Webinar
Inside the Decision Room: Navigating the Venture Capital Vetting Process and Portfolio Criteria
Join us in our latest video, where we pull back the curtain on how venture capitalists make crucial decisions. Delve into our meticulous vetting process for selecting portfolio companies and uncover the key criteria we use to define a good fit within our investment portfolio. This episode serves as your insider’s guide to understanding our behind-the-scenes dynamics that contribute to building our funds’ portfolios.
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Vital Proteins is the #1 selling Collagen Protein brand on Amazon and a Top 5 Amazon Health & Household product. Jason will share his strategy and approach to digital growth including understanding the Growth Imperative, What is Growth, How to Drive Growth, and Building the Infrastructure for Growth – Team, Tech, and Culture. He will show how to grow a DTC brand through data-driven, hypothesis-based experimentation. Jason will cover specific case studies from his work as Chief Digital Officer at Vital Proteins and draw from his prior experience at Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK) and Anker (SZSE: 300866). This is a great session for any executive who wants to learn more about digital growth for their company and brand.
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About your presenters
Managing Partner
Edward has 15+ years of investment experience in the U.S. and China, including a successful track record with investments such as Cruise Automation (acq. by GM), Life360 (IPO), Palantir (IPO), and Brave Software. In addition, Edward has served on the limited partner advisory committees at Cendana Capital and Ten Eleven Ventures, and he has deep operating experience at tech and cybersecurity companies. Most recently, he was Director of Investments at enterprise security company Qianxin, where he led $700 million in fundraising, ran multiple M&A deals, and managed a large investment portfolio. As Assistant GM for Qianxin, he also incubated their cybersecurity spinout fund Security Capital. At 360, he led International Investments and Strategic Development. He started his venture career as Vice President at DCM, a global early-stage VC firm managing $4 billion. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from UCLA, where he is a Kauffman Fellow (class of ’15).
Jason is a senior executive with over 15 years of experience leading some of the world’s most successful high-growth companies in the US and Asia-Pacific. He has a proven track record of building new ventures from scratch, blitz-scaling customer acquisition, architecting brand strategy, exceeding revenue targets, hiring A-level teams, and leading global cross-functional teams. He has raised over $50M+ in venture capital financing and was a key early-stage player at multiple companies with successful IPOs or exits, most recently at Vital Proteins which was acquired by Nestle ($92B in revenue in FY20). Jason is currently Chief Digital Officer at Vital Proteins, a Nestle Health Science company. Prior to his current role, Jason was the Chief Marketing Officer at Filld, an app-based service delivering gas to your car, which grew nearly 40X during his two-year tenure. Prior to this, Jason was Senior Director of Marketing at Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world’s largest freelancing website, where he helped lead the global rebrand and grow the business from $60M to $110M in 17 months. Before Upwork, Jason served as Head of Marketing at Anker, a consumer electronics company that became the first-ever 3P seller on Amazon’s marketplace to successfully IPO (SZSE: 300866). Other previous leadership roles include: Walmart.com (led Black Friday campaigns), eBay (led geo-expansion in emerging markets). Jason holds a BA in Political Science from UCLA, and an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and their adorable set of boy-girl twins.