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Jacob Cohen

General Partner at MAGIC Fund

Washington, District of Columbia

Overview 

Jacob Cohen is the founder of Apprenta, a public benefit corporation dedicated to breaking down barriers to family-sustaining careers and addressing critical workforce challenges. With a strong background in program development and management, he has led successful initiatives at organizations like Medumo and the NYC Department of Education, showcasing his expertise in strategic planning and public-private partnerships. Jacob's career highlights include co-founding Medumo, which was later acquired by Philips, and serving as a General Partner at MAGIC Fund, demonstrating his ability to drive innovation and create impactful solutions in the healthcare and education sectors.

Work Experience 

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MAGIC Fund

  • General Partner

    2021 - Current

    Magic is a global 30M pre-seed and seed fund focused on founders backing founders.

MAGIC Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund built by founders for founders.

magic.fund
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Philips

  • Business Leader, Patient Navigation

    2021 - 2022

    Responsible for leading Philips' Patient Navigation business (formerly Medumo) including a team of 60+ employees. Philips' patient navigation business has touched over 15m patients and is partnered with 10 the top 20 health systems in the US to deliver a best-in-class patient experience and improve operational efficiency.

  • Strategy and Innovation Lead

    2019 - 2021

Philips Healthcare provides healthcare solutions for diagnostic, treatment, and preventive care.

usa.philips.com
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Medumo

  • Co-Founder & COO (acquired by Philips)

    2016 - 2019

    Acquired 2019 by Philips Healthcare) Patient navigation is critical to successful healthcare outcomes, yet in most healthcare settings patient navigation consists of labor intensive phone calls or emails that are time consuming and ineffective. Medumo’s CareTours™ enable healthcare organizations to guide patients using automated just-in-time, turn-by-turn instructions and checklists. CareTours are “automated patient outreach protocols” that are customizable, mobile friendly, highly engaging and adaptive to patients’ needs without requiring staff time.

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Alvarez and Marsal

  • Summer Consulting Intern

    2015 - 2015

    Worked on K-12 education team to help public sector organizations solve financial management and oprational efficiency challenges.

Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Ventures is a consultant company with operational excellence is the heartbeat of growth for every company.

alvarezandmarsal.com
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NYC Department of Education

  • Education Pioneers Consultant

    2014 - 2014

    Led comprehensive investigation of operational challenges within Office of Student Enrollment and designed knowledge management platform to improve efficiency and performance of enrollment and admissions systems impacting 1.1 million students.

The New York City Department of Education is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system.

Raised $4,750,000.00 from NYSERDA, Accelerate and Salesforce Foundation.

schools.nyc.gov
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VAYLA New Orleans

  • Deputy Director

    2010 - 2014

    Served as Deputy Director of a community non-profit organization devoted to youth development and empowerment and founded The Raise Your Hand Campaign, a program through which hundreds of students and parents have brought about policy improvements in New Orleans public and charter schools.

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City of Boston

  • Participatory Budgeting Program Evaluation Consultant

    2014 - 2014

    Served as principal researcher hired to evaluate first year of Boston's innovative budgeting process that enables youth to determine how $1,000,000 in City’s capital budget is allocated

City of Boston is a government agency.

Raised $260,031.00 from Consumer Product Safety Commission.

boston.gov
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Challah for Hunger

  • Deputy Director

    2009 - 2010

    Developed the nation’s largest revenue-generating chapter of Challah for Hunger (CfH), a campus-based organization that raises money through selling bread to support various local and international humanitarian causes and helped to design national non-profit organization to support chapter incubation and scaling efforts at campuses across the country.

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