{"id":977,"date":"2019-08-16T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williambissett.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2019-08-20T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T12:12:10","slug":"charlotte-angel-connection-episode-090-david-stunja-coo-of-petscreening-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williambissett.com\/2019\/08\/16\/charlotte-angel-connection-episode-090-david-stunja-coo-of-petscreening-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Angel Connection Episode 090: David Stunja, COO of Petscreening.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today, we have David Stunja<\/a> joining us on the podcast.\u00a0David is the COO of Petscreening.com<\/a> which recently completed a Seed Round led by Grotech Ventures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many of you know David, but for those that don\u2019t he took the corporate America route before he joined Petscreening.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

David spent most of his career in Washington, DC before relocating to Charlotte and was a VP of Corporate Strategy for Bank of America.\u00a0All along, he knew he wanted to work with a fast-growing startup company.\u00a0He just had to find the right one for him.\u00a0To aid in his search, he starting writing stories on Charlotte Area starts for Start Charlotte (now Charlotte Inno<\/a>), for which he has authored sixty articles.<\/p>\n

David\u2019s involvement in the start-up scene through Start Charlotte, and his passion about using technology to turn innovative ideas into sellable products and connecting like-minded people, lead him to PetScreening.com<\/a>, and in 2018, David joined the company as its COO.<\/p>\n

PetScreening.com<\/a> was started by John Bradford<\/a> in 2016. PetScreening.com<\/a> is revolutionizing the pet screening process for housing providers and property managers. The platform, supported by a legal review team that reviews all assistance animal accommodation requests (emotional support, companion, service animals, etc.), also empowers apartment owner operators to screen all pets individually much like they would a resident. PetScreening\u2019s first-to-market risk algorithm, measures the housing-related risk for each household pet, including the pet\u2019s owner, and provides the property manager a summarized risk-score (learn more about their FIDO score here<\/a>). With PetScreeing.com<\/a>, property managers, landlords and housing providers can better manage renters’ pets and assistance animals for free while introducing more pet-related revenue opportunities.<\/p>\n

During our podcast, we discuss David\u2019s involvement with the Charlotte start-up scene and what went into David\u2019s decision to switch from a stable corporate job to a start-up company.<\/p>\n

We also discuss PetScreening.com\u2019s<\/a> process of looking for the \u201cright partners\u201d to raise money in 2019, and what their focus is for the next twenty-four months. David\u2019s career goals, including positively impacting the community, creating jobs, and helping grow the start-up community, are already coming to fruition! Hear about it and more during the podcast.<\/p>\n

All podcasts are edited by\u00a0Brian Adams<\/a>. If you’ve noticed the quality of the audio improving substantially since the summer of 2018, Brian is the reason. He does an unbelievable job. Any blips or issues now are due to the recording.<\/p>\n

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