Elana Berkowitz
Founder of Springbank Collective
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and Partner
2020 - Current
Springbank Collective is an early-stage investment firm building the infrastructure to support women and working families. www.springbank.vc
External Advisor, Stanford Startup Garage
2023
Mentor, Future of Longevity Accelerator
2021
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Founder, EB Collective
2013
Strategy, investments, BD, international market insights. Currently working with Eric Schmidt's family office. I work with startups from stealth mode to Series C as well as innovative philanthropies looking to do things differently on the challenges that matter most. Clients include Eric Schmidt's family offices, Google, National Geographic, General Assembly, Code for America, Rockefeller Foundation, Clinton Foundation, Knight Foundation, OnDeck Capital, Bloomberg LP, Kickstarter and more.
Advisor
2016
Proud advisor to one of the smartest mobile data companies out there, using that information to unlock credit, identity and economic opportunity in emerging markets.
Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets.
Raised $372,000,000.00 from Victory Park Capital.
Investor/Advisor
2017 - 2023
Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative, founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, that seeks to improve societal outcomes.
Innovator-in-Residence
2017 - 2021
CARE is one of the world's largest humanitarian organizations focused on transforming the lives of women and girls, including programming that has reached more than 1 million Syrian refugees in the MENA region. As their first part-time IIR, I'll be supporting and connecting their amazing program teams around the world to private sector tech and media partners, new capital sources, context appropriate technology solutions etc. Let me know if you want to join in!
CARE is a leading international humanitarian organization.
Co-Founder
2016 - 2021
Launched first of its kind chatbot that is the simplest, fastest way to register you and your friends to vote. Text HELLO to 384-387 to try it out. Developed in partnership with Twilio. You can easily use our iframe widget, get a custom page or whitelabel us. Thanks to partners including Genius, WordPress, Latino Victory Project, Refinery29, Headcount, West Elm and many more.
Advisor, Community Impact Development Group (incubator for tech led social enterprises)
2012 - 2014
Green Skills Innovation Challenge looks for social entrepreneurs who are equipping those most in need of opportunity with green skills.