About Us
Formed in May of 2010 in Austin, TX, Hurricane Party was one of only five companies selected from a pool of several hundred for Capital Factory’s prestigious seed incubator program.
After being in the AppStore for only a week, Apple featured Hurricane Party in “What’s Hot” in social-networking.
The Team
René J. Pinnell - CEO & Co-Founder
Eric Katerman - Software Engineer & Co-Founder
A.T. Fouty - Software Engineer
Richard McClellan - Software Engineer
Advisors
Kip McClanahan is a partner at Silverton Ventures as well as an active angel investor. As an operator Kip has raised over $100MM in capital and his companies have returned nearly $800MM in realized gains.
Samy Aboel-Nil is President & COO of Tippr, a daily-deal site and competitor to Groupon. Samy has founded and sold numerous companies including MessageOne, which was acquired by Dell in 2008.
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