Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Andreessen Horowitz (Airbnb, Asana, Slack, Facebook, Lyft, Coinbase) as lead investor. As of the Seed Round: 15K lifetime beta members, 25,000 total orders, 155K+ person waitlist. $8M+ all-time revenue. Angel investors incl. Netflix co-founder, former Twitter CEO, and the founder of Techcrunch. Featured in NY Times, WSJ, Forbes, Techcrunch, & 100+ podcast interviews.

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Colossal was founded by Ben Lamm, a serial entrepreneur with five exits to companies including Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) and Accenture (NYSE: ACN), and world-renowned geneticist and serial biotech founder Dr. George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences at MIT, who helped launch the Human Genome Project, and whose contributions in the development of CRISPR nearly won him the 2020 Nobel Prize.
• The scientific advisory board includes Helen Hobbs (Board of Pfizer) and Linda Avey (co-founder of 23andMe).
• Colossal is building the world’s first de-extinction and species preservation company. They are currently in the process of the de-extinction of the Woolly Mammoth (seriously). The UN has declared that 1,000,000 animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. In fact, 30,000 species per year on average are currently being driven to extinction; 6 per hour and 150 per day. The World Animal Foundation predicts that up to 50% of all species could become extinct by 2050.
• Colossal is leading the charge to restore what has been lost or is at risk of being lost. Colossal has four main business models including government and corporate contracts to bring back key species of plants and animals into certain ecosystems (reefs, forests, lakes and rivers) to reduce atmospheric heating and stabilize nature.
• "Colossal" because of the ambition to repopulate megafauna.
• "Colossal" because of the Wolly Mammoth the company is working to bring back.
• "Colossal" because of the size of the problem that they're fighting to fix.
• Can the harm humanity has caused be undone?
• The answer is "maybe" but only if we work towards it.
• Colossal is leading that change.
• 🦣

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

• Next47 is a global venture firm backed by Siemens (OTCMKTS: SIEGY) with $1.2B of commitments to foster innovation at the corporate leveraging its resources, relationships, and ecosystem. Program locations include Beijing, Berlin, Palo Alto, Paris, and Tel Aviv.

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Passport is building the best international shipping carrier for eCommerce companies. The company has signed +400 brands including KylieSkin (Kylie Jenner) and Native (P&G company). The founders previously worked at Facebook/McKinsey and exited their previous company to Byte Foods. Investors include Ryan Hoover, M13, and Kleiner Perkins.

Sep 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• Largest mobile blockchain metaverse globally with ~$20M USD in capital raised to-date— latest venture round led by Animoca Brands. More than 3M registered users enjoy Upland; which helped the company grow to a team of +140 people at a now $300M USD valuation. Partners include FIFA as well as the NFL Players Association which awarded Upland "Licensee of the Year". Upland is one of Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech.

Dec 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• 500 Global (previously 500 Startups) is one of the most active investors in the world and operates as an early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator. The organization has invested in over 2,300 companies including Canva, CreditKarma, Twilio, Udemy, GitLab, Intercom, and many more. 500 Startups has had +60 exits including a $403M acquisition of Makerbot by Stratasys, a $350M acquisition of Wildfire by Google, and a $117M acquisition of Simple by BBVA.
• 500 Global has locations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Miami, Dubai, Bahrain, Istanbul, Seoul, Singapore, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, and Kuala Lumpur along with programs in London and Oslo.

Dec 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Draper University is a Silicon Valley education institution founded by Tim Draper. The organization teaches entrepreneurship to +1,000 students from 60 different countries and has launched +300 companies that have raised +$51M USD in funding from venture investors.
• Past Guest Lecturers include:
• Tesla CEO Elon Musk
• Box CEO Aaron Levie
• Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
• Co-founders from Lyft, Twitch, and Pandora

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, California

• Mobile ordering for local coffee shops. Cloosiv aims to offer local coffee shops what the Starbucks app offers Starbucks: For consumers, order ahead and skip the line. For Starbucks, this is a $1.6B USD / yr business unit, which represents nearly 13% of their yearly revenue.
• Cloosiv has been downloaded by 125,000 users, generating +$10M USD in revenue for the coffee shops they order from.
• Investors in Cloosiv include Y Combinator, Lachy Groom (previously Head of Issuing at Stripe), Laura Behrens Wu (CEO of Shippo), Roger Dickey (Founder and former CEO of Gigster), Brad Powers (CTO of Passport), and John Kim (co-founder of the chat API company SendBird).
• Update:
• Cloosiv grew to become the highest-rated mobile ordering app for coffee shops in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The startup has now merged with Odeko.com ☕️

Jul 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Startups join an acceleration program and elite community that includes mentorship, equity-free support, and access to Silicon Valley experts. The program helps founders build and scale great products by matching them with the best of Google— its people, network, and advanced technologies.

Feb 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 2 mos · Berkeley, California

• Equipping students with in-depth knowledge of startup Growth Hacking the current Social Media landscape. We cover opportunities to leverage social media for business, for personal branding, as a traction channel, and for entrepreneurship.
• Guests in the class have included top decision makers from:
• Slack (Raised $1.4B USD IPO NYSE: WORK)
• Getaround (Raised $403M USD)
• Quora (Raised $226M USD, +100M users)
• Fiverr (Raised $111M USD IPO NYSE: FVRR)
• Matador (Raised $9M USD)
• Hackabu (One of the Top 5 Largest Growth Hacking Agencies in Europe)
• First Media US (+55B views on Facebook. Largest media publisher in the world for millennial women).

Sep 2018 – Feb 2019 · 5 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• Mentored +30 startups in Istanbul and San Francisco on the topics of growth, customer acquisition, and go to market strategy. Startups ranged from early stage (MVP) to profitable (+$100k USD MRR) to corporate backed. This experience included 4 trips to Istanbul to present a keynote, conduct one on one sessions, give feedback, and participate in a demo day.
• Highlight startups include:
• Foreks (The Bloomberg of Turkey)
• Netmera (Deloitte Tech Fast 50 Turkey Award)
• IBTECH (Founded by QNB Finansbank)

Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 10 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• We make content for VCs, startups, and their ecosystem.
• GrowthMasters is now the largest-reaching LinkedIn organic agency globally with 500M+ views generated for 250+ clients. Our amazing clients have worked with a16z, Bessemer Ventures, FIFA, Google, Stanford University, Netflix, Salesforce, Disney, LEGO, and many more.
• If you'd like to work with the best team for your brand, please feel free to send me a direct message.
• Happy to see if we could support you (or at least recommend someone who can). 🚀

Apr 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr · Palo Alto, California

• Head of Growth for now $35.5MM USD VC-funded Admix (previously Advir); an AR/VR Adtech platform allowing developers to monetize their creations in the Mixed Reality space. It's the first and only programmatic route to buy VR/AR media from premium advertising platforms like Yahoo or AOL.
• I was the first hire and worked on the growth strategy for the company leading up to its $2.1M venture-backed investment and acquisition of VRFocus.

Nov 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 5 mos · Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Served on the examining board of a fund of funds ($34MM USD total) invested in several accelerator programs throughout Argentina.
• Tech Accelerators from around the country applied for this government subsidy to cover expansion expenses in their programs and afford them the availability to grow their portfolio startups in sectors ranging from agriculture and finance, to entertainment and virtual reality.
• Applicant accelerators included:
• Wayra, NXTP Labs, Globant, and many other programs that are improving the startup ecosystem in Argentina.
• Juan participated as one of six judges in the tech accelerator panel to research each program, its monetization strategy, traction, leadership, talent recruitment and advisory board before interviewing the programs' leadership team and casting a vote.
• This initiative was made possible by the government in order to help take the Argentine startup ecosystem into a new era.

Apr 2017 – Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Jose, California

• Partner, Mentor, and VP of Technology at Manos Accelerator helping the organization roll out a scalable online accelerator to universities across the US and Latinamerica.
• Accelerator partners include: Samsung NEXT, EY, Amazon, DocuSign, eBay, Salesforce, Facebook, and Silicon Valley Bank.
• Juan has served as a solutions architect to the online accelerator, overseeing the preproduction of the web program and leading the team of programmers building the platform for web and mobile. He also hosts the Manos Accelerator via Google Launchpad podcast and grew the Manos Facebook community to +3,000 founders in LATAM and +1,000 in Europe.

Sep 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Palo Alto, California

• The digital travel agency that helps you plan your next adventure.
• As CEO of NomadApp, I've lead my team through:
• Graduating from the Plug & Play Tech Center - Travel Batch accelerator in Silicon Valley
• Growing our community to more than 70k followers on social media
• Generating a waitlist of over 5k travelers
• Earning 1st place at Harvard University's "Success: The Only Choice" summit.

Sep 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Currently on the board as advisor covering customer acquisition, marketing, and pre-launch positioning for Launchorb.
• Highlights include:
• 2x growth in Instagram following (+21,000)
• 3x growth in email waitlist for app launch
• Launchorb is the universal online media display and sharing platform where the best content from any medium rises to the top. It is the perfect place to find the most relevant media because its core feature combines dozens of social media platforms into one place so users can find their next favorite thing.

Apr 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Austria area

• Helping businesses create predictable lead streams through the internet, creating real ROI from Social Media and being successful online. Creating growth strategies for startups and SMEs.
• www.evacreder.com working in close cooperation with www.performance-marketing.at
• Clients include:
• M-TEC (Facebook and blog strategy)
• Greenovate Construction (Facebook Ads and Web Development)
• Potential AG (Content Strategy)
• RoC Sports (Facebook and blog strategy)
• NomadApp (Instagram, Snapchat, Blog, Facebook, Twitter Strategy)
• We sold a $300,000 USD house for Greenovate Construction via Facebook Ads after investing only USD $300.

Jan 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Houses that:
• Decrease your electric bill by 70%
• Lower your home insurance by 60%
• Are tornado resistant
• Are fire resistant
• www.greenovateconstruction.com

Jul 2010 – Feb 2019 · 8 yrs 7 mos

• KC-based digital development and consulting agency. Working with upwards of 70 contractors to bring tech solutions spanning from web and mobile apps to touch screen software and videography.