Pav*r
Year founded: 2020
Number of employees: 2
Founders: Jessica Bledsoe, CEO, and Adam Bledsoe, CTO
Amount of capital raised: $130,000
Notable investors: BGA, KEF, CSC
Explain what your company does: Pav*r is a time management application that provides a way to collect and generate valuable insights and analytics from your digital calendar data so you can see exactly where your time is going and make better decisions about how to spend it.
What are some major milestones in the company’s history?
- CEO named 2019 Women in Tech Rising Star
- 2020 Venture Shark Finalists and KY 270 Pitch Competition winners
- March 2021 launched MVP in Google Marketplace as Google Calendar add-on
- October 2021 Accepted into the Awesome Inc Fellowship
- December 2021 17,000+ users acquired organically
What is your company working on right now?
We just launched our subscription-based model for the app and released a huge product update. Our current focus is on converting free users into paid users and acquiring new paying users.
What’s on the horizon for your company in 2022?
We’ll begin fundraising our seed round in Spring 2022
Why grow your company from Kentucky?
We are born and raised in Kentucky and are passionate about the people and the local economies in the commonwealth. We believe Kentucky can be a hub for innovation and want to be a contributor to that ecosystem.