Jeffrey Beir Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Joined the Venture Lane team as a General Partner after a year of working as a lead mentor. Focused on selecting the Studio cohort, program delivery and raising capital to invest in the cohort companies. My specific emphasis is on 'Product as an Enabler for Growth' and 'Fundraising Strategy'.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

The Harvard iLab exists to support Harvard students and select alumni in their quest to explore the world of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Lincoln, NH, US

Fulfilling a dream to share my passion for snowboarding with children and adults. Nothing better than ending the day with a student's ear-to-ear smile. There's a blog post in the making about the similarities in teaching snowboarding and mentoring startups.

Boston, MA, US

Quebic is a collaboration infrastructure solution for website publishers, cloud applications and marketplaces. Their ground-up, privacy-first, secure and compliant messaging, communications, and collaboration solution provides partner brandable collaboration through a horizontal SaaS platform. Customers maintain control over their brand, security.

Boston, MA, US

Monitaur is committed to improving people's lives by providing confidence and trust in AI. Creating responsible AI is a business problem, not just a tech problem. Monitaur brings teams together to one platform to mitigate risk and turn intention into action.

Debate Spaces is an education non-profit that uses debate to foster civic engagement and connect middle and high school students from around the world.

Infinityy is a collaboration platform for all real estate decisions. Currently being piloted by world leading real estate companies such as Alliance Residential, CBRE, Avison Young, and Greystar, Infinityy is used for a range of use cases. I helped Jim Schoonmaker, CEO found and start the company in 2019.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Cobu brings community to multifamily housing through curated community event experiences and technology. I have been a mentor and advisor to the CEO, Ben Pleat since the company founding at the Harvard iLab in 2016

Boston, MA, US

SoWork is a next generation collaboration application for distributed organizatons. Vish Punwani and Emma Giles, co-founders of Sophya are former Khan Academy and two of their most popular Teaching Fellows. Sage is based in Harvard’s new high-level incubator Launch Lab X, and are one of the key teams in Y Combinator’s Startup School. They are dedicated to.

Mentor Foundry works with awesome founders to build promising companies. Mentor Foundry brings a breadth of experience - strategy, product, go-to-market, capital raising and mentorship - to help teams navigate the early days and focus on the right things. Mentor Foundry understands the dynamic aspects of startups - attracting the right team, developing.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Hourwork delivers a platform for hourly employers to manage their workforce. They are leading the charge to a more flexible, on-demand workforce that provides benefits to employers and employees. I met Rahkeem Morris, CEO and Rob Snyder, COO a the Harvard iLab and have been deeply engaged with the company on issues of strategy, product, customer traction.

• RoadAhead™ helps you find the best exit ahead on the highway for all your travel needs. Unlike other travel apps, RoadAhead organizes merchants by what is ahead and what is convenient to the exit.RoadAhead consistently.
• ‎"Because we don't double back, kids. If you wanted to go to Burger King, you should have told me 30 miles ago." - Rafe Needleman, cnet‎
• "What if you could compare the gas prices of the stations at the next exit, versus those 30 miles down the road? What if you could make sure you never drove past another doughnut shop with a five-star rating on Yelp?".
• “RoadAhead is a different and clever nav app” Mel Martin, TUAW
• “Have you ever stopped off the highway for a quick caffeine jolt -- and then wanted to toss the bitter-tasting brew out the window as you whiz by a Starbucks five minutes down the road?” Automotive App of the Week.

Helpful is a focused professional network that brings meaningful community to companies, organizations and incubators. Their focus is to make real connections that enhance the helpfulness of your network. I've known Chris Wolfel, CEO since he was CEO of Idea at Northeastern in 2012. He and his co-founder Nate Bessa are the true complete team.

seed2A works with early stage companies providing product design, development and business strategy services. seed2A understands the challenges of early stage and venture-backed companies and workers effectively within those constraints. Our team of UX experts can help companies deliver breakthrough web and mobile consumer and business applications.We.

Wellesley, Massachusetts, US

• Joined North Bridge after the successful sale and transition of eRoom to Documentum and then EMC. Focused my energies in the SaaS and internet sectors and led investments and held board positions in:
• Awareness - recruited much of the management team to the company and helped to focus the company on it's current opportunity
• Firm58 - along with the founder, helped recruit the current CEO and transition the business from a one-off solution to a repeatable, recurring business
• Currensee - teamed up with a founder/chairman I've known for some time and helped recruit much of the management team and shape the initial strategy
• SpringCM - helped them grow to over $2m/qtr in bookings and the leader in the category
• Newforma - assumed the board responsibility and worked closely with the management team for five years through three rounds of financing as the business grew from $0 to over $2m/quarter in bookings

Round Rock, Texas, US

Responsible for the strategy, planning, engineering and delivery of Documentum’s enterprise content management, collaboration and compliance solutions. Assumed responsibility of all products, representing $400m in revenue after the acquisition of eRoom Technology. Effectively transitioned responsibilities 6 months after the acquisition of Documentum by EMC.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Co-founded and grew eRoom from the initial PowerPoint presentation and $3.5m in VC from North Bridge and Matrix, into the market leader in the collaboration category with more than 1,000 customers, $40m in revenue and profitable. Sold the company to Documentum in 2002 with a valuation over $200m, representing the largest private software transaction in.

US

Business responsibility for SmartSuite, 1-2-3, WordPro, Freelance, Approach, NotesSuite and Lotus Components product line. Successfully delivered a numerous releases to all products. Founder of the Components Business Group focused on component software and on-line commerce. As VP Spreadsheets, assumed responsibility for the spreadsheet organization after.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Responsible for development and design assessment of various semiconductor and fiber optic laser components, circuit board designs, and automated test systems.

Norwalk, Connecticut, US

During my junior and senior years at Northwestern, took off three semesters to co-op. Designed and prototyped a test system controller for copier product development and a microprocessor-based system for the manufacture and evaluation of liquid crystal displays.

Mba, General Management

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bsee, Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering, Highest Distinction

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Education record