Blake Billiet

Co-Founder

2024

Sr. Manager, Founders' Office

2022 - 2024

Principal

2020 - 2022

Hyperplane is a young, seed-stage venture capital firm investing in data and machine intelligence companies. As an Investor, I spend my time searching for high potential startups, performing diligence on prospective deals, assisting in finance and operations-related matters, researching frontier technologies, and growing my network.

Associate

2019 - 2020

Analyst

2018 - 2018

Venture Coach

2016 - 2022

As a coach, I help student entrepreneurs navigate the accelerator's three-stage curriculum. In the first stage, we help entrepreneurs define their value proposition, perform preliminary market research, and begin customer validation. In the second stage, we build out the business plan including MVP design, revenue model, and go-to-market strategy. In the third stage, entrepreneurs can apply for $10k non-dilutive grant funding. In this stage, we help entrepreneurs execute against their go-to-market strategy and position themselves for external investment.

Judge & Mentor

2019 - 2020

Headquartered in the United States with locations in Boston, Israel, Mexico, Rhode Island, Switzerland, and Texas, MassChallenge strengthens the global innovation ecosystem by accelerating high-potential startups across all industries, from anywhere in the world for zero-equity taken. As a judge, I provide input on program applicants and help identify high potential startups. As a mentor, I advise participants on topics including go-to-market strategy, financing, etc.

Venture Partner

2017 - 2018

Contrary is a university focused venture fund that is investing in the most promising university-based startups. As a partner, I sourced potentials deals coming out of Northeastern.

Investment Analyst Co-op

2016 - 2017

Hyperplane is a young, seed-stage venture capital firm investing in data and machine intelligence companies. The Analyst is primarily responsible for participating in lead generation and due diligence on prospective investment opportunities. The Analyst is also expected to explore and report on frontier technologies for future investment. My unique contribution was thorough research into blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.

Co President

2016 - 2017

Northeastern's Entrepreneurs Club is a student-run organization focused on helping students pursue Entrepreneurship as a profession. We run 6 programs making up over 30 individual events every semester. Our members are able to attend speaker events, field trips to startups, career fairs, startup competitions, and other amazing opportunities. As Co-President, I oversaw a 20-student management team and was responsible for the execution and logistics of all programming including event planning, financing, marketing, and other core functions.

Finance Intern

2016 - 2016

Founder Collective is a top early stage venture capital firm based in Cambridge. As an intern, I worked on many ad-hoc projects in the finance department including valuation, roll-forwards, and other portfolio management activities.

Deal Team Analyst Co-op

2016 - 2016

Hercules is the largest non-bank lender to venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development in a broadly diversified variety of technology, life sciences, and sustainable and renewable technology industries. As an Analyst, I worked with other Analysts and Managing Directors on all stages of the lending process, including initial screening, formal due diligence, and deal closing. Required skills included financial modeling, KPI analysis, business writing, industry research, extensive attention to detail, time-management, and strong communication ability.