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Sheila Lirio Marcelo

Co-Founder and CEO of Ohai.ai, Founder of Care.com

New York, New York

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2023

  • Founder and CEO

    2023

    Ohai.ai is a cutting-edge technology startup leveraging AI to improve the lives of families through an AI household assistant backed by a team of humans. Launched in January 2024, this groundbreaking product is designed to lighten the load for busy parents. Meet O, the virtual assistant, who helps with managing schedules, coordinating family tasks, setting reminders, sorting through emails, and more. The Ohai.ai team consists of early employees of Care.com, data science and AI experts, and product and engineering leaders from beloved consumer brands. As parents themselves, they deeply understand the pressing need for effective solutions for managing the chaos of family life.

  • Founder and CEO

    2021

    Proof of Learn's mission is to unlock engaging, high-quality education across the world through blockchain and AI and be the leading placement platform for project and full-time work.

  • Founder

    2006

  • Founder, Chairwoman, & CEO of Care.com

    2006 - 2020

    Our mission is to improve the lives of families and caregivers by helping them connect in a reliable and easy way. Our solutions help families to make informed decisions in one of the most important and highly considered aspects of their family life—finding and managing quality care for their family—their children, parents, pets and other loved ones. In providing families a comprehensive marketplace for care, we are building the largest destination for quality caregivers to find fulfilling employment and career opportunities globally. We strive to help our members—families and caregivers—pursue their passions and fulfill the basic human need of caring for each other.

  • Venture Partner

    2021 - 2023

    New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. With nearly $24 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 230 portfolio company IPOs and more than 390 mergers and acquisitions. www.nea.com.

2006 - 2006

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2006 - 2006

2005 - 2006

  • VP, General Manager

    2005 - 2006

2000 - 2005

  • VP, Product Management & Marketing

    2000 - 2005

    Initiated the planning, development, and execution of creative, product management and member marketing units at Upromise that focused on website and email marketing and overall Upromise service offering. Effectively increased acquisition and retention of members through innovative website optimization, member segmentation/targeting and email testing. Led planning and build out of targeted offers and promotions platform for further increasing loyalty metrics. Responsible for overall program and release management at Upromise that focused on prioritizing all technology releases and enhancements to service.

Monitor Group

1996 - 1998

  • Consultant

    1996 - 1998

Pyramid Research

1995 - 1996

  • Consultant

    1995 - 1996

Putnam Hayes & Bartlett

1993 - 1994

  • Analyst

    1993 - 1994