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Kevin Novak

Managing Partner & Founder at Rackhouse Venture Capital

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner & Founder

    2021

2018

  • Advisor

    2018

    Proud to serve on the advisory boards of the following companies: - Standard Cognition (2017-2019) - door2door (2017-2019) - LVRG (2018 - 2019) - Curated (2019- current)

2017 - 2020

  • Equity Partner

    2017 - 2020

    Excited to be a member of the Data Collective group!

  • Angel Investor

    2014 - 2020

    I'm an angel investor in over 50 companies. A selection of my portfolio can be found at https://www.jigsawvc.com/. I stopped actively making new investments via Jigsaw when I launched Rackhouse, but I still support existing Jigsaw founders as they continue to build their companies.

2019 - 2020

  • CTO

    2019 - 2020

2019 - 2019

  • EIR

    2019 - 2019

2017 - 2018

  • Chief Data Officer

    2017 - 2018

2017 - 2017

  • Entrepreneur In Residence

    2017 - 2017

2017 - 2017

  • Head of Data & Engineering, Pricing & Operations Tooling

    2017 - 2017

    Building the world's most intelligent freight marketplace. I helped our Operations Tools group launch our internal brokerage tools, including our load board and load booking suite. I launched the Uber Freight Marketplace Dynamics team, focusing on optimizing how the brokerage acquires and fulfills freight opportunities, as well as owning algorithmic pricing for the brokerage.

2011 - 2017

  • Head of Data Science Platform

    2015 - 2017

    Building a research focused, analytically driven group of data professionals. The Data Science & Analytics team is responsible for pre-feature development research and feasibility experimentation, as well as post-facto analysis to determine the efficacy and quality of complex data features and products.

  • Head of Data Science

    2014 - 2015

  • Data Scientist

    2011 - 2014

    Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Demand Forecasting,Computer Programming, Dynamic Pricing algorithms. Solving mathematical problems in the transportation industry.