Investments
11Portfolio Exits
3About Bill Boebel
Bill Boebel is a Austin TX and Blacksburg VA-based angel investor who typically invests $25K - $100K in young companies. Boebel prefers to invest in US-based seed stage web software and infrastructure startups which have low capital requirements in order to bring a minimum viable product to market. Boebel prefers to advise on product strategy and also brings a network of relationships in the cloud hosting, web infrastructure and email software industries.<br />Bill Boebel is VP of Strategy at Rackspace and is responsible for technology relationships that power many of the company's Cloud growth initiatives. Prior to Rackspace, Bill co-founded and was CTO of Webmail.us, which Rackspace acquired in 2007. As an entrepreneur, Bill played strategic as well as hands-on roles in all areas of the Webmail.us email hosting business. He built many of the company's scalable systems including the mail storage platform, anti-spam/anti-virus, support and operations software. Today, as a "Racker", Bill aims to accelerate progress in many areas of Rackspace's Cloud business including its product line, technical architectures and the company's unique culture. Bill is an active angel investor, a member of 460 Angels, as well as a mentor at DayOne Ventures, an early stage startup mentoring and funding program in Blacksburg VA.

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Latest Bill Boebel News
Apr 18, 2022
Pingboard became profitable during the COVID-19 pandemic by having the right product at the right time, said Bill Boebel its founder. “We’ve grown the business to just over $6 million in revenue,” he said. “We’ve scaled from being an org chart to being a tool for employee engagement focused on companies that are fully remote.” […]
Bill Boebel Investments
11 Investments
Bill Boebel has made 11 investments. Their latest investment was in Founderpath as part of their Debt on February 2, 2021.

Bill Boebel Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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2/16/2021 | Debt | Founderpath | $10M | Yes | 4 | |
5/7/2014 | Angel | LanternCRM | $0.25M | Yes | 1 | |
1/10/2013 | Seed | Riskpulse | $0.63M | Yes | 1 | |
10/31/2012 | Seed VC - III | |||||
5/16/2012 | Seed VC |
Date | 2/16/2021 | 5/7/2014 | 1/10/2013 | 10/31/2012 | 5/16/2012 |
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Round | Debt | Angel | Seed | Seed VC - III | Seed VC |
Company | Founderpath | LanternCRM | Riskpulse | ||
Amount | $10M | $0.25M | $0.63M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Bill Boebel Portfolio Exits
3 Portfolio Exits
Bill Boebel has 3 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Riskpulse on January 10, 2020.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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1/10/2020 | Merger | 1 | |||
Date | 1/10/2020 | ||
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Exit | Merger | ||
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Sources | 1 |
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