Aligned Partners is obsessively focused on resourcefulness and alignment.Everything we do centers around enabling great outcomes for our founders and investors. Our investment approach uniquely serves the needs of highly capital-efficient companies. In particular, our philosophy serves these beliefs:- Aligning the interests of founders and investors works better for everyone. When we're all pulling the oars in the same direction, we can accomplish great things with less friction.- Higher efficiency yields higher returns. Entrepreneurship is, at its essence, about resourcefulness. Companies that achieve their goals in a resource-efficient manner provide high value to their founders and investors alike.- Sustainable growth is a side effect of creating real value for customers. Great companies deeply understand their customers and offer them exceptional, targeted value propositions.Aligned Partners leads Series A investments in US-based companies that are highly capital-efficient and focused on enterprise/B2B technologies.Jodi is a General Partner and co-founder of Aligned Partners. She has been an early-stage venture capitalist for over 20 years and has served as a board member or board observer/advisor for dozens of technology companies over that time. Her investment focus has always been on early-stage enterprise and communication technologies, and her current boards include TrueData, Quivers, SA Ignite, Full Circle, CloudLex, Puloli, Boardspan, and TallyX. Before entering the venture capital business in the late 90's, Jodi was on the early team of three startups in North America and Europe. She also worked in the technology group at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where she managed large-scale projects for clients such as Motorola Semiconductor, Pacific Bell, and Sun Microsystems, none of which are currently known by those same names.Specialties: Board of Directors leadership, corporate strategy, wireless communications, mobile technology, early-stage investment, venture capital, startups, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategy, business development, keynote speaker, panelist, improv.