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Elaine Zelby

Venture Partner at SignalFire

Oakland, California

Overview 

Elaine Zelby is a Co-Founder and Chief Spearfisherwoman at Tofu, with a background in product management and growth roles at companies like SignalFire, ConsenSys, and Slack. She has invested in various startups and served on the Board of Directors for SVEN, showcasing a strong track record in venture capital and strategic leadership within the tech industry. Elaine Zelby has excelled in roles such as Venture Partner at SignalFire and Growth and Product Marketing Lead at ConsenSys, demonstrating a keen eye for innovative startups and a talent for driving product development and marketing strategies. Her involvement in diverse investments and leadership positions underscores her expertise in fostering growth and success within the tech startup ecosystem.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder and Chief Spearfisherwoman

    2023 - Current

    Putting top-of-funnel on autopilot for B2B marketing teams

Tofu offers a single platform for generating multichannel campaigns at scale that deliver opportunities for B2B marketing teams.

Raised $5,000,000.00 from SignalFire, Stage 2 Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Index Ventures and Power of N.

  • Venture Partner

    2023

  • Partner

    2020 - 2023

  • Principal & Director of Growth

    2018 - 2020

SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.

  • Board Of Directors

    2019

SVEN helps companies and executives with technological issues through traditional means, data intelligence and new technology platforms.

  • Co-Founder

    2018

    We’re on a mission to help Product Marketers develop skills across messaging, positioning, go-to-market strategy, pricing & packaging, storytelling, market analysis, impact & influence, and more. We have built a 400+ person community where we can learn from the best, develop relationships with peers, and share best practices. https://www.productmarketingmasters.com/

  • Growth and Product Marketing Lead

    2017 - 2018

ConsenSys builds Ethereum blockchain infrastructure and applications ranging from developer tools to enterprise solutions.

Raised $725,000,000.00 from Raison Wealth and Axevil Capital.

  • Enterprise Product Marketing Lead

    2017 - 2017

Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams.

Raised $1,391,100,000.00 from Light Street Capital, Meyer Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.

  • Director Product Marketing

    2016 - 2017

  • Sr. Marketing Manager

    2014 - 2016

    - Scaled executive briefing program to 85+ briefings with Global 2000 companies - Drove 35% of pipeline and revenue to sales team - Expanded webinar channel to 8 webinars per week - Guided product messaging and generated extensive sales enablement content

  • Product Marketing Manager

    2012 - 2014

    - Helped drive 60,000 product downloads and app creations - Engaged in extensive market analysis to determine product fit and target audience - Built lead generation machine centering around webinars driving $500k repeatable weekly webinars - Scaled our Executive Briefing Center program to add $800K quarterly pipeline

The Enterprise Approvals Platform.

Raised $73,500,000.00 from Harmony Partners, Green Bay Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Vintage Investment Partners, Tenaya Capital, Harmony Partners, Allen & Company, Andreessen Horowitz and CRV.

  • Product Manager - Associates Channel

    2010 - 2012

    - As part of the RAD (Retention, Acquisition, Data) team I increased the designer/affiliate contributor base by 20% through growth hacking techniques - Drove $5M in revenue by building and managing Daily Deal Promotions channel - Initiated and developed a customer facing Refer-A-Friend acquisition program driving 20K shares in the first 2 months - Developed new marketing tools for users after extensive market and consumer research

  • Conference Speaker

    2012 - 2012

    Invited speaker presenting on Affiliate Marketing: Best Practices for the Advanced Marketer

  • Consultant

    2008 - 2009

    Selected to a small team of consultants catering to nonprofit organizations Executed market research and analysis in professional home cleaning sector Aided Eco-Care in expanding their market and differentiating their product

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