Austin Neudecker
Managing Partner at Weave Growth Partners
Austin Neudecker
Managing Partner at Weave Growth Partners
San Diego, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2020 - Current
Weave partners with owners of small & mid-sized businesses to unlock additional growth. Weave brings technical expertise, growth strategies, transaction experience, and automation to give our portfolio a competitive advantage.
Co-Founder, Board Chairperson Emeritus
2012
Upon moving to San Diego, realized how siloed the ecosystem was, founded a group (4 original co-founders) to build a more supportive startup community. Since then we've create 7 entrepreneur-centric programs, each running many events over the past 2 years, helped over 200 companies, looped in the best 50 successful entrepreneurs and investors in town, held ~60 different events and started the annual San Diego Startup Week (in its 2nd year now). Personally, advise a handful of companies and run 2-3 events per month. Designed the EvoStart accelerator program and spend ~10-20 hours per month with the companies. Website: http://startupsandiego.co/ Website for SD Startup Week: http://sandiegostartupweek.com/
Product
2017 - 2020
Temi builds tools to make your life easier. Our team of talented engineers, artificial intelligence/machine learning scientists, and product pros are cracking the code on functional speech recognition.
Head of Growth
2014 - 2020
Leading growth initiatives for Rev.com, the premier transcription, translation, captioning & subtitling company.
Co-Founder
2013 - 2019
San Diego Startup Week (SDSW) is the region’s premier catalyst for innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurialism. Featuring a week of scheduled events, panels, and revelry in the heart of downtown San Diego, Startup Week showcases leading innovators in Software as a Service (SaaS), consumer Internet, mobile tech, hardware, and defense tech. Participants include San Diego’s brightest entrepreneurs, top-tier regional and national investors, strategic advisors, and high profile community and political supporters, all of whom contribute to San Diego’s thriving startup ecosystem.
Co-Founder, Business Lead
2012 - 2013
Medical software company that facilitates and automates communications with patients. Built a network of Nurse Practitioners to triage low-level medical problems via web & mobile. Eventually, pivoted to a SaaS solution for NPs to manage their chronic-care patients (automating some communication) to reduce readmission and cost. Y Combinator company, S'12. Raised a round of seed financing.
Co-Founder, Product & Tech
2011 - 2012
Invented and developed technology for a smart pill bottle that uses capacitance to determine the amount of medication in the bottle at all times and communicates wirelessly to patients and providers to improve adherence and improve care.
Associate
2011 - 2012
Worked at highly successful seed-stage venture capital firm ushering deals through the entire process (networking, sourcing, meetings, diligence, investment decisions, and portfolio work). Right-hand to the peerless Gil Beyda.
Young Entrepreneur
2010 - 2012
Worked as a sourcing agent for a large, west-coast venture capital firm covering the mid-Atlantic to NYC corridor, then stayed on a second year as a mentor. Sourced about 75 opportunities, of which about 30% were funded by VC funds.
MBA Candidate
2010 - 2012
· Co-President - Entrepreneurship Club (2nd largest on campus) · Dir. of Venture Capital - P.E./V.C. Club · V.P. - Founders' Club · International Venture Capital Investment Competition - 1st place · For fun: V.P. - Film Club, DanceStudio (Soloist), Whartones (Tenor)
Education
Bachelor of Science
2001 - 2005
MBA
2010 - 2012
Bachelor of Science
2001 - 2005
International Baccalaureate
1997 - 2001