Josh Kerr Email Address

Founding Venture Partner

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Josh is a serial entrepreneur who has founded bootstrapped and VC backed startups. He has several successful outcomes including a high profile exit with Zosh in 2010. Josh is also a mentor, advisor and board member for other Austin area startups. Josh is currently entrepreneur in residence at Capital Factory. Previously was on the startup team at Amazon where he worked with startups, incubators and accelerators on behalf of AWS. Josh was also co-founder and CEO at Written, a venture backed content marketing company with a unique approach to building bigger and better audiences for brands. Prior to Written, Josh co-founded and was CEO of Zosh, an award winning suite of mobile apps for filling and signing documents which was acquired by HighTail in 2010. Josh launched the company at DEMO conference where he took top prize with a presentation that included smashing a fax machine on stage with a baseball bat. Prior to Zosh he founded Ideal Science which created popular community software for Windows. A partnership with Microsoft made Ideal Science the sole provider of community software for all Microsoft game studios including Bungie Studios the creator of the popular Halo series. Ideal Science community software powers billions of discussions on high profile communities including CNN, GigaOm, the FBI and US Department of Defense. Josh is also an active angel investor, a partner at Capital Factory, and a mentor at Techstars. Josh has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.