Joe Gerber

Managing Director at IDEO CoLab Ventures

Oakland, California

Investor
VC
Design Operator
Product Operator

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Skills

User-centered Design
Agile Methodologies
Start-ups
Product Development
Entrepreneurship
Strategy
User Experience
Teaching
Design Thinking
Design Strategy
Interaction Design
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Data Analysis
Research
Experience Design
Marketing Strategy
User Research
Ethnography
Rapid Prototyping

Education

Investments

Karma3 Labs

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $10M

XMTP

Seed

Total Funding: $25M

Optimism

Series A

Total Funding: $180M

Chia Network

Seed

Total Funding: $69M

FalconX

Seed

Total Funding: $480M

Work Experience

IDEO CoLab

2016

  • Managing Director

    2016

IDEO

2009 - 2016

  • Director, IDEO Futures

    2009 - 2016

School of Visual Arts

2012 - 2013

  • Professor

    2012 - 2013

    Teaching "Making the Case" in the Design + Entrepreneur MFA program

NYU

2011 - 2012

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy

    2011 - 2012

    Teaching "Design Thinking" at NYU Wagner

Fidelity Investments

2007 - 2008

  • Sr. Product Manager, Online Strategy

    2007 - 2008

Millennium Pharmaceuticals

2002 - 2005

  • Sr. Research Associate

    2002 - 2005

Miravant Pharmaceuticals

2000 - 2002

  • Asst. Scientist

    2000 - 2002