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Janis Skriveris

Principal at Plug and Play Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Janis Skriveris is an Early Stage Investor at Plug and Play Ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in investing in diverse sectors such as Manufacturing, IoT, Robotics, and SaaS at stages including Series A, Seed, and Pre-seed. With a background as a CEO and Co-Founder at Connoisseur Clothing and experience as a Consultant at EY, Skriveris brings a wealth of entrepreneurial and analytical skills to his role, contributing to successful investments in innovative startups.

Work Experience 

  • Principal

    2017 - Current

    Plug and Play Ventures is an early-stage investor with a portfolio which includes such companies as Dropbox, PayPal, Lending Club, Honey, N26, Einride and hundreds of others. • Conducting investment diligence on companies in Deeptech, Mobility, Construction, Proptech, Clean Energy and Enterprise domains. • Leading fundraising for Plug and Play industry specific funds. • Driving team strategy and leading a global team of investment professionals across Deeptech domains. • Advising corporate clients on their innovation strategy and roadmap. • Developing the strategy and features for Playbook, Plug and Play's Innovation Platform software.

Plug & Play Topeka is a Venture Capital company that offers corporate Innovation, open Innovation, and accelerator Programs.

  • CEO, Co-Founder

    2015 - 2020

    • Founded the enterprise, created the business idea, established contracts with cooperation partners and product distributers; • Designing the brand‘s products (stylized graphic T-shirts) – material, colors, clothing cut, prints; • Cost calculation, cost reduction as a result of finding other partners, cash flow planning, accounting, making financial reports and year-end financial statements; • Product launching promotional campaign creation and execution, planned marketing campaign.

  • Consultant

    2017 - 2017

    • Financial statement referencing, proofreading, recalculation, updating clients’ numeric corrections; • Requesting necessary documentation for audit processes, preparing response letters of inquiries; • Field work with EY clients, revising clients’ invoices, salary calculations, income documentation; • Administration tasks, checking completion of formalities, document archiving, financial report preparation.

Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.

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