Scot Chisholm

Scot Chisholm (born June 15, 1981) is an American social entrepreneur who founded the software company Classy - a San Diego based social enterprise that creates fundraising tools for nonprofit organizations. Chisholm founded the company in 2006 with Pat Walsh and served as its CEO until 2021.[1][2]

Scot Chisholm
Born(1981-06-15)June 15, 1981
EducationUMass Amherst
University of Manchester
OccupationEntrepreneur, Investor, Advisor
Known forFounder of Classy, Haskill Creek Farms, Save Farmland
TitleFounder of Classy
Spouse(s)Carolyn Garner Chisholm
Children2 sons

Chisholm later founded Haskill Creek Farms, an herbal wellness company, and Save Farmland, a nonprofit that protects and promotes small farms.[3]

Early life

Chisholm was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts to Debra and Paul Chisholm. After attending Hingham High School, he graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2004 with a degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research with a Mechanical Engineering concentration.[4][5]

Career

After college, Chisholm moved to San Diego, CA and became the first employee at a pizza shop in Ocean Beach.[6] There he learned how to launch a business for the first time.

In 2004, Chisholm became a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, after he was invited to interview by an employee who visited the pizza shop. He served as a senior consultant on the Economic and Business Analysis Team from 2004 through 2007, and helped create the Lean Six Sigma practice at the firm.[7]

In 2006, Chisholm co-founded Classy, which originally started as a charity fundraising events and evolved into a fundraising platform. Chisholm and his team launched an enhanced version of the Classy platform in January 2011 and since then, Classy has helped millions of people across 300,000 individual campaigns fund over 3,000 organizations.[8] Collectively, organizations have raised over $500 million on Classy’s platform. Classy itself has raised $53 million from investors that include Bullpen Capital, JMI Equity, Mithril, and Salesforce Ventures.[9]

Chisholm also served as Board Director from 2011 to 2015 at Team Rubicon, which connects skilled military veterans with medical professionals to form teams that respond better to disaster situations.[10][11]

In addition, he also is involved in two soccer-oriented organizations. Since 2015, he has served as Board Director and Founding Investor of San Francisco City Football Club, one of the first social enterprise-based, semi-professional soccer clubs in the United States.[12] He also has been a National Advisory Board Member since early 2017 at Street Soccer USA, an organization that uses sports to improve health, education, and employment outcomes for disadvantaged Americans.[13]

Scot has won awards for his work and was named by Businessweek in 2011 as one of the top 5 most promising social entrepreneurs in America as well as one of Glassdoor’s Highest Rated CEOs of 2017 as rated by employees.[14][15]

References
  1. Twitter; Email; Facebook (2021-04-21). "San Diego startup Classy corrals $118m for software to help nonprofits with digital fundraising". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 2021-12-06. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. Trahant, Grant. "Interview with the Founder of Classy on Raising $50 Million to Build Technology That Deploys Digital Innovation Into Nonprofits - Causeartist". causeartist.com. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  3. ENGLAND, WHITNEY (2021-11-17). "Save Farmland nonprofit aims to protect agricultural land while promoting small farming". Whitefish Pilot. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  4. "Scot Chisholm: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  5. "A CEO shares the best-kept secret about startups". Business Insider. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  6. "Tacos and Tech Podcast: Scot Chisholm - CEO & Co-founder of Classy". tacosandtech.libsyn.com. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  7. "Raising Money for Nonprofits on Shoestring Budgets | College of Engineering | UMass Amherst". engineering.umass.edu. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  8. "Classy Raises $18M in Round Led by Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital | Xconomy". Xconomy. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  9. Grove, Jennifer Van (30 June 2015). "Classy raises $18M for charity crowdfunding". sandiegouniontribune.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  10. "Paul Martino, Serial Entrepreneur & VC @Bullpen Capital, investors in Marketo, Zynga, Desk.com, Udemy, etc. & Scot Chisholm, CEO of Classy & Angel Investor". Eventful. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  11. Magee, Christine. "Making Nonprofits SaaS-Savvy, Classy Raises $18 Million". TechCrunch. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  12. "Presenting Classy, Street Soccer USA, and Campaign Monitor, our 2015 jersey partners! | San Francisco City FC". sfcityfc.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  13. "Street Soccer USA | Our Boards". www.streetsoccerusa.org. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  14. Thorpe, Devin. "Classy CEO: Why Shouldn't Nonprofits Have World Class Tools?". Forbes. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  15. "Highest Rated CEOs at SMBs". Glassdoor. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
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