Vineet Jain

Consultant to first-time founder GPs & first-mover family-office LP. Role involves guiding, educating, and providing context for fund inception and early-stage operations. The $10M early-stage fund is focused on longevity & age-tech.

Responsibilities include -

• Act as, and continually evolve, knowledge bank on fund inception, management, & operations for founding members.
• Establish & engage with legal & fund management services to finalize 3-entity fund corporate structure, operational guidelines, and LPA contracts.
• Refine investment thesis & LP deck. Act as liaison between LPs and GPs to explain LPA agreement and edge-case scenarios.
• Establish & run fund operations - develop sourcing channels, establish startup CRM & data-capture discipline, identify meeting cadence, agenda, and outcomes.
• Define startup assessment and due-diligence rigor including data collection & validation on problem-solution & product-market fit.
• Develop financial modeling, waterfall analysis, ROI & IRR calculation models.

VU Venture Partners is an early-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, and Proptech. Responsibilities include

• Source and review investment opportunities, present at weekly partners' meeting, lead due diligence and champion top deals through investment committee.
• Work closely with fund GPs who have 45+ years of VC experience and invested in 10+ unicorns, to make ~5 investments per quarter, each targeting 10x+ return. GP investments include Beyond Meat, Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Wish, Oculus, Oscar, and Venmo.
• Curate proprietary deal flow through strong & responsive global network of accelerators, venture studios, corporate innovation hubs, startup founders, trade organizations, and alumni / academic networks.

NEC-X is NEC's venture studio with a corporate mandate to invest & incubate in startups that leverage & license NEC's technology.

• Provide fractional C-suite leadership to 5 NEC-X portfolio startups.
• Lead development of Corporate VC Fund's strategic investment thesis.
• Identify, build, hire operations team of VC associates and interns.
• Establish, refine, & own CVC fund processes. Enable team members to embrace, refine, & maintain process discipline.
• Set up & manage fund operations, P/L, schedules, budgets, individual & team KPIs, team meetings, partner meetings, investment committee meetings.
• Source startups through self-developed and existing corporate channels. Establish & Manage CVC CRM.
• Manage outreach, pitch presentations, follow-up communications, data library access, research activity, due diligence, and reports to CVC leadership as startups move through investment pipeline.
• Define startup investment terms and negotiate term sheets on behalf of CVC.
• Sourced over 3,000 startups in 9 months, negotiated terms for 10+ startups.

Connection Silicon Valley runs accelerator programs, early-stage startup incubation, and fundraising services for Canadian startups seeking to fundraise in Silicon Valley.

• Manage accelerator portfolio - Provide fractional C-suite leadership to 10+ startups within portfolio.
• Define accelerator programming & workshops. Teach workshops on early-stage GTM strategy, fundraising, finding product-market fit through customer discovery, cap-tables & venture economics, establishing advisory & investor boards.

• Market Research, Product-Market Fit, Commercialization Strategy, Partner Outreach, Technology Assessment
• Assess IP portfolio. Define commercialization strategy – Partnership, Licensing, or Spinoff.
• Evaluate technology feasibility, financial opportunity. Identify product-market fit, development milestones, budget, schedule.
• Conduct partnership outreach – identify key stakeholders and decision makers, network, build partnership opportunities.
• Conduct market research identify market drivers, trends, business opportunities, competition, investment and exit strategies.
• Prospected, laid groundwork, & led partnership & licensing negotiations with multiple Fortune 500, global corporations
• Spun-out bio-polymer startup, led as CEO for 2 years. Identified product-market fit, GTM strategy. Advanced technology development, regulatory conformance, fundraising through dilutive & non-dilutive sources.

OsteoPhilicity leveraged Highmark & Allegheny Health's IP in the bio-polymer space with applications in improving spinal implant devices.

• Successfully concluded formation & license transfer negotiations.
• Established advisory board with world-renown subject-matter experts.
• Defined business plan, value proposition, market messaging, finding product-market fit via customer discovery with SMEs including physicians, surgeons, clinical researchers, payers, providers, and patients.
• Fundraised for (~$3M) for pre-seed & seed rounds.
• Pursued non-dilutive grant opportunities including NSF & NIH SBIR STTR grants.
• Defined regulatory pathway including in-vitro, small-animal & big-animal model studies, and metrics to validate improved outcomes.

PeriphereX is a Series A+ cloud-based mobile-SaaS Visual Field Test targeted towards Glaucoma patients with medium to advanced disease progression.

• Managed partnerships and strategic business relationships by negotiating contract terms and handling conflicts between founding member, technology, and IP providers.
• Established business plan and initial GTM strategy.
• Prepared investor deck, launched & ran fundraising campaign. Raised pre-seed round and positioned business for success in navigating early-stage rounds of funding.

Surfboard was an early mover in the online education space as a cloud enabled enterprise SaaS software.

• Fundraised $1M through F&F and angel rounds.
• Led sales, marketing, and product verticals of business as sole C-suite member.
• Grew revenue over 20% MoM over 3 years towards asset exit.
• Found product-market fit in healthcare, fitness, technology industries that require continued education unit certifications.

• Hired team of 10 firmware, hardware, and software engineers.
• Led design, development, product management for 6 products from inception to mass production.
• Selected & managed vendors, production & manufacturing partners, supply chain partners to ensure success of project within schedule & budget.

• Led definition, prototyping, design, development, production of modems and satellite controllers to meet diverse market needs.
• Engineered superior product line of digital encoder position sensors, saving $1M/year by replacing legacy analog technology.
• Managed satellite controller product line ($5M annual rev.) across 3 corp. divisions - engineering, manufacturing, operations.

Worked on the F-22, F-35, AWACS, and UAV-drone platform. Engineering & development responsibilities included -

• Rapid Prototyping, Statistical Algorithm Development, Mathematical Modeling & Simulation, Systems Design.
• R&D for rapid problem solving, using supervised, unsupervised, & reinforced learning w/ synthetic data in Matlab, Simulink, C++.