| Website | ryanallis.com |
| Blog | ryanallis.com |
| @ryanallis | |
| Birthplace | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Birthdate | 8/14/84 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Economics | |
| EO / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Entrepreneurial Masters Program | 2011 |
Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and social entrepreneur from North Carolina. Ryan has been an entrepreneur since he started Allis Computing at age 11 in 1995. Today, Ryan is the Co-Founder and CEO of iContact, a provider of email and social media marketing software and services. iContact has over 250 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales. iContact is a certified B Corp and uses the 4-1s CSR model to give 1% of its payroll, equity, employee time, and product back to the community. Ryan is also the founder and Chairman of Virante, a digital marketing agency based Raleigh, NC.
Ryan is an active angel investor, investing via the HumanityFund. He invests in businesses in the USA and East Africa including investments to date in Pengo Loans, VillageEnergy, ThinkImpact, EvoApp, Unblab, CityPockets, SpringMetrics, and School House. Ryan is the author of the book Zero to One Million, published by McGraw-Hill, which reached the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list.
Ryan is currently the Board Chairman for Nourish.org which uses social entrepreneurship as a tool to end global poverty. Nourish teaches entrepreneurial skills to college students and uses the profits from student businesses to partner with and invest in social entrepreneurs and community-based organizations in the developing world focused on sustainable development and eliminating extreme poverty and hunger.
Ryan was named in 2006 as one of BusinessWeek’s 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25. In 2008 he was named as Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Carolinas, In 2009 he was named as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans by the U.S. Junior Chamber. In 2010 he was named as part of the 30 Under 30 List By INC Magazine. Ryan currently serves as a member of the UN Foundation Global Entrepreneurs Council which is advising the UN Foundation on expanding how it uses digital marketing to bring awareness to its humanitarian campaigns.
Ryan attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was an economics major and a Blanchard Scholar. Ryan is a 2011 graduate of the EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| EvoApp | 10/10 | Angel | $500k | 4 |
Ryan Allis on The Big Idea.
Added: 6/15/08
