Jawhara Tariq

Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Investments

2024 - Current

Seed Investor

2022

VP, Corporate Strategy

2023 - 2024

Director, Strategy & Chief of Staff

2022 - 2023

Investor

2020 - 2022

M13 is an early-stage venture fund focused on consumer technology. We invest in emerging technologies that will drive change across large consumer verticals such as health & wellness, communications, food, financial services, and housing.

Partner

2020 - 2022

The Fund LA is an early stage venture capital fund composed of local founders and operators, investing in southern California. We write early-stage checks into pre-seed companies. Always looking for great founders - jawhara@thefund.vc Lead on following investments: - Cheres - RealAppeal

Investment Associate

2019 - 2020

Moonshots Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in extraordinary leadership. Great leaders are hard to come by. We believe the best ones are military-trained or trial-by-fire entrepreneurs who have the ability to motivate others to action, inspire trust, and plan heuristically. We invest with conviction when those attributes are present. Moonshots Capital was founded by a team of veterans in 2017. We have collectively founded and operated 14 companies, and have personally invested in 70 ventures. Beyond capital, we deploy our military and entrepreneurial experience and network to help world-changing companies grow. Work with us. Go to http://www.moonshotscapital.com/. Sourced investments include: - Copper Labs - nok - Steereo

Content Creator

2019 - 2020

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Investment Associate

2017 - 2018

Secondary venture fund that invests in late-stage private companies through primary and secondary investments. - Analyzed and qualified potential investments - Evaluated financial and cap table models - Managed LP communications, fund updates, and investment memos

Analyst

2016 - 2017

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is focused on the development of data and insight to enable higher-performing philanthropic funders. Data Analysis - Exhibit high attention to detail through manual accumulation of survey respondent lists - Work with clients to draft and program client survey questions using Qualtrics software - Analyze large-scale quantitative and qualitative datasets using SPSS, SQL, Excel, and qualitative coding techniques - Synthesize data findings relating to donor, staff, or grantee perceptions of foundations into online customized reports - Use inferential statistics to provide clients with actionable feedback Client Engagement - Interface with clients to create customized surveys - Present findings to clients' staff and board members Advisory Services - Work in small teams on one-off specialized projects for clients, such as the Surdna Foundation's 100 year anniversary white paper - Perform literature reviews

Resource Development Fellowship

2015 - 2016

I worked under the Resource Development Division of NeighborWorks America is to create a standardized prospect research process, complete with metrics of evaluation and a detailed database of prospects. - Developed a set of metrics to codify prospect research to expedite funding from over 200 new potential funders - Mapped data on the organization's 250 network organizations - Managed communications to our network organizations to alert them to requests for proposals - Created a cross-divisional resource development strategy to inform prospective partner engagement