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
Drip provides the thrill of live commerce to NFTs, and physical collectibles.
Raised $28,500,000.00 from Brian Long, Alumni Ventures, Harlem Capital, Base10 Partners, Nick Tomaino, Toy Ventures, Andrew Jones, Eniac Ventures, Chris Bennett and Kindred Ventures.
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)
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Fellow
2020 - 2022
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
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
Eniac Ventures leads seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2020 - 2020
Prehype is a venture development firm, co creating startups with the world's finest corporations and entrepreneurs.
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
Bleximo is building co-designed full-stack superconducting application-specific quantum computers to deliver first quantum advantage
Raised $9,000,000.00 from Gyan Kapur, Creative Ventures, Boost VC, Scout Ventures, Eniac Ventures and KEC Ventures.
Board Observer, Seed Investor
2017 - 2019
Fuzzy is a subscription-based pet healthcare startup making pet care accessible and affordable.
Raised $80,500,000.00 from Crosscut Ventures, Matrix, Icon Ventures, FJ Labs, Jose Feliciano, Eastward Capital Partners, Mark Vadon and Greycroft.
Board Observer, Seed investor
2017 - 2019
FortressIQ defines security, insights, and governance in enterprise business automation and AI.
Raised $46,000,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Eniac Ventures, boldstart ventures, Comcast Ventures and Tiger Global Management.