Shai Goldman

CEO

New York, New York, United States13 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led ambassador initiatives at Brex for startup community.
Organized major conferences connecting founders and VCs.
Achieved top quartile performance in venture capital investments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Venture Capital expert with strong community engagement skills.

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Core Skills

Business DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipCommunity BuildingSalesNetworkingEvent ManagementInvestment AnalysisPortfolio Management

Other Skills

Business StrategyCommunicationSaaSFundraisingSocial MediaE-commerceFinanceDigital MediaMarketingMobile DevicesVenture CapitalManagement

About

Passionate about supporting and empowering founders, investors, and operators. As an ambassador at Brex, I work closely with the early stage startup community around the US, hosting IRL gatherings, providing resources, and facilitating introductions. I am also a blogger and an angel investor, sharing insights and data on VC funds, fundraising, and startups. At Brex, I am part of a team of experts who offer a neobank platform that replaces multiple financial tools and services for startups, unicorns, and VC firms. I leverage my extensive network and experience as a former VC at 500 Startups to identify, engage, and onboard potential customers, partners, and advocates. I also collaborate with sales, marketing, BD, ops, service, underwriting, and product teams at Brex to deliver value and feedback. Some of the skills that I use and develop in this role are entrepreneurship, business development, business strategy, and communication.

Experience

Next wave nyc

Partner

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · New York City Metropolitan Area · Remote

a VC firm led by operators & founders , more info here: https://www.nextwave.nyc/
primarily focusing on: , B2B native AI applications, Pre-Seed + Seed rounds , $50K investment size
Investments include CrewAI, Elly, Originalis, FutureMoney

Brex

Director, Head of Ambassadors & Relationship Management

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Head of both Ambassador (evangelism / sales / community) and Relationship Management (customer success / community) teams.
Launched & lead three initiatives: field sales , field marketing & field customer success. Recognized as a top sales leader via the President's Club award.
Brex is full stack financial services/software offering startups, unicorns , fast growing companies and VC firms: Brex replaces your separate corporate checking accounts, high yield money market, bill pay, invoicing, corporate credit cards, expense management software, corporate travel booking portal and rolls into one unified platform, which is unique in market.
sign up for Brex for free via this specific link (extra perks!) http://brex.com/shai

EntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCommunication

Silicon valley bank

Managing Director

Jan 2014 – Jan 2021 · 7 yrs · Greater New York City Area

Recognized for President's Club, a top award for the best professional at SVB at sales.
Work closely with VCs (established funds and emerging managers), Founders, LPs and Corporates. Related to the SVB platform, am actively involved in debt opportunities for tech companies, venture funds, GPs. Am also involved in sourcing opportunities for SVB Capital's Fund of Funds (FoF), direct investment funds, debt funds and affiliated funds (Founder Circle Capital).
Some of the startups debt deals that I worked on and advocated for: Hadrian, Komodo Health, Octane Lending, Movable Ink, etc
Other companies I sourced included UiPath (IPO, $42B valuation), Wish (IPO, $5B valuation), Barkbox (IPO, $2.4B+valuation), Thumbtack ($1.7B valuation), etc.
Organized three Founder/VCs focused conferences:
Healthcare Conference Presenters included Babylon Health, Quartet Health, Clover Health, PokiDok, One Drop, NEA, etc
https://svbhealthtech.splashthat.com/
SVB Fintech Mashup. Amazing lineup of companies and investors speaking at the event. Plaid, Circle, Klarna, Transferwise, Ribbit, Nyca, Bain, Social Leverage, Canvas, etc. https://svbfintechmashup.splashthat.com/
Marketplace focused conference
https://semilshah.com/2014/10/18/classifying-marketplaces-startups-via-svb-mashup-in-nyc/

500 global

Venture Partner

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Greater New York City Area

Invested out of the 2012 vintage $43.8M Fund II
Fund performance: Net IRR 17.0%, Net DPI 2.55x, Net TVPI 5.2x - top quartile
Our of the eight investments I made, four have been acquired to date and one shut down. Sunrise was acquired by Microsoft for $100M, 11.5x cash return (DPI) on the investment and a 320% realized IRR. 15Five is held as a 25x unrealized gain. Wiser was acquired for a gain. Clothes Horse was acquired for a partial gain. Pijon shut down. Invested in the Series A follow on round for Barkbox (went IPO). Invested in the Series A for VTS (last round was at a $1.7B valuation).
Helped raise the $44M Fund II (brought in the largest LP in the fund, $5M from Docomo), launched/managed the NYC coworking office, made investments eight seed stage investments (Sunrise, 15Five, Wiser , Clothes Horse , EquityZen , Enchanted Diamonds, Pijon, ViralGains), worked on 20+ other seed stage investments, helped with portfolio management, assisted in finding/screening startups for the accelerator, organized community events and also covered several geographies (NYC/Boston/Israel).