3x founder

Thomas Hornbeck

Entrepreneur | Investor | Former CTO | Interested in AI, SaaS, and Exceptional Founders

Co-founder

HomeRoom· Winter 2022🇻🇳 Vietnam

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @thomashornbeck

2022Managing Director Ethos Foundry· Ethos Fund

Founder · since 2011

Company

Ethos Fund

Role

Managing Director Ethos Foundry

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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HomeRoom

We Rent Your Property by the Room. You earn 50% more Rent.

Winter 2022

Experience

Career

Stabilize.vc
CEO · 2019 – Present
2019
HomeRoom
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CTO · 2021 – 2025
2021
Link Brokerages
Chief Technology Officer · 2021 – 2025
2021
Kind Capital
Venture Partner · 2020 – 2024
2020
Techstars
Mentor · United States · 2021 – 2024
2021
Ethos Fund
Managing Director Ethos Foundry · 2022 – 2023
2022
Distynct
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CTO · 2019 – 2022
2019
FarmlandFinder
CTO · Des Moines, Iowa Area · 2016 – 2020
2016
University of Iowa
Visiting Assistant Professor · Iowa City, Iowa Area · 2016 – 2017
2016
OmniLife - formerly HealthTech Solutions, Inc.
Chief Technology Officer · 2016 – 2017
2016
Compass Education Group
VP of Engineering · Beverly Hills, CA · 2015 – 2016
2015
Got It, Inc.
Co-founder
Co-Founder and Director · Menlo Park, California · 2011 – 2015
2011
Studio 9+
Entrepreneur in Residence · Menlo Park, CA · 2013 – 2014
2013
University of Iowa
Research Assistant Computational Epidemiology · 2011 – 2013
2011
University of Iowa
Teaching Assistant · 2009 – 2011
2009
Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (vscse.org)
Teaching Assistant · 2010
2010
VIDA
Software Engineer · 2006 – 2009
2006
PhoneFactor, now a Microsoft Company
Software Engineer · Overland Park, KS · 2004 – 2005
2004

Bio

I'm a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple tech startups, including GotIt! (EdTech), Distynct (AgTech), and Homeroom (Coliving/PropTech) YC W'22. PhD (abd) in Computer Science, dropped out in the 5th year to start my first company. I moved to Silicon Valley in 2013 and built an EdTech app that ended up #2 in Education on the AppStore. I've been an angel investor in a few startups Jobhop (HR Tech company in Vietnam) and LegalQ (TechStars '21), and Venture Partner at Kind Capital.