October 27, 2020: Harlan Beverly

Vice President of Engineering, Beneplace, and Lecturer, Texas State University

Harlan T. Beverly, Ph.D., is a 4-time CEO and 3-time startup founder with special focus in the consumer technology space. He is currently VP of Engineering at Beneplace, LLC and a lecturer at Texas State University.

In addition to his 21 published technology patents, Harlan has written numerous published articles and published two books: https://amzn.to/377aR3b. Previously, Harlan was a lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin where he taught entrepreneurship and helped run the Texas Venture Labs.

Harlan specializes in fundraising and growth marketing for consumer, health, and technology companies. Harlan has founded three B2C startups and sold two of them: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. and Karmaback, Inc. Harlan was also CEO of Key Ingredient, Inc., which he sold in 2018.

Harlan is not actively investing, but he has experience as an angel investor and a venture investor and is an active mentor at Capital Factory in Austin, TX.

He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio Northern University, an M.B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin, and his PhD in Business from Oklahoma State University.