https://bestybnb.com/About BestyBnB: BestyBnB helps Domestic Violence, Mental Health, Animal Welfare, and other Social Service Agencies secure safe, temporary homes for clients’ pets during their time of crisis so they can & will seek help. Our Agency partners have called BestyBnB an innovative, confidential Airbnb for Pets. Growth & Momentum: BestyBnB officially launched in the summer of 2022. For six months prior to BestyBnB's official launch, our team worked with 7 prominent Domestic Violence Agencies in the Kansas City metropolitan area to beta-test and improve upon the software. Our momentum and growth since Q4 of 2022 is impressive. In just over 6 months, we have nearly tripled the amount of non-profit Agency partners using the BestyBnB platform, and in the past few months we have enabled our partners to provide 2,000+ SAFE NIGHTS for Clients' Pets with a 100% reunification rate. The opportunity has grown well beyond helping only Domestic Violence Agencies and we have identified over 10,000 Social Services & Animal Welfare Agencies that are desperately looking for the solution we have created. Andy Bond: Trained as an attorney and an entrepreneur by nature, Andy left a legal career in private practice at a top-ranked, national law firm to help co-found a technology startup, building enterprise software for the entertainment industry. There, he served as Vice President and General Manager, responsible for finance, operations, intellectual property, and product development, while also serving in multiple executive roles in various company-owned subsidiaries. Andy appreciates the value of a team and knows the most important component of any successful venture is its people. Using his problem-solving skills honed as a practicing attorney paired with a practical approach, Andy is driven by BestyBnB's mission to help Pets and People stay safe, connected, and together, and he enjoys the creativity required to face and solve challenges large and small. Together with his wife, Clare, three wonderful kids, Jake, Nora Jayne, & Luke, and two mischievous pups, Maude & Mabel, Andy proudly calls Kansas City home. He enjoys supporting his kids’ academic and athletic pursuits and looks for any available opportunity to spend time in the Colorado mountains. Matt Krentz: Creativity has always been at the heart of Matt's business affairs. Matt's artistic and creative endeavors laid the foundation for his recent entrepreneurial endeavors and success. Matt's latest startup, BestyBnB, helps Mental Health Organizations, Domestic Violence Agencies, and Animal Welfare Organizations secure safe, temporary foster homes for clients’ pets during their time of crisis so they can and will seek life-saving services - while maintaining that vital and powerful human-animal bond. BestyBnB is changing the culture of how Social Service Organizations think about Animal Welfare and the importance of keeping Pets with their People. The platform has been launched to help millions of Children, Abuse Survivors, Mental Health Patients and their Pets .After 8 years working seasonally for Robert Redford's Sundance Filmmakers Labs, Matt wrote, produced, and directed his first feature film, American Streetballers. It premiered in over 14 cities, winning numerous festival awards, before Warner Brothers picked up the rights to the film and distributed it in the U.S and abroad. Matt's experience as an entrepreneur and creator brought him back to Kansas City in 2013.