Ben Yoskovitz
Founding Partner at Highline Beta | Author of FocusedChaos.co
Toronto, Ontario
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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$1,000,000.00Target Investment:
$300,000.00
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Work Experience
2023
Board Member
2023
2016
Founding Partner
2016
Highline Beta is a hybrid corporate venture studio and venture capital firm that helps ambitious companies grow beyond their core through internal and external innovation.
2021
Board Member
2021
Requity Homes went through Highline Beta's Venture Studio. Requity Homes is a tech-enabled real estate platform that creates a fair, feasible & flexible new path to owning a home.
2015
Board Member
2015
Working with the Proposify team to help grow the company successfully. Proposify helps you write and design stunning proposal documents, collaborate with team members, and keep track of new business you pitch.
2019 - 2021
Board Member
2019 - 2021
Relay Platform was incubated in partnership with Highline Beta and American Family Insurance. The company was spun-out in 2019. Relay Platform provides instant quotes and client proposals for commercial insurance agents and brokers.
2014 - 2016
VP Product
2014 - 2016
Lead and manage product development of VarageSale across web, iOS and Android. Work with the team to continue to grow VarageSale successfully, and assist operationally with recruiting, etc.
2012 - 2014
Director, Product Management
2012 - 2014
Continuing my efforts at building out GoInstant's technology and products, working with customers and realizing the vision for the Shared Web. GoInstant ended up delivering Salesforce SOS to Service Cloud, a mobile SDK for Salesforce customers to provide real-time video & audio support in-app. I worked with a great team of engineers to get the initial product built, through multiple keynote Dreamforce presentations, before leaving to pursue new opportunities.
2011 - 2014
VP Product
2011 - 2014
Focused on making a fantastic product that customers love. Driving product roadmap, heavy duty customer development, and building a great business. GoInstant is changing how people share the web. Zero downloads and zero plugins; you can instantly share your web experience with others.
2011 - 2012
Board Member
2011 - 2012
I'm on the Board of Directors at Localmind, after working with the company initially through Year One Labs.
2010 - 2012
Founder / Publisher
2010 - 2012
I instigated NextMontreal and serve as its Publisher. NextMontreal is a hub for news and opinion on everything tech in Montreal. We cover startups and big companies, Web, mobile, gaming, life sciences and more.