Javaughn Lawrence
Member at YPO
Javaughn Lawrence
Member at YPO
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder, CEO
2021 - Current
Drip is an social commerce marketplace and AI-enabled tooling for passionate communities starting with collectibles Growing fast and hiring in product, eng, partnerships/sales and operations Backed by Base10, Eniac Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Harlem Capital; Angels include founders of Axie Infinity, Atentive, Wonderschool and other companies
Member
2023
Scout Investor
2020 - 2022
Sector Agnostic pre-seed and seed investments: Aidaly - Compensation and financial services for family caregivers Seashell - Defi-tooling to maximize staking yields Marco - Cultural HQ for companies ArcType - super intuitive SQL IDE (acquired by clickhouse)
Fellow
2020 - 2022
EIR, Venture Capital Investor
2017 - 2021
Entrepreneur in Residence (Sept '19 to April 2021) Associate (June ‘18 to Sept '19) Senior Analyst (Sept ‘17 to May ‘18) Sourced: Level AI (generative AI-powered customer service), Bleximo (superconducting quantum computer) Other deal experience (non-exhaustive): Unsupervised (AI for unstructured data), FortressIQ (Robotic Process Automation), Fuzzy, ProdPerfect, Sea Machines (Autonomous ships), xWing (Autonomous planes), 1upHealth Portfolio companies include Vungle, Anchor, Airbnb, Boxed
Entrepreneur In Residence
2020 - 2020
Co-founder, CEO
2019 - 2020
Created voice clones using AI models. First use case focused on dubbing YouTube videos into other languages
Board Observer, Investor
2018 - 2019
Board Observer, Seed Investor
2017 - 2019
Board Observer, Seed investor
2017 - 2019