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Albert Lee
Venture Partner at Silence
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Albert Lee is a seasoned professional in climate investing, known for founding and coaching investors. With a background in creative direction and design strategy, he has held key roles at reputable organizations like IDEO and New Enterprise Associates, contributing to his success in the field. Currently, he serves as a Venture Partner at Silence and has made impactful investments in various sectors, including Fashion, Retail, and FinTech in New York City.
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2024 - Current
Early-stage climate tech venture fund supporting climate companies globally.
Partner
2014
[Roster currently closed] Work with start-up founders to build generational companies and investors to manage enduring funds.
Partner
2019 - 2023
Connect Ventures is an investment partnership between leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and global venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). With access to CAA’s unmatched resources, relationships, and expertise spanning the global media, entertainment, and sports landscape, combined with the deep investing and company building expertise of NEA’s world-class technology practice, Connect Ventures identifies and accelerates the growth of early-stage consumer-focused businesses.
Connect Ventures is uniquely positioned to identify and support the most innovative entrepreneurs
Operating Partner - Product & Design
2016 - 2023
NEA partners with founders to turn big ideas and bold aspirations into the products, services and solutions that shape the future. With four decades of investing experience and approximately $25 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2022, and invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of investing includes more than 270 portfolio company IPOs and more than 450 mergers and acquisitions, across sectors, stages and geographies. We are investors; but we are also technologists, inventors, operators, physicians, researchers, marketers, and yes, even entrepreneurs. We bring these disciplines together under one global fund, united by a shared passion for innovation and a collaborative culture. We've invested in consumer companies such as Jet.com, Robin Hood, Casper, Goop, Mejuri, Pocket, and Masterclass, as well as enterprise companies such as Tableau, Workday, MuleSoft, Cloudflare, and Plaid, among many others.
Designer-In-Residence
2015 - 2016
New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in technology and healthcare startups.
Executive Coach
2015 - 2020
Reboot is a collection of top coaches and consultants dedicated to helping Founders and leaders achieve their potential. Reboot was founded by Jerry Colonna, a VC partner with Fred Wilson in the early days of Silicon Alley's start-up movement. As a sought-after coach since, Jerry has helped many top entrepreneurs uncover the strength and soul of their leadership capabilities. Sharing a common philosophy and approach, Reboot coaches serve the start-up community globally.
Reboot is first and foremost a coaching company.
Special Partner - Product & Design
2015 - 2019
Juxtapose is a multidisciplinary organization whose mission is to build high growth technology companies in partnership with a like-minded group of entrepreneurs, operators, and investors. Juxtapose's philosophy is to work slowly and with discipline, focusing on businesses that leverage our expertise in commercial strategy, human-centered design, technology, and venture capital. Juxtapose and it's associated investment vehicles are funded with permanent capital from a select group of institutional investors, entrepreneurs, and executives from around the world.
Juxtapose partners with entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies.
Managing Director - IDEO NY
2010 - 2014
Co-Founder
2010 - 2013
Popplet is a collaborative white boarding tool, used in K-6 education for visual thinking. The product has been downloaded over 25M+ times and is being used across 130+ countries. In the education space, Popplet has been featured by Apple as a leading education tool numerous times and is used by teachers and students all over the globe.
Popplet is a start-up dedicated to making fun and gestural interactive experiences for everyone.
Board Member
2009 - 2011
AIGA/NY is to demonstrate design impact & cultivate future of design in NYC.
Visiting Assistant Professor
2009 - 2010