Ventures
Businesses I've started from nothing and grown with my own hands.
HID SIPS LLC
Owner, Founder & CEO
HID SIPS designs and manufactures products with one mission: hydrate better. Its first product, the HydraLamp™, makes sure you never wake up without water again. It's a modern table lamp that discreetly stores, chills, filters, and dispenses water at the push of a button.
I founded the company solo, filed a patent, and built the MVP. Since then I've brought on design partners and sweat-equity co-founders to take it further.
- $50K+
- Lifetime revenue
- ~$20K
- Raised on Kickstarter
- 6 figures
- Valuation in first funding round
Lady Bird Lake Rentals LLC
Co-founder, February 2021 to July 2022
A watercraft rental company in Austin, Texas that started with nothing more than a 14-foot jon boat. We reinvested rental profits into a fleet of paddleboards and a custom trailer to transport and store them.
We added revenue by leasing boards to instructors for paddleboard yoga, fitness, meditation, and pilates. I secured partnerships with the largest yoga studio chain in Texas, several meditation studios, a paddleboard certification school, and lakefront residences and pools that hosted classes.
My partner and I sold the business to a private investment group for a profit in July 2022.