Barry Stamos
CEO, Founder, and Investor in Mount Pleasant, SC USA
Barry is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur turned conscious capitalist using business as a force for good.
Barry Stamos is a three-time exited founder and the CEO of Supernova, a collective of 250+ exited founders who have sold their own companies and now invest in, advise, and serve as operating partners to the next generation of builders.
Barry has built companies for 25+ years. His first Silicon Valley startup, INBOX Marketing, became Responsys, went public, and sold to Oracle for $1.6 billion. His second, Videoo, failed after four years chasing product-market fit. As a founding partner at Acxiom, he built a business unit from zero to $318 million that exited to IPG for $2.3 billion. He is also co-founder and Chief Heart Officer of 1heart, a startup studio that evolved into a human accelerator and sacred plant medicine journey for CEOs and leaders with 1,000+ alumni worldwide.
As a founding advisor, Barry has helped build category leaders. He backed Colossal Biosciences, which raised a total of $615 million to reach decacorn status within four years of launching and established the Colossal Foundation with $100 million to support habitat restoration and genetic rescue. He also backed Tuft & Needle as it bootstrapped to $250 million in ARR before merging with Serta Simmons. He served as Head of Investor Relations at Arora Project, an equity crowdfunding agency that raised $115 million-plus for startups before its exit to Republic. Barry was also the Entrepreneur in Residence at 500 Global ($2.3B AUM), one of the most active VCs globally, where he supported startups via their flagship accelerator program.
Barry has been hired as a digital transformation subject matter expert by 100+ Fortune 500 brands, including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Visa, Nike, Disney, P&G, and Santander. He is also a keynote speaker at conferences and events worldwide, sharing thought leadership and perspective on AI, the future of work, entrepreneurship, leadership, work & life transformation, health and wellness, and why evolution, love, consciousness, and collaboration are vital to solving humanity's greatest challenges and planetary problems.
Barry lives in Mount Pleasant, SC with his wife Christine and two teenage boys, Beau and Nico.