Sedale Turbovsky

attended Sacramento State University, where his studies focused on economics, political science, and international development. After an extended gap year, he pursued a career as an international adventure guide working in Argentina, Chile and various counties in Europe for five years. During this time he launched a startup studio, Guerrilla Digital.

Guerrilla Digital is a collection of leaders, designers and builders focused on enabling large-scale societal improvements. Their mission is to establish and grow sustainable solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems and inefficiencies by bringing cutting-edge technology to late-adopting industries. Guerrilla Digital partners with investors, advisors and government leaders to help entrepreneurs build out product concepts, test business models, find market fit, connect with difficult-to-reach public/private networks, and achieve the discipline required for growth.

In 2012 Sedale and his team were engaged to launch carbonBLU, a machine learning SaaS product for the transportation sector, backed by an emissions testing technology. Sedale lead the team to raise $500k in seed capital while supporting day to day operations and product development. While at carobnBLU Sedale built at 2.5M dollar pipeline in government sales, won the people choice award of the CleanTech Open Accelerator and was accepted into and completed Impact Venture Capital’s accelerator program.

In 2018, Sedale served as CEO of carbonBLU for a year, eventually exiting with the Guerrilla Digital team to start OpenGrants, a SaaS company focused on connecting startups to non-dilutive capital. As a founder of OpenGrants, Sedale helped source the founding team, secured pre-seed and seed capital, while engaging strategic partners like AWS and Momentum.