JL

Javaughn Lawrence

Co-founder & CEO at Drip (We're hiring!)

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

2021

  • Co-founder, CEO

    2021

    Drip is an social commerce marketplace and AI-enabled tooling for passionate communities starting with collectibles Growing fast and hiring in product, eng, partnerships/sales and operations Backed by Base10, Eniac Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Harlem Capital; Angels include founders of Axie Infinity, Atentive, Wonderschool and other companies

2023

  • Member

    2023

  • Scout Investor

    2020 - 2022

    Sector Agnostic pre-seed and seed investments: Aidaly - Compensation and financial services for family caregivers Seashell - Defi-tooling to maximize staking yields Marco - Cultural HQ for companies ArcType - super intuitive SQL IDE (acquired by clickhouse)

2020 - 2022

  • Fellow

    2020 - 2022

2017 - 2021

  • EIR, Venture Capital Investor

    2017 - 2021

    Entrepreneur in Residence (Sept '19 to April 2021) Associate (June ‘18 to Sept '19) Senior Analyst (Sept ‘17 to May ‘18) Sourced: Level AI (generative AI-powered customer service), Bleximo (superconducting quantum computer) Other deal experience (non-exhaustive): Unsupervised (AI for unstructured data), FortressIQ (Robotic Process Automation), Fuzzy, ProdPerfect, Sea Machines (Autonomous ships), xWing (Autonomous planes), 1upHealth Portfolio companies include Vungle, Anchor, Airbnb, Boxed

2020 - 2020

  • Entrepreneur In Residence

    2020 - 2020

2019 - 2020

  • Co-founder, CEO

    2019 - 2020

    Created voice clones using AI models. First use case focused on dubbing YouTube videos into other languages

2018 - 2019

  • Board Observer, Investor

    2018 - 2019

2017 - 2019

  • Board Observer, Seed Investor

    2017 - 2019

2017 - 2019

  • Board Observer, Seed investor

    2017 - 2019