Kirk Myers still runs the celebrity training brand he founded, but Dogpound has raised more than $17 million from outside investors — including actor Tom Holland and Docler Holding founder György Gattyán — across two SEC-registered funding rounds. Its day-to-day leadership sat with an investor-turned-CEO for roughly two years spanning its most recent 2023 round, before Myers resumed the top role — a company now answerable to a real investor base, not just its founder.