Our Investors

Lauren Bass – Director, LaunchVT

Before Lauren Bass became director of LaunchVT in 2021, she advised business owners through the Vermont Small Business Development Center, focusing on family business, succession, sustainability, and early-stage startup strategies. Prior to that, she started a business with two co-founders, with initial funding sourced through a pitch competition. Bass is also an affiliated researcher at the Family Business Institute at the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business.

“One of the best parts of my work is accelerating and supporting outstanding, innovative founders like Jason and watching startups like Logic scale. The enterprise will stop at nothing less than reshaping the construction industry to address the most pressing housing crisis of the last several generations. Jason’s resiliency as an entrepreneur and natural ability to recognize the value of building industry partnerships to solve critical pain points while generating future revenue pipelines are emblematic of the quality of this novel business. I’m excited to see where Logic’s success as a market disruptor will take this game-changing technology.”

Jim Feinson – Former CEO, Gardener’s Supply Company

For over 20 years, Jim Feinson was President and CEO of Gardener’s Supply Company, the country’s largest direct to consumer gardening affinity business. Since 2020, Jim has coached several startups through LaunchVT, an accelerator aimed at helping outstanding, early-stage, Vermont-based startups with world class business curricula and mentoring. Through LaunchVT, Jim met the Logic team in the Spring of 2023 and has been advising it ever since.

“It has been wonderful to help the Logic team grapple with a huge mission: nothing less than evolving an industry into 21st century business practices. Start-ups usually and naturally focus on product differentiation and product-market-fit. Jason has all that, but the agenda at Logic is at the scale of creating a new market, empowered by unique public-private partnerships. The company is driven by resourcefulness, tenacity, and ambitious vision.”

Andrew Goldberg – General Contractor

Andrew Goldberg is a contractor in the Boston area with decades of experience in the residential construction space.

Bryan Lynch – Modular Manufacturing Consultant

Bryan has an extensive 30-year career in the modular building industry. He has held or shaped almost every role in a contemporary modular production facility, including design, engineering, production management, quality assurance, general management, and operations management. Bryan has had the privilege of training and/or working with some of the most recognizable teams in US Offsite Construction. His consulting firm, 3 in 1 Solutions, is one of the most sought-after in the country.

“The Logic experiment, with Jason’s leadership, is unlike anything I’ve helped realize in my 30 years of modular industry. Jason continues to push the boundaries of what is possible–not only from one company’s point of view, but in regularly asking, ‘Will this drive change throughout the modular space?’”

Andy Shepard – Real Estate Entrepreneur & Management

Andy is a semi-retired real estate developer and property manager. He’s also a self-described want-to-be-full-time surf and ski bum.

“I invested in Logic because this group of folks is willing to roll up their sleeves and test their ideas in full prototypes. I like to see Logic’s form of investigation–thinking through steps and then taking care to learn from what the tools and building materials are saying back. You can see this team balancing the myriad pressures of the construction industry in each step they take. It is truly inspiring to see firsthand.” 

Jacob Smith – Co-Founder, Humans of the Internet VC

Jacob Smith’s professional experience involves digital infrastructure, internet marketing, sales, arts management, and classical music. A love of entrepreneurship inspired Jacob and his brother Zac to co-found digital infrastructure startup Packet in 2014, subsequently acquired by Equinix in 2020. Before stepping away in 2023 to co-found Humans of the Internet with Zac, Jacob helped to integrate and then scale what became Equinix Metal, focusing primarily on customer success, product-led growth, startups, developers, and open source. Now Humans of the Internet funds innovators whose work is at the intersection of physical and digital, broadens the conversation to include new and diverse voices, and fosters sustainability and positive impact on the world.

“We can’t continue to build the way we have for the last 100 years and expect different results. Logic’s combination of approaches promises to be very different. Its modular, offsite manufactured solutions can help make comfortable and eco-friendly housing available to millions of people around the world, and thousands closer to home. Its software-oriented delivery system promises to enable smart builders to realize more homes with less toil. It is exciting, but not at all surprising, to see this new venture starting right here in Vermont.”

Josh Traeger – Commercial Real Estate

Josh has decades of experience in both entrepreneurial ventures and commercial real estate. Currently managing the Real Estate portfolio for a nationally-recognized amusement platform, Josh regularly crosses the county investigating market viability for amusement centers in major US cities. 

“I originally invested in Logic for the double-barreled vision it represents through bringing up-market real estate development jobs to smaller communities while also providing a viable solution to the affordable housing crisis. Since then, I have loved watching this team grow. They display a great knack for bringing in the right talent at key moments to help the enterprise reach its next step.”

Randall Walter – Offsite Construction Designer/Builder/Developer

Formerly a company steward and the lead architect of the design/build firm Bensonwood, Randall’s focus for the last two decades has been incorporating strategies to use predefined components with 3D software for design and construction. The result is an open-built design system that enables flexible and rapid design exploration with predictable results. He champions design/build approaches, mass customized strategies, parametric design, and digital fabrication. Randall’s current focus is transforming land and buildings to reach their highest and best outcomes. 

“It’s clear that offsite and modular practices are the only viable path for US Construction in the 21st Century. The on-site practices of the 20th Century are growing increasingly immoral: too much waste, carbon, and debt are being handed to the next generation. I invested in Logic because they understand these imperatives and are building the partnerships and offsite methods to innovate at the speed our communities need.” 

Jim Verzino – President, FoodMoneyStuff

At FoodMoneyStuff, Jim supports busy food entrepreneurs with financial, systems, and management expertise. Under his direction, food accelerator Windham Grows won the 2019 Innovation and Inspiration Award from the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. Previously, Jim was a software consultant helping some of the largest food packaging companies in the world optimize systems and reduce waste. Jim was also the cofounder and Vice-President of Ruralogic, Inc, where he launched rural innovation programs to defend against continuous offshoring of technical jobs with an aim to return those jobs to the United States by training and employing  populations living in rural U.S. communities. Jim is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and the Marlboro College Graduate School of Business. 

“Innovation is hard. It takes both intelligence and perseverance. Without both, one ends up either frustrated or exhausted. The folks who founded Logic Building Systems have the right blend of smarts and resourcefulness to help innovate in the construction space. Our communities need so many more of these bold startups to build our way out of this affordable housing crisis.”