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$100,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
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Work Experience
Managing Partner
2024
2021 - 2024
Co-Founder
2021 - 2024
2017 - 2023
Managing Director
2017 - 2023
2018 - 2021
Founding Partner
2018 - 2021
2020 - 2021
Chief Operating Officer
2020 - 2021
2017 - 2020
Co-Founder & Investor
2017 - 2020
2016 - 2020
Director, VentureBridge Startup Accelerator
2018 - 2020
> Built and launched pre-seed startup accelerator for CMU alumni (non-student) founders > 2018 cohort has raised > $6M in follow-on funding (key program metric) > 2019 cohort. Expanded diversity to included 2 female founders & 1 international team > Developed extensive bay area entrepreneur mentor network > Raised $1.5M funding for investment portfolio (Dobkin Intuitive Foundation)
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
2016 - 2020
2017 - 2018
Co-Founder
2017 - 2018
Computer Vision color AI designer for D2C paint eCommerce Built team of 6. Raised pre-seed capital. Acquired by strategic in 12 months Collaboratively lead a team to design, build and iterated 6 different product- user experiences to test validate market. Extensive ethnographic research paired with online & offline A/B quantitative experiments.
2010 - 2015
President & Chief Product Officer
2013 - 2015
(Acquired by Yelp)
CEO
2010 - 2013
NoWait is taking the frustration out of the seating process at no reservation restaurants for guests and restaurant owners by using text messaging. NoWait is a platform restaurants use to engage their guests while they are waiting and after they leave that helps them increase their revenue.
2007 - 2009
Director of Solutions Management
2007 - 2009
> Hypergrowth: 100 to 200 employees in 18 months > Established Product Management and design functions in company. Built 6-person team in 6 months > Launched fastest growing and most profitable product (BlueAccount for SMB). Yr 1 resulted in 10% increase in company revenue > Raised $8M venture funding to define, develop and launch new Consumer-Directed Health product division