Jazmin Medina
Partner, Venture & Growth Practice at The D. E. Shaw Group
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Partner, Venture & Growth Practice
2024 - Current
Co-heading D.E. Shaw Group’s venture and growth equity investing practice, which is dedicated to supporting exceptional founders and category-leading companies from Series A to Pre-IPO stages.
D. E. Shaw & Co. is a global investment and technology development firm.
Investor
2021 - 2024
Modern Treasury offers a payment operations platform to simplify and modernize business payments.
Raised $183,000,000.00 from NewView Capital, SVB Capital, Artisanal Ventures, Four Cities Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, TQ Ventures, Mischief, Altimeter Capital and Quiet Capital.
Board Observer
2021 - 2024
Paystand is a cloud-based billing and payment platform for B2B companies.
Raised $98,000,000.00 from Open Opportunity Fund, Transform Capital, NewView Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Industrious Ventures and King River Capital.
Investor
2020 - 2024
Course Hero is a digital learning platform helping students and educators master their classes.
Investor
2019 - 2024
Acquired by Savvy Games for $4.9B
Scopely is an entertainment and video game company that creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games.
Raised $998,500,000.00 from Empede Capital, Maximize Capital, Veligera Capital, Nelstone Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.
Investor
2019 - 2024
NYSE: HIMS
Hims is a wellness brand that helps men and women get access to products for skin care, hair loss, and sexual health.
Raised $233,200,000.00 from Franklin Templeton.
Principal
2018 - 2024
NewView Capital (NVC) provides entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and investors with the freedom to drive continual innovation and sustainable growth. With over $2 billion in capital under management, the firm offers flexible-sized direct investments and innovative VC portfolio acquisitions, pairing funding with significant operational support. NVC’s direct investments focus on growth-stage technology companies, with a thematic approach to investing earlier. The NVC portfolio includes Plaid, Duolingo, Forter, Hims & Hers, MessageBird, Scopely, and Segment. www.nvc.vc
NewView Capital has developed a new model in venture capital to drive sustainable growth for entrepreneurs.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
OCR API Platform for Real-Time Data Extraction - https://veryfi.com/api
Raised $12,700,000.00 from Act One Ventures, TI Platform Management and NewView Capital.
Board Member
2020 - 2023
Hearsay offers a digital client engagement platform for the financial services industry.
Raised $51,000,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures.