Jeffrey Silverman
Adjunct Professor at Tulane University
Jeffrey Silverman
Adjunct Professor at Tulane University
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2014 - Current
Transparency. Collaboration. Community. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we support founders with the only things that matter in the early days: sales acceleration, operational execution, and capital strategy. We lead investments in companies that make existing markets and workflows more efficient. We are a full-service venture firm, with a family of funds & a venture asset management company.
Adjunct Professor
2024
This hands-on learning experience is designed for those intrigued by the prospect of funding the next big idea. Conducted within the newly funded Tulane Venture Fund, this immersive course allows students to deeply explore the fundamentals of angel and venture capital investing in a real-world setting. The curriculum is highly applied, covering all aspects of VC investing: from opportunity sourcing, evaluation, and decision-making, to deal structuring, follow-on investing, and successful exits. Instructors are two industry veterans with diverse backgrounds and extensive experience, sharing insights from real-world cases, including behind-the-scenes details of deal processes rarely publicized. As part of this experiential learning experience, students will sharpen their investment acumen, gain insights into entrepreneurial finance, and prepare to navigate the complexities of a venture capital career with confidence.
Advisor
2015
AutoFi leverages technology to drive down costs and save time when applying for an auto loan. We bring a seamless, plug and play point of sale financing solution that facilitates the purchase of a vehicle online. AutoFi brings to market the first platform that gives institutional investors direct access to consumer auto loans. Investors bypass the traditional ABS markets and capture the spread typically absorbed by the high cost securitization structure.
Board of Directors
2020 - 2023
Eco-Mail is a digital post office platform that enables large enterprises, such as banks, to modernize internal mail distribution by transforming incoming physical mail into powerful digital assets. By doing so, our clients streamline internal operations; accelerate delivery and response times; improve process, audit, and compliance controls; and, by eliminating legacy infrastructure, cut the substantial overlooked costs of paper mail from every corner of their business. Eco-mail works for institutions of all sizes. It can be delivered as a SaaS solution or, for larger clients, as a private “behind the firewall” installation.
Senior Advisor
2018 - 2022
Union Crate helps consumer goods companies build and manage supply chains that can keep up with the consumer of today. Based in New York City, we are a team of CPG veterans, rebels, and nerds who believe that the future of supply chain will be driven by AI. It powers everything we do. We are obsessed with helping our clients take back the invaluable time, money, and resources that are far too commonly lost by relying on archaic supply chain management systems. That’s why we’ve built an intelligent platform designed specifically for the complexities of a consumer goods industry that’s needlessly stuck in the past.
Board Of Directors
2016 - 2021
Animal testing is yesterday's gold standard. AxoSim's Nerve-on-a-Chip® delivers human data, faster to save you hundreds of millions of dollars and years of wasted patent life, while allowing you to develop more effective drugs.
Advisory Board
2018 - 2021
rasa.io solves the "Association Engagement Gap" - Associations do a great job with big, infrequent activities like conferences, education and publications. However, associations need a way of getting their audience to engage every day. We solve that by combining cutting edge Artificial Intelligence with the internal data of the association and the best content from around the web to bring a personalized daily news feed to each member. www.rasa.io
Board Member
2013 - 2020
SyncOnSet is the leading entertainment technology company for digitizing physical production and managing creative content. SyncOnSet was born out of a simple idea: replace the three-ring production binder with professional software. Now embraced by thousands of TV series and films around the world, SyncOnSet has grown into a software suite that reimagines and streamlines the creative process
Senior Advisor
2011 - 2019
C3 Metrics’ Intellectual Property and platform solves difficult problems in a changing market. C3 Metrics’ IP is the first of its kind to detect viewable impressions thru cross-domain iframes. The significance of this patent-pending technology (US#40927-701.101) is that previously ‘viewable impressions’ were limited to only the 20% of ads served in JavaScript, while ads served by cross-domain iFrames (80%), were undetectable. With 80% of ads missed, buyers and sellers were left with uncertainty for key metrics of reach, frequency, and ROI. C3’s technology is akin to the Hubble telescope in online advertising: seeing what has never been seen before, with a never experienced 98%+ detection rate of viewable impressions. C3’s technology detects viewable impressions in all major browsers: Chrome, I.E., Firefox, Safari. No sampling, no exceptions, no guessing, no “projections”, no caveats, no asterisks: 98%+ detection. Because C3’s platform was architected for real-time bidding + two-way communication…DSP’s, publishers, and networks can shrink their “unseen” display mix with C3’s intelligent platform to eliminate waste, and stop buying unseen inventory for which they’ll never get credit or with 3MS, never get paid. For agencies and advertisers, C3 provides the paramount ingredient for online GRP’s to calculate truly accurate reach, frequency and Viewable Conversions™ . C3’s technology is certified by Google Display, Yahoo!, AOL, and runs on 27+ DSP’s and networks. Headquartered in New York with offices in California and Boston, C3 Metrics is comprised of leading experts in the field of digital and television measurement from DoubleClick, eBay, PepsiCo, Yahoo! and Nielsen.
Board Member
2017 - 2019
Spotfront is a technology company that helps retailers and brands work together more efficiently. Our Promote software platform gives retailers the ability to monetize their e-commerce site traffic and gives brands the tools to manage and promote their products on-site in real time. We've thoughtfully built our platform based on real customer input and market feedback - and take pride in the solutions we've created.
Education
BA
1985 - 1989