A venture capitalist and Swarthmore College graduate is being remembered following a fatal accident in Miami last weekend, reports 6abc.com and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Aaron Hirschhorn, 42, was an angel investor who launched the online dog sitting business DogVacay in 2012 with wife, Karine Nissim.

The company matched dog owners with dog sitters. The company was inspired after their own dog suffered anxiety from a stay at a kennel, according to an obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

They merged DogVacay with Rover.com in 2017.  

 Hirschhorn graduated Swarthmore College with a BA in neuroscience in 1999, according to his LinkedIn account.

A Central High School student, he never earned his high school diploma because he went right to Swarthmore College in his junior year, according to the Inquirer obituary.

In 2019, Hirschhorn successfully pitched a pet health startup, Gallant, on ABC’s Shark Tank. He came away with a $500,000 investment from two investors.

“He was good at so many things,” said his younger brother, Dan, senior politics editor at The Inquirer. “He made it look easy. He died at the top of his game, and he was going to go higher.”

Read more at 6abc.com about entrepreneur Aaron Hirschhorn.

See how Aaron Hirschhorn and his wife came up with the idea for DogVacay.