The 6ixth Event
Cataclysmic Capital
About
Cataclysm Is in the Name
Bam! Didn’t see that coming… Or maybe you did. We have a meteor in our logo, with a dinosaur sporting a rather quizzical look. You know, he’s contemplating the changing ecosystem.
We’re serial entrepreneurs with repeat successful exits. Turned Founder-First Investors. Sold our first startup at the last bust Q4 ‘08. Used lessons from that time to build and sell our last startup to a public company at the height of the bubble.
Understand how to build, scale and especially exit a company successfully, during change. Sweet spot is where operational experience as entrepreneurs and flat world perspective as investors overlap.
Offices in Portland, ME, and Louisville, KY, with entrepreneurial space blocks from Churchill Downs in a historic bourbon bar, named after a horse.
People
Founders with Repeat Successful Exits Turned Founder-First Investors
Melanie Rosenthal
EY Entrepreneur of the Year / Yale / Human Genome Project. Work featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, & US News / Named a CMS Innovator.
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Co-founder & CEO @ Sprigley [Acquired by Eliza, 2009]. Deal team @ Eliza [majority stake investment by Parthenon Capital, 2011]. Co-founder & CEO @ RowdMap, Inc. [Acquired by Cotiviti (COTV), 2017].
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3rd-Shift Factory Worker / College Basketball Player / Volunteer in Kazakhstan / Venture Capital at Socially Responsible Fund / High School Girls Basketball Color Commentary.
Burak Sezen
EY Entrepreneur of the Year / Bogazici University. Work featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, & US News / Named a CMS Innovator. Board Member @ Maine Center for Entrepreneurs
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Co-founder & CTO @ Sprigley [Acquired by Eliza, 2009]. Deal team @ Eliza [majority stake investment by Parthenon Capital, 2011]. Co-founder & CTO @ RowdMap, Inc. [Acquired by Cotiviti (COTV), 2017].
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PwC / Fidelity / Fluent in Turkish, German and all sorts of CS Languages.
Josh Rosenthal, PhD
EY Entrepreneur of the Year / Fulbright / PhD / Sorbonne’s Institute for Advanced Studies (EPHE) / Guest Lecturer @ Harvard, MIT, Hopkins, SXSW, etc. Work featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, & US News / Named a CMS Innovator.
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Co-founder & CSO @ Sprigley [Acquired by Eliza, 2009]. Deal team @ Eliza [majority stake investment by Parthenon Capital, 2011]. Co-founder & CSO @ RowdMap, Inc. [Acquired by Cotiviti (COTV), 2017].
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Served as Expert Advisor to OSTP, ONC, HHS, NCVHS, NCQA, Robert Wood Johnson, etc.
Portfolio
Select Funds and Investments
Blockchange
Early-Stage Blockchain
CoinFund
Cryptoassets & Blockchain
MultiCoin
Decentralized Investment
ParaFi
Blockchain & DeFi
6DAI
3D Mapping Platform
70 Million Jobs
Anti-Recidivism Workforce
Ampjar
Micro Audiences
Archipelo
Code Search
Aspireship
Career Paths
Assure
SPV Platform
Balloon
Decision Making
Begin
Idea to Production
BlockFi
Crypto Financial Platform
Braintrust
User-Controlled Talent
Captiv8
Influencer Marketing
Career Karma
Working Revolution
Contiq
Sales Content
Crash
Career Launch Platform
Cygnus-AI
AI Diagnostics
Density
Space Utilization
Double-Loop
Product Development
DroneSeed
Scaleable Reforestation
Earth AI
AI Mining
Enklu
AR Marketplace
Freeplay
Subscription Gyms
Fresh Bowl
Healthy Fast Food
Greenfield Robotics
Reimagining Agriculture
Grin
Influencer Platform
Joyne
Pre-construction Rebuilt
Juneshine
Hard Kombucha
Luk
Talent Marketplace
Marlow
Coaching Platform
Massive
Reimagining Publishing
May Mobility
Self Driving
Meowtel
Pet Service
MUD \ WTR
Adaptogenic Tea
Neyborly
Space on Demand
Parabol
Distributed Collaboration
Pared
On-Demand Shifts
Passport
Modern Shipping
Planned
Event Marketplace
Porter Road
Reimagining Food Supply
Reconnect
Anti-Recidivism Platform
Reduct
Text-Edited Video
Resolve
Reimagining Finance
Room
Personal Shared Space
ScentBox
Subscription Self Care
Shoot My Travel
Memory Marketplace
Shuttl
International Mobility
Slab
Beautiful Knowledge
Slite
Working Together
Spiro
AI for Sales
Stacks
Voice Community
The Stylist LA
Reimagining Retail
Talla
AI Automation
Tonebase
Lessons Marketplace
Torii
Easy Home Buying
Underground Cellar
Subscription Marketplace
Upward Farms
Urban Agriculture
Watchful
AI Annotation
Wellnite
Social Mental Health
Xendoo
AI Bookkeeping
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