About
Hi, I'm Stephen Ray Thomas.
I'm a serial technology entrepreneur and company builder. I turn ambitious ideas into scalable businesses.
The Approach
A broad approach to company creation.
My work spans industries, with an emphasis on identifying opportunities early and bringing together technology, product, design, strategy, and capital to build around them.
Rather than operating within a single category, I take a broad approach to company creation — finding large problems, developing better ways to solve them, and building the technology and businesses to do it.
Portfolio
Companies I've built.
Bargain Bath
Founder & Owner
An eCommerce bath and home essentials brand focused on clean design, everyday comfort, and affordable pricing.
AlwaysRemember
Founder & Owner
A memorial crowdfunding platform that helps families raise money after the loss of a loved one.
ProBid
Founder & Owner
An iOS app that helps contractors create professional bids, estimates, and proposals faster.
OpenHouse Pro
Founder & Owner
An iOS app that helps real estate agents collect visitor information and manage open house leads.
Cheetah
Founder & Owner
A 100% commission real estate brokerage operating on the world's first subscription-based brokerage model.
Luxury Listing Masters
Founder & Owner
An online real estate brokerage using a subscription-based real estate model.
Auditions
Co-Founder & Owner
A platform for actors and creatives to discover, organize, and manage audition opportunities.
FilmPortal
Founder & Owner
A premium submission platform helping filmmakers prepare, package, and present their content for Netflix distribution opportunities.
Screenroom
Founder & Owner
A portfolio and streaming platform for independent filmmakers to showcase their work.
Millenia AI
Founder & Owner
Millenia AI is Stephen Ray Thomas's own AI assistant platform built for modern productivity, creativity, and business execution.
LUT Depot
Founder & Owner
A membership platform for filmmakers and video creators to access unlimited cinematic LUT presets.
Early-Stage Ventures
Hands-on where it matters most.
Beyond companies I build directly, I work on early-stage venture opportunities — identifying promising startups where I can contribute capital, product development, technology, strategy, or a combination of all four.
My involvement is typically hands-on: helping take an idea from its earliest stage and developing the product and infrastructure needed to turn it into a real company.
My work continues across new ventures in technology, media, financial products, marketplaces, and consumer platforms, with the same underlying approach: identify where an industry can work differently, then build around that opportunity.
Let's build something.
If you're working on something ambitious — or thinking about starting — I'd love to hear about it.