Chris Piedmonte

Business and Technology Consultant @Impossible Dreams, LLC

💰 Investor & VC🔥 Startup Founder💸 Marketing✔️ ITBusiness OwnerExecutive Coach💼 C-level Executive👍 Sales & BizDevCEOCTOCMO🧨 ConsultingCFOAngel✨ Business OwnerCOOManaging PartnerProject Manager

With a career spanning over 40 years in engineering and executive management, Chris has extensive experience forming and nurturing technology startups, managing early-stage growth, and performing turnarounds on failing ventures. Throughout his career, Chris has developed and brought to market new technologies and products in the enterprise, SMB and consumer markets. His skill set includes leadership coaching, team building, startup venture planning, private & venture capital fundraising, business operations, hardware & software engineering management, modern engineering methodologies & product development disciplines, and customer & strategic relationship development. Chris is currently leading NeoTerra Capital, an Austin-based, special-purpose investment and startup mentoring firm focused on formation-stage ventures in a variety of industries and markets. He is currently mentoring several startup ventures in various stages of development by leading investments, consulting on strategy, serving on their corporate or advisory boards, as well as taking on fractional executive roles to fill skills gaps in the companies he is mentoring until appropriate hires can be made.

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Work Background

NeoTerra Capital LLCManaging Director

Jul. 2018Austin, Texas, United StatesNeoTerra Capital is a startup investment and advisory firm managing seed-stage investments and providing a variety of services to companies focused on new and emerging technologies in a variety of markets. Since its inception, NeoTerra Capital has invested in a variety of businesses, all of which are in alignment with the NeoTerra Capital thesis of the largest returns will always come from investing in new territories, be they technological, methodology, market or location. New territories is what NeoTerra Capital is all about.

MatchbayCo-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Apr. 2022Orlando, Florida, United StatesMatchbay is changing the way employers and candidates find talent and jobs. By using conversational AI and machine learning, Matchbay has reinvented professional talent recruiting and career management. As Chief Operating Officer, I am responsible for the overall day to day operations of the company.

ServantecGlobalCo-Founder and Board Member

Apr. 2018Austin, Texas AreaServantecGlobal is an information technology, cybersecurity and telecommunications managed service provider and help desk service dedicated to small business and work-from-home individuals. ServantecGlobal also provides digital agency services to their clients, working with them to increase their presence in social media, business forums, digital publication, and web presence to establish them as the leaders in their industries.

Monitur CorporationCo-Founder and Board Member

Apr. 2016Austin, Texas AreaMONITUR provides comprehensive services for the protection of perishable assets and inventory. These services include continuous monitoring of temperature, humidity and other environmental conditions to alert personnel when conditions are no longer within acceptable parameters. MONITUR also provides services to reduce the chances of a loss occurring, as well as contingency planning in the case of failure of HVAC, refrigeration or other systems.

Blue Fiber GroupCo-Founder, President and CEO

Apr. 2021Newark, Delaware, United StatesBlue Fiber Group is the leading company in the basalt fiber reinforcement polymer (BFRP) market for precast and cast in place concrete construction. Dedicated to the advancement of the use of basalt fiber composites in construction, the company provides educational, engineering, materials and research and development to advance the basalt composite market on a global level.

Sawmill Angel NetworkCo-Founder, Chairman and President

Jun. 2021Terre Haute, Indiana, United StatesThe Sawmill Angel Network is an angel investment group consisting of alumni, faculty and close associates of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The group was started to promote entrepreneurship amongst those affiliated with Rose-Hulman. Working in collaboration with the Sawmill Society (the Rose-Hulman group dedicated to entrepreneurship) the Sawmill Angel Network provides investment capital for Rose-Hulman affiliated startups.

Suvola CorporationCo-Founder and Board Member

Jan. 2012Austin, TexasSuvola is creating the world's first tamper-proof enterprise software platform designed and developed specifically for the emerging secure and trusted SoC-based microserver market. Based on System-on-a-Chip (SoC) technology from NXP/Freescale, these next generation secure and trusted computing platforms will be the basis of a new generation of tamper-proof information technology appliances and secure and trusted public and private cloud-based SaaS solutions. For early-adopters that benefit from first-mover advantage and companies that prefer to keep themselves appraised of new technologies, Suvola also offers consulting and engineering services to exploit the full potential of a secure and trusted computing platform. With Suvola, companies can identify key areas where secure and trusted platform technology can be leveraged, determine the specific security, economic and other values the technology brings to the enterprise, and realize those advantages.

Phantom Air Racing, IncorporatedCo-Founder and Executive Director

Jan. 2003Austin, TexasPhantom Air Racing is dedicated to the design and construction of the world's fastest racing experimental aircraft. Flying since 2003, the Phantom Biplane Racer has set world records and has dominated the National Championship Air Races for the last two decades. In my job as Executive Director, I am responsible for the promotion and fundraising to support the engineering team, support crew, pilots and other members of Phantom Air Racing during the construction of the Phantom Biplane Racer. Through commercial sponsorship, team memberships, merchandise sales, event participation, and other promotional activities, we raised the funds necessary to advance aviation technology and field the best team of air racers in the world.

NextRound.aiPartner

Feb. 2023 - Mar. 2024Greater Toronto Area, CanadaNextRound provides consulting and advisory services to ventures at the Seed and Series A stages of development. By working with NextRound, ventures greatly increase the chances of successfully raising their next round of funding at desirable terms from reputable sources of capital through North America and Europe.

United States Heterogenous Device IntegrationChief Strategy Officer and Board Member

Jul. 2020 - Jun. 2021United StatesUS HDI was founded to provide secure and trusted manufacturing of advanced semiconductor devices using the latest integration and packaging techniques for applications in critical infrastructure and national defense.

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