USA Together lets you directly help a veteran, one at a time

USA Together/

You've served your country well, now allow your country to give back to you.
At USA Together, our mission is to use the power of the Internet to help the men and women of the US military who have suffered life-altering injuries in service to their country.

By publishing specific needs for goods, financial assistance and services, we hope to connect injured service members and their families with those who are willing and able to assist them.

We are a group of people, some with military background, others without, that have come together to help this amazing group of Americans.

We are based in Silicon Valley and think that there is a power that the internet can bring to solving this problem.

We have no political, religious or other affiliation or agenda and represent a variety of backgrounds.

We believe that all who have served our country in the military have shown a level of care and commitment to America that is to be respected and commended. Those who have gotten injured during that service deserve a corresponding level of care and commitment from their fellow citizens. That is the social contract that we all have with those who serve. This is our way to support the troops.

We believe that there is a desire on the part of many Americans to help, but they just don't know how. This project is designed to allow each person to find someone they can help in a way that suits them. We think that people helping each other directly has a power and sense of community that is unique.

We think this is the right thing to do.



The USAtogether team




Dave Mahler - Founder and President of USA Together



Dave has been involved in high technology business in silicon valley since 1978. Dave was most recently a venture consultant for Accel Partners, where he spent 4 years evaluating and working with startups and has been a Board Director on a number of them. He has served as Interim CEO at several startups during their venture investment period. Prior to joining Accel, Dave co-founded Remedy Corporation (acquired by BMC), where he served in several executive posts, including: VP of Marketing and Sales. Prior to co-founding Remedy, Dave spent 13 years at Hewlett Packard, where he held a variety of management positions in R&D and Marketing. He holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Case Western Reserve University. Dave has also been on the Board of Directors for various non-profits in the education and Search and Rescue fields.

Dave can be reached at dave@usatogether.org.



Eric Bergan - Founder


Most recently, Eric has been an angel investor, consultant to startups, and Tech Partner at El Dorado Ventures. Eric held several positions at Remedy Corporation, including VP of Engineering, VP of Strategic ISVs, and CIO. Previously, Eric was Director of Engineering at NetLabs, a network management software company, and Director of Databases, Applications Engineering and Software Quality Assurance for Pyramid Technology. Eric has also worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and CDC. Eric received a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Kansas and an MS in Computer Science from The John Hopkins University.

Eric can be reached at eric@usatogether.org.



Beth Braun - Founder, VP, Service Member Support

Beth has over 20 years in the customer service field, most recently as the VP Customer Service at Centerbeam, Inc. Prior to that, she held various positions in the customer service area at Remedy Corp. as well as at Hewlett Packard and Lockheed. Beth has a father in law who is a former Marine and brings that sensitivity to her work at USA Together. She is also on the Board for several local sports organizations in the Bay Area. Beth received a BS in Computer Engineering from Boston University.

linked from the previous story from NPR