Jonathan Speed Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Waterman Ventures is a community of Brown University alumni: investors, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts. The fund enables accredited and qualified investors to directly participate in the next great Brown-affiliated businesses. As one of Alumni Ventures Group funds—one of the most active venture capital groups globally (PitchBook)—Waterman exclusively invests alongside traditional venture capital experts such as Accomplice, a16z, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins and NEA. Waterman Ventures is private, for-profit, and friendly but not affiliated with or sanctioned by Brown University.Portfolio includes:- Casper (NEA, Norwest, IVP, Lerer Hippeau)- Baffle (True Ventures)- Circle (Accel, Goldman Sachs, Bitmain)- Compass (Softbank, Fidelity)- Deserve (Accel, Aspect, Sallie Mae)- Ellevest (Khosla, Contour, PayPal)- Freebird (General Catalyst, Accomplice, American Express)- Honor (8VC, Andreessen Horowitz, True, Naspers)- Luma Health (Peakspan, USVP)- MD Metrix (Founders Co-op)- NPM (Bessemer, True)- Podcorn (Bessemer, 500 Startups)- RapidSOS (Playground, M12, Highland)- Sana (Founders Fund, Maveron, SOSV, Menlo)- Tara (Aspect Ventures)See more at www.Waterman-Ventures.com

Somerville, Massachusetts, Us

Building a global network of Black and Brown Startup founders.

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AlchemistX is the Corporate Services Division of Alchemist Accelerator and the home of the Innovators Inside Podcast.

San Mateo, California, Us

Swytchback™ takes traditional online surveys to the next level. By collecting real-time insights across a platform built to engage, Swytchback delivers brands, product marketers, and agencies immediate actionable data that provides deep and real-time feedback on customer preferences. Our format achieves completion rates a 4x the industry average, in a matter of hours not weeks, and at a much lower costs than competing methodologies. Leading global brands use Swythcback to meet their needs for fast insights in an agile development environment.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

New York City, Ny, Us

We are a diversity-driven title agency, providing opportunity to our team, and helping our clients address their operational and DEI goals. Opportunity CRE is building a better title insurance agency through its mission- and diversity-driven principles.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

1790 empowers current college and recent graduate creators, doers, and thinkers to better humanity through innovation and action. The company morphed into 1821.

San Francisco, Us

Bay Scholars provides merit-based, 4-year scholarships ($14,000) to under-resourced students to attend High school college preparatory schools in the Bay Area. Over $10MM has been awarded to 1,000+ students; 100 percent of our students graduate and all of them are accepted to college. www.bayscholars.org

Palo Alto, California, Us

Developing a suite of business intelligence-machine learning (BI-ML) tools for innovators to approach (product validation), launch (risk mitigation), and land (capital).

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Versal Group is an eLearning technology company located in San Francisco, California. Its product allows employees to quickly author and distribute interactive content on a Saas-based, eLearning platform. Key Contributions:- Led the adoption of the revenue recognition standard ASC 606, privacy regulations GDPR and CA Privacy, and operational platforms.- Conducted business operations and budget analysis.- Worked with the management team to Increase the qualified enterprise lead pipeline from 200 percent and reduced the close deal cycle by 28 percent by completing an across-the-marketing funnel KPI project with the marketing group.

Key Contributions:- Launch a two-sided (students and companies) taxonomical-based STEM workforce platform with the CEO and engineering team.- Tripled the qualified enterprise prospect pipeline through strategic partnerships with business associations and service providers—helping the firm become the second fastest-growing private company in the San Francisco Bay Area.- Used financial and marketing key performance indicators (KPIs) to budget, forecast, and track the company’s fiscal and operational health.

Key Contributions:- Designed and launched a SaaS fintech AR/AP application on Intuit’s developer platform that improved customers working capital by 10 – 15 percent.- Grew customer base to 1,500 SMBs through strategic partnerships with accelerators and accountants.- Built financial models and investor presentations; raised seed funding.

London, Gb

Key Contributions:- Led a strategic review of under-served markets, creating a national business development program focused on female- and minority-led life sciences and technology companies.- Increased the qualified lead pipeline by 25 percent through strategic relationships with entities such as Goldman Sachs, the National Association of Investment Companies, The Indus Entrepreneurs, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.- Founded the 300-member African American in Life Sciences group.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Key Contribution:- Introduced the company to its first multi-million-dollar investor.In July 2016, OpenText™ purchased Recommind, Inc., a leading provider of eDiscovery and information analytics. Recommind’s SaaS and managed services solutions deliver insight from unstructured data to help people make better, faster business decisions.

Key Contributions:- Managed the firm’s largest business development practice (Silicon Valley).- Increased financial assets under management from $10B to $24B.- Improved the client close cycle by 20 percent through a comprehensive review of the lead-to-close funnel with key internal partners.- Grew regional profits by 20 percent year-over-year through a collaborative effort with the investment product development and estate planning teams

New York, New York, Us

Key Contributions:- Increased the office’s assets under management by $7 billion.- Managed $3 billion of client financial assets with a team of corporate finance, estate planning, investment management, and philanthropy experts. - Generated $2MM – $3MM per annum of profits through a revenue-sharing partnership with Solomon Smith Barney

Ba, Political Science

Ma, Military History

Master Of Arts - Ma, Military History