About Us
Our Founder
As the founder of Speedring Capital, Don Gottwald brings more than 30 years of experience leading organizations and teams to success. His excitement for growth and charting new paths has landed him in positions that span serving as COO at a company of 18,000+, tackling the challenges of intrapreneurship, and rolling up his sleeves at a small retailer.
If you get to spend time with Don, you’ll often find him talking about his experience applying what he calls his 'playbook’. Each success was built off of these fundamentals; get good people, make sure they understand the mission, have the right tools - and let them do their jobs.
Don is now turning his experience, network, and resources to helping other businesses, owners, and leaders grow. In addition to serving as an advisor and board member to various organizations, Don looks to apply his experiences with strategy, team building, and leadership to acquire and operate privately-held companies.
Our Investors
The investors behind Speedring Capital bring 75-plus years of professional experience across a broad spectrum of business disciplines. Our entrepreneurs have held many C-Suite positions, including CEO, COO, CFO, and CMO, in a variety of organizations, building deep expertise in operations, sales, marketing, finance, and engineering along the way.
Whether serving as operators or advisors, the Speedring team brings a full complement of leadership experiences to ensure a successful transition for your company and bright future for your business and team.
Investments
Partners
The Duke Angel Network is uniquely dedicated to connecting, supporting, and cultivating the Duke entrepreneurial community. In addition to providing capital, we actively match alumni expertise with portfolio companies to drive growth.
We use our ‘Grassroots Strategy’ framework to help embed strategic thinking as an organizational capability and unlock the growth potential of your business.
We are a firm of smart marketers. Our sweet spot is working with companies at a tipping point of growth. We help companies tell a clear story and build a predictable marketing and sales engine.