Griffin Renker

Griffin Renker is an investor, philanthropist and engaged in his family’s leadership at several DeVos family-owned business ventures, including Wakestream Holdings. He formerly held enterprise sales positions at Stripe, the financial payments technology company, where he was a founding member of its Chicago office.  Griffin previously served other organizations in a variety of roles related to advertising technology and sales. 

As an investor, Griffin has focused on fintech, blockchain, technology, real estate, and CPG companies. 

Together with his wife, Katie VanderWeide Renker, Griffin has been a longtime supporter of Charity Water, a nonprofit organization that provides clean drinking water to people in developing nations. In addition, Griffin and Katie seek to support local organizations to help meet the basic needs of children so they are better able to thrive and achieve their full potential.

Griffin earned a bachelor’s degree in business marketing, with a minor in entrepreneurship, from Miami University.  

Griffin and Katie live in Colorado where they enjoy hiking, camping, cooking, and exploring all that the mountains have to offer.