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Jana Messerschmidt
Founding Partner at #ANGELS
San Francisco, California
Overview
Jana Messerschmidt is a Go-To-Market Executive and Investor known for her roles at Netflix and Twitter, as well as being a Founding Partner at #ANGELS. She has invested in notable companies like Roam, Magic, mmhmm, and Snackpass, focusing on sectors such as Real Estate/PropTech, Social Networks, and FinTech.
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2015 - Current
#ANGELS is a team of experienced exec operators collaborating to invest in visionary founders pursuing bold and transformative ideas. We have experience scaling the most impactful technology companies of the past decade, including Twitter, Google, Netflix & Slack. We typically invest at pre-seed through Series A stages. My investments include Carta, Vanta, Anchorage, Pacaso, Forward, Daydream, Cameo, Streamlit, Color, Persona, mmhmm, Shef, Opensea, Clubhouse, Bird, Convex, Materialize, Culdesac, Ashby, Nurx, Lovevery, Level, Carrot, Material Security, Snackpass, Threads, Digits, Mutiny, Fireflies.ai, Winnie, Otter, Aleo, and Roam, among others.
Partner, Enterprise & Consumer (Early Stage)
2018 - 2021
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global multistage venture capital firm with a 20 year history backing incredible founders. During my tenure at Lightspeed, I led 8 investments at Seed and Series A, across enterprise and consumer.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Vice President, Global Business Development & Platform
2010 - 2016
I built and led the organization responsible for Twitter's global strategic partnerships across both consumer and enterprise. I joined Twitter in the first few hundred employees and led critical initiatives that accelerated our growth to a 5000+ employee public company. My organization drove distribution and growth partnerships for many of Twitter's core consumer products. We also built the enterprise Data Licensing and API business from the ground up to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. I recruited a global organization full of talented leaders including VPs, GMs and Directors whose teams were responsible for all aspects of Business Development & Partner Management, Enterprise Sales and Account Management, Marketing, Product Management, Developer Relations, Partner Engineering, Data Science, Corp Strategy and more.
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Director, Business Development
2009 - 2010
I joined Netflix to build out the early streaming partnerships and products. We partnered deeply with chip, OEM / ODM, OS, cable / telco, gaming and retail / ecomm companies to launch Netflix streaming for tens of millions of consumers within two years.
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
Raised $4,907,714,724.00 from Saul Bisht and TCV.
Director, Strategic Accounts
2008 - 2009
SmartDrive provides fuel management and driver safety solutions for customers in range of industries from waste management.
Raised $270,200,887.00 from NewView Capital, Founders Fund, Sixth Street, Michelin and Oak Investment Partners.
Senior Manager, Global Accounts
2005 - 2008
DivX creates, distributes and licenses digital video technologies that enable consumers to enjoy video experiences on any device.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Insight Partners.