Jeffrey Beir
General Partner at Venture Lane
Jeffrey Beir
General Partner at Venture Lane
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner - Venture Lane Studio
2022 - Current
Joined the Venture Lane team as a General Partner after a year of working as a lead mentor. Focused on selecting the Studio cohort, program delivery and raising capital to invest in the cohort companies. My specific emphasis is on 'Product as an Enabler for Growth' and 'Fundraising Strategy'.
iLab Founding Mentor
2014
The Harvard iLab exists to support Harvard students and select alumni in their quest to explore the world of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Snowboard Instructor
2018
Fulfilling a dream to share my passion for snowboarding with children and adults. Nothing better than ending the day with a student's ear-to-ear smile. There's a blog post in the making about the similarities in teaching snowboarding and mentoring startups.
Mentor
2021
Quebic is a collaboration infrastructure solution for website publishers, cloud applications and marketplaces. Their ground-up, privacy-first, secure and compliant messaging, communications, and collaboration solution provides partner brandable collaboration through a horizontal SaaS platform. Customers maintain control over their brand, security, compliance, and data sovereignty as they interact with their customer communities.
Mentor
2020
Monitaur is committed to improving people's lives by providing confidence and trust in AI. Creating responsible AI is a business problem, not just a tech problem. Monitaur brings teams together to one platform to mitigate risk and turn intention into action.
Mentor
2020
Debate Spaces is an education non-profit that uses debate to foster civic engagement and connect middle and high school students from around the world.
Mentor, co-Founder
2019
Infinityy is a collaboration platform for all real estate decisions. Currently being piloted by world leading real estate companies such as Alliance Residential, CBRE, Avison Young, and Greystar, Infinityy is used for a range of use cases. I helped Jim Schoonmaker, CEO found and start the company in 2019.
Mentor, Investor
2016
Cobu brings community to multifamily housing through curated community event experiences and technology. I have been a mentor and advisor to the CEO, Ben Pleat since the company founding at the Harvard iLab in 2016
Mentor, Investor
2018
SoWork is a next generation collaboration application for distributed organizatons. Vish Punwani and Emma Giles, co-founders of Sophya are former Khan Academy and two of their most popular Teaching Fellows. Sage is based in Harvard’s new high-level incubator Launch Lab X, and are one of the key teams in Y Combinator’s Startup School. They are dedicated to making education a much more engaging, scalable, and accessible experience for every student.
Managing Partner
2019 - 2023
Mentor Foundry works with awesome founders to build promising companies. Mentor Foundry brings a breadth of experience - strategy, product, go-to-market, capital raising and mentorship - to help teams navigate the early days and focus on the right things. Mentor Foundry understands the dynamic aspects of startups - attracting the right team, developing milestones, remaining focused, pivoting to find the right initial market, continuous learning, and communicating your opportunity to investors and customers. We exclusively work with talented founders who have confidence, but know what they don't know. Unlike typical advisors and investors, we devote significant time to each of our companies and get deep in your product/market so we can provide meaningful guidance. We help build your financing strategy - how much/when/from whom - and will invest, but exclusively after we have built our confidence in the opportunity and alongside investors in an angel, seed or series A round.
Education
MBA
1983 - 1985
MS
1979 - 1983
BSEE
1975 - 1979
BS
1975 - 1979
Bachelor of Science - BS
1975 - 1979