EB

Elana Berkowitz

Co-Founder and Partner, Springbank Collective

Brooklyn, New York

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $625,000.00

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder and Partner

    2020

    Springbank Collective is an early-stage investment firm building the infrastructure to support women and working families. www.springbank.vc

  • External Advisor, Stanford Startup Garage

    2023

2021

  • Mentor, Future of Longevity Accelerator

    2021

  • Founder, EB Collective

    2013

    Strategy, investments, BD, international market insights. Currently working with Eric Schmidt's family office. I work with startups from stealth mode to Series C as well as innovative philanthropies looking to do things differently on the challenges that matter most. Clients include Eric Schmidt's family offices, Google, National Geographic, General Assembly, Code for America, Rockefeller Foundation, Clinton Foundation, Knight Foundation, OnDeck Capital, Bloomberg LP, Kickstarter and more.

  • Advisor

    2016

    Proud advisor to one of the smartest mobile data companies out there, using that information to unlock credit, identity and economic opportunity in emerging markets.

2017 - 2023

  • Investor/Advisor

    2017 - 2023

2017 - 2021

  • Innovator-in-Residence

    2017 - 2021

    CARE is one of the world's largest humanitarian organizations focused on transforming the lives of women and girls, including programming that has reached more than 1 million Syrian refugees in the MENA region. As their first part-time IIR, I'll be supporting and connecting their amazing program teams around the world to private sector tech and media partners, new capital sources, context appropriate technology solutions etc. Let me know if you want to join in!

  • Co-Founder

    2016 - 2021

    Launched first of its kind chatbot that is the simplest, fastest way to register you and your friends to vote. Text HELLO to 384-387 to try it out. Developed in partnership with Twilio. You can easily use our iframe widget, get a custom page or whitelabel us. Thanks to partners including Genius, WordPress, Latino Victory Project, Refinery29, Headcount, West Elm and many more.

2012 - 2014

  • Advisor, Community Impact Development Group (incubator for tech led social enterprises)

    2012 - 2014

2013 - 2013

  • International

    2013 - 2013

    Strategy, partnerships for new markets.