JW

Jeff Weiner

Executive Chairman at LinkedIn / Founding Partner Next Play Ventures

United States

Investments

Not Diamond

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Speak

Series B

Total Funding: $74M

Warp

Series A

Total Funding: $75M

Drata

Series C

Total Funding: $330M

Scoop

Seed

Total Funding: $68M

Pave

Series C

Total Funding: $160M

Xip

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Studio

Series B

Total Funding: $130M

Esusu

Seed

Total Funding: $150M

1Password

Series C

Total Funding: $920M

Iron Fish

Series A

Total Funding: $33M

June Care

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Gamma

Seed

Total Funding: $7M

Neta

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

TestGorilla

Seed

Total Funding: $80M

Nana

Seed

Total Funding: $29M

Gather

Series A

Total Funding: $26M

Namic Group Inc.

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Humaans

Seed

Total Funding: $20M

Pace

Seed

Total Funding: $71M

Edlyft

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Ginger

Series C

Total Funding: $94M

The Browser Company

Seed

Total Funding: $18M

Evervault

Series A

Total Funding: $19M

Truework

Series B

Total Funding: $98M

Cron

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

HeadSpin

Series C

Total Funding: $110M

Alladapt Immunotherapeutics

Series C

Total Funding: $230M

Atoms

Series A

Total Funding: $8M

Inventables

Series C

Total Funding: $15M

Cleo

Series B

Total Funding: $140M

Figma

Seed

Total Funding: $330M

Cloud of Goods

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Trala

Seed

Total Funding: $13M

Cameo

Seed

Total Funding: $180M

Cricket Health

Series A

Total Funding: $28M

Seesaw Learning

Series A

Total Funding: $13M

Loris

Seed

Total Funding: $16M

Maverick

Seed

Total Funding: $5.7M

ThinkCERCA

Series B

Total Funding: $27M

Headspace

Series A

Total Funding: $140M

Kaizena

Seed

Total Funding: $900K

Change.org

Series C

Total Funding: $70M

Slack

Seed

Total Funding: $1.4B

Waywire

Seed

Total Funding: $2M

Cloudera

Series A

Total Funding: $140M

Bloomspot

Seed

Total Funding: $46M

Vox Media

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $110M

Work Experience

2008

  • Executive Chairman

    2020

    Help LinkedIn realize its vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Continue to mentor and coach the leadership team, and advise on key strategic initiatives.

  • CEO

    2008 - 2020

    Over 11 year tenure as CEO, LinkedIn grew its membership base from 33M to more than 690M, increased its revenue from $78M to $7.9B and expanded the team from 338 employees to over 16,000.

  • Founding Partner

    2020

    Our mission is to coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Focus primarily on early stage and growth opportunities, e.g., Esusu, Gather, Common Room, The Browser Company, Brilliant, and more.

  • Investor/Advisor

    2008 - 2020

    Investments include Figma, Notion, Brex, Scale, Headspace Health, Vox Media and more. Previous exits include Slack (IPO) and Cloudera (IPO).

  • Founding LP, Investment Committee

    2019

    Advisor and member of the investment committee for this newly created early stage fund and foundation focused on empowering diverse founders, start-ups serving underserved communities, and companies committed to building diverse teams.

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2007

    One of the web's leading philanthropic marketplaces, designed to enable teachers to upload classroom projects in need of funding, and for anyone to select and fund a project.

  • Co-Founder

    2017

    The Compassion Project is an initiative designed to ensure compassion is taught in every primary school in the U.S. To date, 34k schools have registered, impacting over 1M students. Co-founded with Everfi, an innovative edtech provider that has been essential in developing and distributing the coursework.

  • Member, Advisory Board

    2011

    BGCP’s mission is to help its members develop the academic and life skills they need to complete high school ready for college and career. BGCP serves youth in grades K–12 at nine locations: three clubhouses and six school sites in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City, where over half the youth drop out of high school. While most youth development organizations select the young people whom they serve, BGCP serves all youth. The organization has grown rapidly over the past five years and now serves 2,000 active members at its nine sites.

2012 - 2023

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2012 - 2023

    Intuit is a leading provider of innovative business and financial management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, consumers, accounting professionals and financial institutions.

2017 - 2021

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2017 - 2021

    EVERFI is an international technology company driving social impact through education to address the most challenging issues affecting society ranging from financial wellness to mental health to workplace conduct and other critical topics. Founded in 2008, EVERFI’s Impact-as-a-Service™ solution and digital educational content have reached more than 45 million learners globally.

2012 - 2021

  • Member, Advisory Board

    2012 - 2021

    Innovative fellowship program that places top college graduates in start-ups for two years in low-cost U.S. cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs.

2007 - 2015

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2007 - 2015

    Non-profit organization with the mission to eradicate the millions of preventable and treatable deaths due to malaria. Working in conjunction with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.