BY

Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta

Toronto, Ontario

Overview

Work Experience

  • Board Member

    2023 - Current

  • Founding Partner

    2016

    Highline Beta is a hybrid corporate venture studio and venture capital firm that helps ambitious companies grow beyond their core through internal and external innovation.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Requity Homes went through Highline Beta's Venture Studio. Requity Homes is a tech-enabled real estate platform that creates a fair, feasible & flexible new path to owning a home.

  • Board Member

    2015

    Working with the Proposify team to help grow the company successfully. Proposify helps you write and design stunning proposal documents, collaborate with team members, and keep track of new business you pitch.

  • Board Member

    2019 - 2021

    Relay Platform was incubated in partnership with Highline Beta and American Family Insurance. The company was spun-out in 2019. Relay Platform provides instant quotes and client proposals for commercial insurance agents and brokers.

  • VP Product

    2014 - 2016

    Lead and manage product development of VarageSale across web, iOS and Android. Work with the team to continue to grow VarageSale successfully, and assist operationally with recruiting, etc.

  • Director, Product Management

    2012 - 2014

    Continuing my efforts at building out GoInstant's technology and products, working with customers and realizing the vision for the Shared Web. GoInstant ended up delivering Salesforce SOS to Service Cloud, a mobile SDK for Salesforce customers to provide real-time video & audio support in-app. I worked with a great team of engineers to get the initial product built, through multiple keynote Dreamforce presentations, before leaving to pursue new opportunities.

  • VP Product

    2011 - 2014

    Focused on making a fantastic product that customers love. Driving product roadmap, heavy duty customer development, and building a great business. GoInstant is changing how people share the web. Zero downloads and zero plugins; you can instantly share your web experience with others.

  • Board Member

    2011 - 2012

    I'm on the Board of Directors at Localmind, after working with the company initially through Year One Labs.

  • Founder / Publisher

    2010 - 2012

    I instigated NextMontreal and serve as its Publisher. NextMontreal is a hub for news and opinion on everything tech in Montreal. We cover startups and big companies, Web, mobile, gaming, life sciences and more.

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