Champions of Industry - Mike Davis - Retired CEO of Appriss

Michael Davis is the co-founder and now retired CEO of Appriss, a Louisville-based technology business focused on its mission of creating “Knowledge for Good.”

Davis is a two-time winner of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. As a lifelong
entrepreneur, Davis and his partner Yung Nguyen launched Appriss by inventing VINE, the nation’s first automated victim notification service. Today, VINE is used throughout the country, keeping millions of crime victims safe and informed.

Over the last decade, Davis led Appriss’ transformation into an international data and analytics business focused on safety,
risk, and fraud across multiple markets. The company has grown by taking on complex national challenges faced by law enforcement, exposing fraud across multiple markets, and addressing the nation’s challenges with drug diversion and addiction.

Appriss is the only Kentucky company to make the list of the state’s “50 fastest-growing private companies”
for 20 years in a row. In 2019, Appriss was valued in a market transaction at just under $1.3 billion making it one of Kentucky’s few privately held startup tech companies to achieve $1 billion in market valuation, which qualifies it as a Forbes magazine “unicorn”.

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