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thumb Wil Schroter is a serial entrepreneur born in Connecticut and currently living in Columbus, Ohio. He has started 7 companies since 1995 and sold 4 of them to date.〔(Virtucon Ventures )〕〔(Vator - Wil Schroter )〕 He is currently the CEO and co-founder of crowdfunding platform, Fundable. ==Career== Wil founded his first company, Blue Diesel, as a 19-year-old student at the Ohio State University.〔(Tae Radio )〕 Three years later, he merged Blue Diesel with inChord Communications where, as CEO and Board Member, he helped grow the company to over $700 million in capitalized billings within 5 years.〔(Inventiv )〕 In 2003, the company was purchased and renamed inVentiv, which now generates over $2 billion annually and employs 13,000 professionals worldwide.〔(Columbus Dispatch )〕 Following the sale of Blue Diesel, Wil founded Virtucon Ventures, an idea-stage incubator for Web startups. There he helped conceive and launch a number of well known companies including Swapalease.com, Unsubscribe.com (sold to TrustedID), Startups.co, and Fundable.com. Virtucon’s portfolio of companies has attracted more than a dozen prominent venture funds, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Founders Fund, Bessemer Ventures, and Charles River Ventures.〔(Virtucon Ventures )〕 In 2012, Wil’s passion for startups came full circle with the launch of Fundable.com, the largest business crowdfunding platform.〔Fundable - Wikipedia〕 Within two years of launch, Fundable drove $140 million in funding commitments to startups in every industry.〔(Crowdfund Insider )〕 Fundable has expanded quickly with the acquisition of Launchrock.com and now serves over 500,000 startups who have attracted 10 million backers, investors, and supporters. The sites within the Fundable network now serve over 15 million visitors annually.〔(TechCrunch )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wil Schroter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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