Fort Collins Startup Week

Help us kick-off Fort Collins Startup Week with a keynote presentation from Lloyd Starr.

Lloyd Starr is the former President and COO of Beatport. He was one of Beatport’s first employees, starting with the company in 2003 before the site launched, as a founding software developer. During his tenure, Beatport raised $12MM in Venture Capital, won the Denver Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Company two consecutive years and other accolades for quality and design. Before his exit Starr played a key role in selling Beatport to SFXii for $58.6MM and helping take Beatport public to raise $800MM.
Since exiting Beatport, Lloyd founded Velocity Plus. Velocity Plus is focused on helping businesses increase revenue with their current assets, unlock new growth opportunities through obtaining operational efficiency, improving the value of existing relationships, building new strategic relationships, and bringing new monetization models to the companies it helps. Starr is also an advisor for several companies including Blackstone Entrepreneurial Network.
Previously, Lloyd held creative developer/product roles at such companies as Factory Design Labs and Spire Media. He currently lives in Denver with his wife, daughter, son and dog. He is an avid runner and martial artist.