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Ann Bordetsky
Partner at NEA
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Ann Bordetsky is a Partner at NEA with a background in strategic partnerships, leadership, and business development. She has held key roles at companies like Uber and Twitter, overseeing initiatives in business development and product management.
Ann Bordetsky has made significant investments in companies like Glacier, Tract, and Contra, showcasing her expertise in ClimateTech/CleanTech, Marketplaces, and SaaS sectors. Her current role as Partner at NEA highlights her leadership in seed and series A/B investments in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - Current
Early stage investor in Generative AI, Application Software and High-Growth Consumer. NEA Profile: https://www.nea.com/team/ann-bordetsky Linktree: linktr.ee/annbordetsky
New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in technology and healthcare startups.
Board Director
2022
Glacier is an innovation leader in AI-powered robotic waste technology.
Raised $4,500,000.00 from Elemental Impact.
Board Observer
2023
Perplexity is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.
Raised $165,000,000.00 from IVP, Wayra and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Board Director
2021
Advisor
2020
Pano uses deep learning AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real time.
Raised $45,000,000.00 from January Ventures, 5G Open Innovation Lab, Convective Capital, T-Mobile Ventures, Jade Van Doren, Congruent Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Initialized Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Kevin Mahaffey.
Advisor
2018
January Ventures is an early stage VC fund. We are replacing the friends & family round and re-writing the networks in venture.
Angel Investor & Advisor
2018 - 2021
Angel investing in future of work, consumer, marketplaces and climate (pre-seed / seed), excited to work with visionary founders and builders. I coach founders on product strategy, GTM, partnerships and CEO leadership skills. More than 50% of my angel investments are female founder / CEO led companies. Companies: - Motif (SaaS), AI co-pilot for developer docs, https://motif.land/ - Liveflow (SaaS), auto-pilot for financial reporting, https://www.liveflow.io/ - Ethena (SaaS), corporate training that doesn't suck, https://www.goethena.com/ - CarbonChain (Climate Tech), carbon accounting for industrials, https://carbonchain.com/ - Pano AI (Climate Tech), AI-powered wildfire detection and response, https://www.pano.ai/ - Milo (Consumer), AI-powered family assistant, https://www.hellomilo.io/ - UpSmith (SaaS), UpSkilling platform to the trades, https://upsmith.com/ - Shef (Consumer / Marketplace), authentic home cooked meals delivered, https://shef.com/ - Warmly (SaaS), modern lead gen for Sales teams, https://www.getwarmly.com/ - Pando (SaaS), career pathing for Gen Z professionals, https://www.pando.com/ - TRM Labs (SaaS), digital compliance for web3 / blockchain, https://www.trmlabs.com/ - ConfirmHR (SaaS), reimagining the resume, https://www.confirmhr.com/ - Mural (SaaS), enterprise collaboration platform for creative teams, https://www.mural.co/ - Elpha (Consumer), #1 community for women in tech, https://elpha.com/
Chief Operating Officer
2018 - 2020
Acquired by Live Nation / Ticketmaster, backed by a16z, Upfront Ventures.
Rival is a technology company building a platform for live events.
Raised $33,000,000.00 from Upfront Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Director of Business Development | Strategic Initiatives
2015 - 2018
Director, Business Development | Strategic Initiatives I lead Uber’s Business Development teams focused on strategic priorities for the core business, including Product Partnerships, Loyalty, Travel / Airports, Safety and others. My team is responsible for leading partnership strategy, developing and negotiating deals, and managing partnerships programs to drive growth and strategic value for the business. We champion big bets, pilot new ideas, partner business units on go-to-market strategies and drive excellence in execution with Product, Operations, Marketing and Policy. I love building growth initiatives, starting teams from scratch, driving turnarounds when things don’t work out as planned and working across all facets of a complex global business. In 2016/2017, I also built and led the global Women of Uber organization for employees (aka the "Lean In" of Uber) to champion women in the workplace through community, professional development, diversity & inclusion initiatives. https://www.uber.com/diversity/women-of-uber/ We’re hiring! Come join a team of top notch dealmakers and well-rounded business leaders to help us build and grow the world’s most dynamic mobility platform. https://www.uber.com/careers/ Product & Platform Business Development | Strategic Partnerships I joined Uber to work on high-impact product partnerships and growth bets. I built product partnerships and new verticals across many areas of the core business, including: - Expanding Uber’s Developer Platform and Partner API Program - Developing Uber’s Enterprise Channel Partner strategy and first channel deals - Launching Uber’s first B2B product and transportation-as-a-service offering for businesses to schedule, request and purchase transportation for customers - Leading strategic partnerships and transactions I built partnerships and negotiated deals for Uber across Tech, eCommerce, Enterprise, Automotive, Mobility, Brands / Retail, Healthcare, Data and Transit.
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Head of Commerce & Product Business Development
2013 - 2015
Led strategic partnerships and product business development for Twitter’s priority product initiatives, including driving partner strategy, negotiating complex deals and leading cross-functional development and execution of partner programs. Built and led high performing business development and partner management team responsible for strategic partnerships that launch and scale new consumer and revenue products, including commerce, media, video, messaging, discovery, etc. Developed and launched Twitter’s Commerce business, which enables mobile commerce on the Twitter platform for consumers, brands, businesses, nonprofits and celebrities. Negotiated numerous foundational deals for Commerce with top technology, e-commerce, payments partners (such as the partnership with Stripe to launch the Relay Commerce API). https://blog.twitter.com/2015/more-ways-to-sell-directly-on-twitter https://business.twitter.com/buy-now https://blog.twitter.com/2014/testing-a-way-for-you-to-make-purchases-on-twitter https://blog.twitter.com/2014/introducing-twitter-offers https://blog.twitter.com/2015/political-donations-now-through-a-tweet
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
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