Ben Einstein
President & Chief Operating Officer at Happier
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
President & Chief Operating Officer
2020 - Current
Leading meditation app and digital media company founded in 2015. Transformed the business to achieve self-sustainability, explored new business units to drive growth, and developed strategies and operations to ensure long-term survivability and customer impact. Positioned the company for a 2024 relaunch with all-new marketing, redesigned product, and differentiated video content, all under a new brand 'Happier.'
EIR
2019 - 2020
Hardware and deep-tech focused lifecycle venture capital firm founded in 2015. Temporary role to explore starting another hardware business.
Founder & General Partner
2012 - 2019
Hardware-focused pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012. Conceived, launched, and scaled venture fund. Raised and deployed >$100M across three funds. Supported 80 companies through pre-seed, seed, and Series A financings, leading to several IPOs and many acquisitions.
Bolt is a pre-seed venture firm investing where the digital and physical world intersect.
Raised $3,900,000.00 from Mick Mountz, Logitech, Foundry Group, Grishin Robotics, Eran Egozy, Bantam Group, Bruce Sachs, Autodesk, River Valley Investors and Semyon Dukach.
Principal
2008 - 2012
Fee-for-service product design consultancy for hardware products. Built first-generation products across a range of industries including consumer electronics, clean tech, industrial process automation, and sporting goods.
Design Consultant
2007 - 2009