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Lessons Learned After 5 Years of Buying Common Stock in Startups
Talks about Venture Capital, Common Stock and VC
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Jamie Goldstein
Founding Partner
Greater Boston
Overview
Jamie Goldstein is a Founding Partner at Pillar VC, with a background in enterprise software, product management, and start-ups. Notable achievements include investments in companies like Adaptilens and Asimov, as well as serving on the board of Neural Magic.
Goldstein holds a BS from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has made strategic investments in various sectors including TransportationTech, BioTech, and FinTech, focusing on Seed and Pre-seed stages.
Work Experience
Founding Partner at Pillar VC
2016 - Current
Pillar VC invests in seed-stage companies, supporting unstoppable founders with capital, connections, coaching, and peer support.
Seed Investor and Board Member
2017
Algorand is a technology platform that builts blockchain infrastructure.
Raised $132,000,000.00 from North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures) and Meld ventures.
Seed Investor
2017
Jellyfish is an engineering management platform specializing in business alignment, DevOps, and data science services.
Raised $114,500,000.00 from Accel, Tiger Global Management, Insight Partners and Wing Venture Capital.
Seed Investor
2019
Abridge is a medical conversation AI startup that structures and summarizes medical conversations for doctors and patients.
Raised $207,500,000.00 from Union Square Ventures, Redpoint, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mass General Brigham, Wittington Ventures, Spark Capital, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kaiser Permanente Ventures and CVS Health Ventures.
Seed Investor
2016
PathAI develops technology that assists pathologists in making accurate diagnoses for every patient, every time.
Raised $355,200,000.00 from General Atlantic, LabCorp, General Catalyst, Adage Capital Management, Refactor, Kaiser Permanente, Bienville Capital, Biospring Partners, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck Global Health Innovation Fund.
Seed Investor
2017
Seed Investor
2015
Desktop Metal is a provider of metal and carbon fiber 3D printing accessible to all engineers, designers, and manufacturers.
Raised $816,760,835.00 from Baron Capital, XN, Chamath Palihapitiya, JB Straubel, Miller Value Partners and HPS Investment Partners.
Seed Investor and Board Member
2018
Neural Magic provides AI inference solutions for deploying open-source LLMs.
Raised $50,000,000.00 from Comcast Ventures, Pillar VC, Andreessen Horowitz, Amdocs, Ridgeline and New Enterprise Associates.
Seed Investor and Board Member
2019
Investor
2016
PillPack is a full-service pharmacy that sorts medication by dose and offers door-to-door delivery.
Raised $93,900,000.00 from EquityZen.