
At HalfCourt Capital we are dedicated to being the first believers in an AI founder’s vision and supporting them as they transform the world with their technology.
Our Team
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Rob May
GENERAL PARTNER
Rob May is a product engineer, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of HalfCourt Capital. The first company he built was Backupify, the world’s first cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solution for SaaS applications, growing the business to over 9,000 customers and 90 employees before being acquired by Datto. Rob went on to found Talla (acquired by Seva), Dianthus, and BrandGuard.ai, developing AI products for customer support, eCommerce, and marketing, respectively.
In his spare time Rob publishes the Investing in AI newsletter, hosts the AI Innovator’s Podcast, runs the AI Innovators Community which he founded, and is a diehard college basketball fan. Prior to founding his first company, he worked as a hardware engineer and holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Kentucky.
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Todd Earwood
GENERAL PARTNER
Todd Earwood is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits in IT services and B2B SaaS and co-founder of HalfCourt Capital. In his last company, Integrate IQ, their industry leading data integration platform connected CRM to ERP syncing over 12 billion fields per year. Todd exited that company in 2023.
After selling his last company, Todd has spent his time serving on several corporate boards and hosting events for corporate and entrepreneur leaders.In his spare time Todd is an avid tennis player, event host and proud father of two great kids. Todd writes frequently about presentations, pitch decks and repeatedly voted as the best speaker at technology events.
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Don Keyser
Investing Partner
22 Yrs CFO - Fiduciary Trust
MBA – NYU Stern
BA – PRinceton -
Neil Stanley
Venture Partner
Goldman Sachs
MBA – London Business School -
Eric Koziol
AI Partner
Top 0.5% in Kaggle
Bain, KPMG
University of Illinois -
Byron Galbraith
AI Partner
Co-Founder - Talla AI
PhD - Boston University
MS - Marquette
BS - University of Illinois Chicago -
Howard Greene
Chief Financial Officer
4x Startup CFO / COO
University of New Hampshire
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Gordon Wilson
Venture Partner
Founding CEO -Rain AI
University of Florida -
George Lin
AI Partner
Morgan Stanley
Deloitte Consulting
BS - The Wharton School -
Karim Lakhani
Advisor
Professor - Harvard Business School -
Sophie Vanderbook
Advisor
COO, IBM Research
Cornell -
Mac Thornberry
Advisor
US Congress (‘95 - ‘21)
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