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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
First Name Last Name
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Still Female.
Companies with female founders perform 63% better than those of their
male peers.
But women aren’t getting any funding. Only 2.7% of venture capital dollars went towards female-founded companies in
Jenny is an entrepreneur, operator, board member, advisor, and investor in tech for over 25 years.
Jenny is a General Partner at Freestyle. After graduating from Wharton undergrad and working as a CPA in NYC, Jenny became disillusioned with corporate life. She quit her job, backpacked around the world for a year, and landed in Palo Alto. She worked at a consumer software company where she launched its Internet division (yes, it was 1997!) and lived through its IPO. This experience got her hooked on the Valley way – combining big ideas, smart people, hard work, and a little bit of luck – and great things will ensue.
She then went to Stanford business school, but dropped out after her first year to co-found her first company, WeddingChannel.com (acquired: XOXO), aggregating gift registries of all the major retailers, and after that, Bella Pictures (acquired: CPI). She later angel invested in, consulted for, and/or advised great entrepreneurs and companies such as Discord, Minted, MainStreetHub, and others before joining Freestyle.
She loves what she does at Freestyle which is meeting with incredible entrepreneurs on a daily basis and hustling alongside her portfolio companies. She also gets tremendous joy from being being a cofounder and active member of All Raise, a non-profit dedicated to increasing diversity in tech.
During her time offline, she loves to spend time with her husband, three kids, and their puppy. She also hikes, travels, scuba dives, reads loads of non-fiction, and spends time with people who broaden her view of the world and make her laugh (preferably, a lot!)
Tim Young is a Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures with two exits as an entrepreneur and over 20 years of experience advising and investing in 100+ early stage startups. Tim has been fascinated by technology since his mother taught him to code in Fortran at the age of 10. He went on to study engineering and become a patent attorney and tech entrepreneur.
In addition to his work as a VC, Tim is an adjunct professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law, and he’s passionate about helping to grow the region’s tech sector. He’s also worked as a public defender in Anchorage, Alaska, where he often fought to protect the rights of the indigenous population.
Prior to co-founding Eniac in 2009, Tim founded Bridge, an enterprise software company focusing on corporate training in Beijing, China, which he led to an 8-figure exit. Prior to Bridge, Tim led product at Quoteship, a B2B marketplace for logistics, which exited to Logistics.com (NASD: ICGE). Tim also spent time coding at ExxonMobil, managing product at BAE Systems, and advising startups on Patent and other IP issues at MoFo.
During downtime, you can find Tim exploring the mountains and oceans — he’s an avid surfer and sailor. Tim is also passionate about combating climate change and sits on the board of the Institute for Energy & Climate Strategies (IECS).
Tim received his BSE in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received an award for cancer research from Bristol-Myers Squibb. He also received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Tim is a member of the State Bar of California and is a US Patent and Trademark Office registered attorney.
The partners call Tim the closer because of his ability to find the best partners and close rounds for our portfolio companies.
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I’ve been early into the most challenging/worst/something funny
Started in cellular in 1994 (add photo of person on big phone)
Internet 1.0 1996
Other approach
x years too early for
2000 x years too early for CleanTech
Quote from VC “Why would we care about electricity?”
x years too early for SaaS
Coded her middle school’s attendance system in Basic in 19__ (and maybe removed one of her own absences)
Started kindergarten at 4
Hippie school without
Skipped 2nd grade b/c finished weekly assignments end of Monday and bothered the rest of the class tues thru friday. Finished grade 1 assignments and was assigned grade 2 to give her enough to do tues-fridays
Went to “regular” middle school and revealed the lack of history taught in the previous
“Who is Jamestown?”
“Who won WW2?”
Designed a checkbook and was given a wallet with money
Obsessed with cash registers
Once walked across a backyard bridge 100 times in the rain because she had said she would do it
Kicked off the tennis team (you’ll have to ask her to tell you)
Captain of gymnastics, homecoming, valedictorian
16 graduate