Entrepreneur
Josh Kerr is an 8x startup founder and angel investor. Josh rose to prominence in the tech world with a first-of-its kind e-signature mobile app, Zosh, which he patented and served as CEO. Zosh was acquired in 2008 by YouSendIt (now Hightail). Josh was later tapped by Amazon Web Services to leverage his visibility in the startup community to target cutting edge investment opportunities. Josh is also a trusted fixture in the venture capital community, having most recently conceptualized and launched with private funding a content marketing company, Written, where he also acted as CEO.
Josh’s first solo venture was Ideal Science, an enterprise discussion forum software whose breakthrough security features caught the attention of tech giants including Microsoft. Ideal Science was also trusted by clients including CNN, the FBI, GigaOm and the U.S. Department of Defense. Ideal Science also enjoyed success in the gaming community, where market leader Bungie Studios partnered with Ideal Science to create a white-labeled version for the launch of Halo 2.
Startup Mentor
Josh Kerr is very active in the Austin startup community through his roles with Capital Factory and Techstars, where he advises fledgling startups to success. He joined Capital Factory as a partner in 2009 and has been awarded Capital Factory mentor of the year for three consecutive years for mentoring startups including for example
Josh joined Techstars Austin in its inaugural year which has also led to numerous advisory roles. For example, Josh served on the Advisory Board at Patient.io which was subsequently acquired by Athena Health.
Josh is available at office hours at both Capital Factory and Techstars.
Angel Investor
Josh Kerr’s investments are available on Angel List. He participates in various Capital Factory funds in addition to his participation as a founding venture partner at NextGen.
Josh has a Computer Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Currently
- Angel investor
- Founding Partner NextGen Angels (2016)
- Capital Factory Mentor/Partner/EIR (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
- Techstars Mentor (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Greatest Hits
- 8x startup exec/founder
- DemoGod Winner (Spring 2010)
- Co-founder/CEO at Written (VC backed by LiveOak)
- Co-Founder/CEO Zosh (acquired by YouSendIt now HighTail December 2010)
- Austin Technology Incubator alum (2009)
- Patent: System and method for collecting a signature using a smart device #12/555,667 View on Google Patents
- Global startup team at Amazon Web Services
Fax dance
This is video footage was taken at Demo Conference in 2010 where Josh smashed a fax machine on stage with a baseball bat.
Recent blog articles
Josh Kerr blogs about a variety of topics relating to his passions for technology, physics and mathematics.
- How to move your blog from Medium to WordPress
- Proof that the Universe will repeat itself
- How canaries protect us from the snooping US Government
- Medium needs to support Latex for math and science
- Mind blown: the fast growing hierarchy for laymen — aka enormous numbers
- Who can name the biggest number contest
- 9/11 from the eyes of a New Yorker
- Top 10 greatest music artists of all time.
- Donald Trump’s valet guy thinks Trump is in over his head
- The Chromebook Pixel is Medium’s best writing platform
Press
Josh Kerr has received press over the course of his career. Here are a sampling of those articles.
- Capital Factory Forbes top 10 incubator
- Tech Crunch Inside Capital Factory Demo Day
- Wall Street Journal
- New York Times
- Tech Crunch
- The Ticker Show
- Inman News
- EbizQ
- Fox News
- Wall Street Journal
- New York Times
- Tech Crunch
- ABJ Entrepreneur
- Venture Beat
- San Jose Business Journal
- ReadWriteWeb
- CBS BNET: 5 Amazing iPad Business apps
- Austin Business Journal
- USA Today
- Mashable
- ABA Journal
- Austin American Statesman
- Lifehacker
- Demo Conference
- CNET
- Engadget
- Macworld
- Download Squad
- Revision 3
- TUAW
- Mobile Crunch
- Gizmodo
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