LeadsAvenue.ai tells a business who is ready to buy.
Identify
The Leads Avenue Pixel names the people visiting your website, and flags past customers the moment they come back.
Find
Buyer-intent audiences surface people actively shopping, before they call anyone else.
Optimize
AI put to work across the whole business, the way a great Chief AI Officer would.
Built Here: The Cedar Rapids Advantage
The entrepreneurs who built Cedar Rapids, Iowa, one story at a time. Researched by a team of AI agents, then rewritten chapter by chapter by Justin in partnership with Atlas, an AI editor-in-chief. Credited, on purpose, to Justin VanBogart and the Machine.
Companies built from nothing.
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Co-founder · 2026
LeadsAvenue.ai
Website-visitor identification, buyer-intent data and applied AI for growing businesses.
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Managing Partner
GreenTransport, Inc.
NEMT and transportation logistics for major hospital systems.
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Owner
Chuck Charter & Rental Co.
Charters and overnight stays aboard vessels in downtown Charleston. Featured on Tiny House Hunters and named “Charleston’s Best Airbnb Experience.” The Edge ↗
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Product development
SheenStop
Environmental protection against bilge discharge.
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Co-founder & President
Stre.am
Live mobile video, launched April 2014. Led app and business development; the Jacksonville Jaguars partnered within weeks of the alpha. In The Press · Post and Courier ↗Jaguars.com ↗Exited · equity buyout
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Founder
fanful
A Groupon alternative that built customer loyalty instead of burning margin. Facebook ↗Forty Under 40 · 2015
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Founder & Principal
chuck ventures
Holding company for ventures.
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Co-founder
mediafeedia
Early SaaS for Facebook business pages. InformationWeek ↗Startup Riot
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Managing Partner · 2006–2008
3rd Street LIVE
A 700-seat concert venue in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Founder · first business
VA Drum Company
Custom drums and drum parts, sold on eBay out of a Cedar Rapids garage. First sale: a kit to a buyer in Japan, at sixteen.
Time given back to the Lowcountry.
Board member. Led the mentorship program for young entrepreneurs.
Founding member, Junior Council.
Co-Chair, Planning & Zoning, 2022–2026.
Golf coach.
Husband. Dad of two. Golfer.
Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Building companies in Charleston, South Carolina.