ups, deliveries, warehousing and getting packages from start to its final destination while being aware of everything happening with the package in real time. The platform can also be made available to consumers and can be integrated with other messenger, Postal Services and other package delivery companies to improve speed and a companies ability to deliver its packages faster and cheaper.
UnHazard.com is currently designing a number of apps for the manufacturing, the construction, energy and other industries that can be used by Safety Directors and Safety Managers to report, investigate, prevent and remove accidents and hazards. It is being spearheaded by a former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor in charge of OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and the former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Energy.
SmartOilGas.com is a nonprofit think-tank, currently led and managed by ConocoPhillips' Chief Economist Helen Currie and focuses on solving major issues for the oil and gas industry. SmartOilGas.com technology is currently being used to service Shell Oil to prevent disasters, to improve safety and to improve the way in which oil and gas companies manage their people, their facilities and their equipment in the field.
BuildingDaddy.com helps building managers, construction companies, shopping center, residential, commercial and industrial buildings to manage their buildings and their communities. BuildingDaddy.com helps building owners manage tenant services and relations with their tenants, helps them handle their vendors and service providers,and to monitor and to manage all of their assets.
MetroAssets.com is a marketplace designed for municipalities, government agencies, utility companies and large asset heavy enterprises to share and to utilize each others assets. Our platforms and tools can visualize and predict which assets are being underutilized and allows enterprises to generate a significant income monetizing underutilized assets, equipment and employees.
EquipGrid.com provides tools and apps to manage large and small Equipment and physical assets both within your buildings and out in the field. How often have you needed access to one of your items, and realizing that you do not know where it is and which one of your hundreds of thousands of employees took it with them, and if it is currently being used or is just sitting idly at a customer site gathering dust.
DigitalWorkLog.com provides tools and apps to use the employees phones and other devices to create and to enhance the digital work log for every employee. Make sure they are logging in at the right time, from the right place, and that they are where they are supposed to be, and are doing what they are supposed to do at all times.
CarWork.com: A mobile mechanic provides significant value to car owners as the car repair services are brought right to the customers place of work, residence or to where the vehicle is, and this is extremely useful and convenient, especially in the case of a vehicle that doesn't start or has a problem that needs to be addressed before it is driven. In many cases, a mobile mechanic enables car owners to save money on towing and expensive mechanic storage fees as the vehicle can be fixed right in their back yard.
The PickUpBlood.com technology currently services a number of blood labs, doctor offices and hospitals, around the New York / New Jersey area. PickUpBlood.com offers diagnostic laboratories, blood labs, and hospitals a full suite of products to manage medical package pick up, delivery, distribution, storage and logistics. Manage your trucks and drivers, manage your packages, see your packages and assets in the field.
BNBCrew.com is designed to create a marketplace for people serving the bed and breakfast service market. It will be a marketplace and a management platform for BNB and Hotel staff who are available to help hotel and BnB owners manage their apartments, houses and rentals.
SellNowApp.com delivers a powerful technology, that allows realtors and home / real estate owners to create online listings on the MLS, and on various other classified and real estate marketing platforms for their properties automatically with a push of a single button. This is a game changer as it saves literally hours of work preparing and uploading information about the property, and improves the ability to sell. Sell more, work less.™
CTRLHELPER.com provided Skilled Supplemental Staff and Advanced AI Monitoring & Enhanced Operations Solutions Provided Worldwide. Use the CTRLHelper.com marketplace to hire skilled staff or use our tools and our platform to monitor your newly hired or your existing staff and to improve your organizations efficiency and effectiveness
CTRLGigs ControlGigs.com™ is a simple classifieds web site offering people a way to find other people able to help them with various tasks (hiring for a short-term or odd jobs, or all types of out of the office jobs.). ControlGigs.com™ has developed numerous tools that can help employers receive real time information on what is happening with the tasks they need completed.
ScanFixer.com is a powerful tool that helps you to manage large amounts of scanned documents. It automatically identifies where each document starts and begins and separates them into separate files and provides each file a unique name that is related to the main text and information contained in the file. It scans the documents and "reads" it using various OCR means, and makes it easily and quickly searchable by various keywords that appear in the document including the name of the individual or entity that is identifies in the document and various other search terms.
ManageBuilders.com provides tools and apps for construction companies and real estate developers to improve the ways in which they manage their contractors, their employees, their assets and their materials. We speed up and improve all processes and functions, allow real time tracking of all of your employees. We empower all of your employees allowing them to complete more work in less time, and help you to monitor each of your projects insuring you can deliver every project on time and on budget, and in many cases you will be able to deliver many of your projects for less than the allocated budget and significantly ahead of schedule.
PrPare.com is currently being spearheaded by the former Commission of Emergency Management of the City of New York, the former Mayor of Philadelphia Michael Nutter and by the Adjunct General of Emergency Management and Preparedness of the state of Maryland. In a partnership with FinestGov.com, a powerful field operations and emergency management engine currently being utilized by 12 cities, 37 government agencies and numerous high profile enterprises like Shell Oil and Mivne, one of the largest real estate holding companies in the world, we are developing new ways to help municipalities, companies, and organizations to prepare for emergencies and disasters, and to be able to recover quickly from any disaster or emergency.
LinkedHotel.com technology is currently servicing a number of luxury hotels including the entire Dan Group of hotels (King David Hotel in Jerusalem, The Den in Bangalore, India and 30+ luxury hotels, training and convention centers. LinkedHotel.com is automating & Significantly Improving Management & Supervision of Security, Maintenance, Housekeeping, Guest Services, F&B, Entertainment, HR, Training, Marketing and more for HOTELS, CASINOS, SHOPPING CENTERS & PROPERTY OWNERS with "real time knowledge, unique features, hands off management and supervision & total control"
GreatCitizenGame.com (in a partnership with GreatCitizen.com) In Field Games that are designed to help individuals improve their communities and to lower tensions among people that see themselves as being on different sides of an issue. The GreatCitizenGames are designed to help build bridges among people, to improve the way to do things while having fun. The platform allows celebrities and politicians to unite around a common cause such as building a new sports facility for young underprivileged kids in a rural location or a homeless shelter in an urban area. Volunteers can unite about teaching about arts or handing out meals, or to explore an area and learn about its history, and numerous other worthwhile activities and issues.
The GreatCitizenApp.com (in a partnership with GreatCitizen.com) is a "Craigslist" like platform for connecting community members for each other helping each other protect their kids, help fix a a tire on the side of the road, help keep each other safe if they are being attacked and to make new friends within your communities and neighborhoods. The platform also allows individuals to report various issues and problems including potholes, burglaries and crime, broken and dilapidated conditions in a building in their neighborhood and numerous other issues. The citizen becomes "the owner" of this issue allowing them to be notified of progress as it is made by the city, the company or other responsible parties.
HelpWithHelp.com provides domestic help and sophisticated tools to help manage the hiring, the training and the management of domestic help. HelpWithHelp.com tools also help to empower the domestic employees to manage the households more efficiently and more effectively.
More Coming Soon
Chosen Ventures Tools & Technology
Changing the World
Empower Improvements Foundation
ChosenVentures.com supports the Empower Improvements Foundation (www.EmpowerImprovements.org)
Empower Improvements Foundation is a nonprofit foundation focused on bringing about “Significant Improvements” in the way companies, cities, communities and governments are managed and operated, and to drastically improve the quality of life for all people
FreeCarWork.com offers nonprofits, schools, veterans, the unemployed, young families, the elderly and other undeserved or struggling individuals, communities and organizations free car work and car repair services, to keep them on the road, so that they can get to their next interview, and to keep them from getting stranded on the road. FreeCarWork.com is an Empower Improvements Foundation project.
www.FreeInspector.com provides tools and services for homeowners, car owners, business owners, schools and a number of other consumer, private sector and government markets, and industries, offering them free inspector services and tools that helps people, companies, agencies and organizations to become safer and more secure and to manage, monitor and to empower their inspectors and their field customer service and sales experts in the field. FreeInspector.com is an Empower Improvements Foundation project.
RemainFound.com aka (KidHook) is being designed for parents to prevent kidnappings, and to keep kids and other family members safe from danger. It is being designed in a partnership with a group of former Navy Seals and other Special Forces team members who have rescued over 200 kids from kidnappings and understand first hand the dangers that parents face in the US alone, and even more so internationally. RemainFound.com is an Empower Improvements Foundation project.
Team
With team members located in New York, the Silicon Valley, Boston, Washington DC, Israel, India, Germany and the UK, and with access to one of the largest armies of proven entrepreneurs and enterprise sales leaders we have a powerful presence worldwide, allowing us to easily expand into new markets and into new verticals globally while developing, acquiring, managing and partnering with a number of powerful brands, products and companies. Our team has worked with most of the Tier 1 VC's around the globe and has deep connections with private equity, Family Offices, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Institutional Banks, Wealth Managers, and Corporate Venture Partners around the globe, and expects to deliver extraordinary results both to our limited partners and to our external partners.
ChosenVentures.com and the The NoCodeTechnologies.com Labs entrepreneurial community consists of a number of successful serial entrepreneurs, leaders and
investors, who have been able to achieve significant sales and have participated in nearly one hundred successful exits
Michael Gitelmaker
General Partner
Dr. Ralf Köster
Former CEO of Bartec, German Entrepreneur of the Year
Oliver Ahrens
President Pan Asia, President EMEA, Acer
Paolo Colella
Executive VP, CEO(India) for Ericsson
Erik Preisser
CEO ClickAnt, Head of Sales, Avast
Andreas Berthold-van der Molen
Director, Infor; Director, Microsoft
Eric Stonier
Global Vice President for Experian, Global Director, HP
Dr. Dirk Leising
SVP & VP Sales & VP for Airports and Automotive, Siemens AG
Joerg Jung
EVP & GM EMEA, Infor, SVP, Chief of Staff, SAP
Laird Popkin
CTO, Heart, Sothebys, NewsCorp; Sold Pando to Microsoft
Michael Nutter
Mayor of Philadelphia; President, US Conference of Mayors
Lt. General (Ret) Joseph DiSalvo
Dpt. Commander, U.S. Southern Command
Maj. Gen. Linda Singh
MD, Accenture; Adj. General, Maryland
Marvin Sambur
Former Asst. Secretary of the Air Force, CEO, ITT Defense
Helen Currie
Chief Economist at ConocoPhillips
Team Highlights
Laird Popkin is the CTO at Chosen Ventures and the NoCodeTechnologies Labs
Laird Popkin, is the former CTO and co-founder of Pando Networks, a P2P media distribution company, backed by
Intel Capital, BRM Capital and Wheatley Partners, and acquired by Microsoft after Laird grew it to 140M users, and
that replaced the P2P technology used by Xbox One and Windows 10, is spearheading ChosenVentures.com and the
NoCode Technologies Labs.
A highly experienced CTO, visionary and a technology leader, Laird is well known and well regarded by the
technology community, and has built and has simultaneously led numerous successful product development teams
across a number of large enterprises.
Laird has previously served as CTO of News Corporation, Director of Digital Technology for Warner Music Group,
VP Architecture for Kaplan, and CTO of Sotheby’s Holdings. He has co-chaired and published several standards, has
strong connections to CTO’s & technology directors across numerous leading companies and has ten patents issued.
Partners
ChosenVentures is empowered by its partnership with FinestGov Labs and the NoCode Technologies Labs. Please see more at www.FinestGov.com. and at NoCodeTechnologies.com
ChosenVentures.com supports the Empower Improvements Foundation (www.EmpowerImprovements.org) to improve our world and the quality of life for billions of people, hundreds of millions of employees and to bring about a higher level of enjoyment of what is truly important in life. We believe in empowerment not hand-outs. We believe in freedom to make good choices and the ability to deliver more with less.
American Commercialization Institute's Mission is to energize national competitiveness, stimulate economic development at local, state and national levels, to identify future market winners and to assist them through an investment in advanced technology. With access to over 60,000 inventors, scientists and innovators worldwide ACI delivers access to great talent, unique and valuable projects and IP and access to government grants, contracts and numerous other resources.
Venture Fund Consortium
For over 20 years now, Venture Fund Consortium has been working with some of the largest Family Offices, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Institutional Banks, Wealth Managers, and Corporate Venture Partners around the globe, delivering significant results in private equity and venture capital investing, advisory services, M&A and technology investment strategy. Operated as an association by a number of successful fund manager, investors and entrepreneurs and backed by a number of large families and institutions VFC has worked with most of the Tier #1 venture capital firms participating in over 40+ successful exits.
About Us
Chosen Ventures focuses on doing a number of things better than our competitors. We utilize our technological know how and our powerful platforms to give us a real advantage over our competitors. We have one of the largest networks of high profile entrepreneurs and enterprise sales leaders across the globe. We have the expertise of utilizing lower cost executives, software implementers and support staff in lower cost jurisdictions like India, and have proven ourselves that we can deliver these services and value seamlessly, making our customers feel as if they are dealing with company staff located across the road from them in the US and Europe. We have participated in numerous roll up M&A plays helping smaller technology companies to grow rapidly and successfully through acquisitions, but we also have a lot of experience and know how in organic growth through enterprise sales across a number of verticals, thus giving us the advantage of being able to do both and to do so in a number of key markets globally. We have many years of experience working with government agencies and municipalities across Europe and the US, delivering significant results to our companies through government contracts, grants and other sources of non-dilutive capital. We understand the power of being local and have managed and have grown ventures successfully in most of the major markets globally, and understand the power of "being and feeling local". We have many years of experience working with top scientists, researchers and developers and have access to most of the innovative deep tech projects before they come on the radar of venture capitalists and other investors. We have experience in celebrity partnerships and entertainment industry promotions providing us with an advantage of being able to promote mass market products and services and enterprise focused brands, for less. Staying creative and being a little bit better than the competition across a number of differentiators in almost everything that we do, will allow us to deliver results far superior to our competitors allowing us to grow into one of the most successful organizations in the world, helping us to provide our limited partners with significant returns on their investments.
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