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Jacob Cohen

Building Apprenta, a public benefit corporation that removes barriers to family-sustaining careers while addressing our society's most pressing workforce challenges.

Washington, District of Columbia

Investor
VC

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Program Development
Program Management
Grant Writing
Qualitative Research
Program Evaluation
Public Relations
Business Analysis
Project Management
Data Analysis
Operations Management
Public-private Partnerships
Proposal Writing
Report Writing
Staff Supervision
Strategic Planning
Performance Management
Control Systems Design
Media Relations
Change Management
Non-profit Fund Development

Education

Lists including Jacob

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Based in Seattle

494 people

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All Series A Investors

14752 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

Work Experience

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MAGIC Fund

2021

  • General Partner

    2021

    Magic is a global 30M pre-seed and seed fund focused on founders backing founders.

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Philips

2019 - 2022

  • Business Leader, Patient Navigation

    2021 - 2022

    Responsible for leading Philips' Patient Navigation business (formerly Medumo) including a team of 60+ employees. Philips' patient navigation business has touched over 15m patients and is partnered with 10 the top 20 health systems in the US to deliver a best-in-class patient experience and improve operational efficiency.

  • Strategy and Innovation Lead

    2019 - 2021

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Medumo

2016 - 2019

  • Co-Founder & COO (acquired by Philips)

    2016 - 2019

    Acquired 2019 by Philips Healthcare) Patient navigation is critical to successful healthcare outcomes, yet in most healthcare settings patient navigation consists of labor intensive phone calls or emails that are time consuming and ineffective. Medumo’s CareTours™ enable healthcare organizations to guide patients using automated just-in-time, turn-by-turn instructions and checklists. CareTours are “automated patient outreach protocols” that are customizable, mobile friendly, highly engaging and adaptive to patients’ needs without requiring staff time.

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Alvarez and Marsal

2015 - 2015

  • Summer Consulting Intern

    2015 - 2015

    Worked on K-12 education team to help public sector organizations solve financial management and oprational efficiency challenges.

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NYC Department of Education

2014 - 2014

  • Education Pioneers Consultant

    2014 - 2014

    Led comprehensive investigation of operational challenges within Office of Student Enrollment and designed knowledge management platform to improve efficiency and performance of enrollment and admissions systems impacting 1.1 million students.

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VAYLA New Orleans

2010 - 2014

  • Deputy Director

    2010 - 2014

    Served as Deputy Director of a community non-profit organization devoted to youth development and empowerment and founded The Raise Your Hand Campaign, a program through which hundreds of students and parents have brought about policy improvements in New Orleans public and charter schools.

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City of Boston

2014 - 2014

  • Participatory Budgeting Program Evaluation Consultant

    2014 - 2014

    Served as principal researcher hired to evaluate first year of Boston's innovative budgeting process that enables youth to determine how $1,000,000 in City’s capital budget is allocated

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Challah for Hunger

2009 - 2010

  • Deputy Director

    2009 - 2010

    Developed the nation’s largest revenue-generating chapter of Challah for Hunger (CfH), a campus-based organization that raises money through selling bread to support various local and international humanitarian causes and helped to design national non-profit organization to support chapter incubation and scaling efforts at campuses across the country.