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Jennifer Kaehms

Technology Investor

Austin, Texas

Overview 

Jennifer Kaehms is a Technology Investor based in Austin, Texas, with a background in Bioengineering from UC San Diego. She has made significant investments in companies like Tennr (Series A) and Omneky (Seed) and has held roles such as Partner at Foundation Capital and Head of Revenue Operations at Forethought. Kaehms has a strong track record of successful investments in sectors like Hardware, Digital Health, Consumer Internet, AI, and SaaS, and has experience working with prominent organizations like NASA Ames Research Center and Canvas Ventures.

Work Experience 

  • Angel Investor

    2023 - Current

Tennr is a healthcare AI startup that provides an automation platform for medical documents.

Raised $60,000,000.00 from Foundation Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    On-demand & reserved cloud NVIDIA GPUs for AI training & inference Lambda Selected As 2024 NVIDIA Partner Network AI Excellence Partner Of The Year Raised $320 Million Series C

  • Angel Investor

    2021

Omneky generates personalized ads at scale.

Raised $13,000,000.00 from Orbit Venture Partners, Lennox Capital Partners, DG Daiwa Ventures, Cadron Capital Partners, John Donovan, Nomura, Charlie Feng, FAST — by GETTYLAB, Darius Contractor and Gene Farrell.

  • Partner

    2021 - 2023

    Early-stage venture capital firm with $4B+ of cumulative capital commitments and 28 years of history backing technology leaders like Netflix, LendingClub, MobileIron and Chegg. I invest across the enterprise stack. While at the firm I sourced: - Two seed investments: Sift AI and Tennr - A Texas-based LP

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.

  • Head of Revenue Operations

    2020 - 2020

  • Operations

    2018 - 2020

Forethought is a generative AI suite for customer support automation.

Raised $92,000,000.00 from Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Boehmig, Cleo Capital, Steadfast Financial, K9 Ventures, Frontline Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Collaborative Fund, Christopher Manning and Ashton Kutcher.

  • Investment Associate

    2017 - 2018

    Part of the investment team at Canvas Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm named a top “VC Firm to Watch” on the Forbes 2015 Midas List. Since launching in 2013, Canvas has invested in companies in digital health, fintech, e-commerce, and companies in ML/AI. Sourced Luminar. Worked with: Casetext, Healthloop, Crowdflower, Vida Health, Owl Cam

  • General Analyst

    2016 - 2017

    - Analyst (Sep 2016- July 2017) - Research Associate - (March 2016 - August 2016) - Research Assistant supported the investment process by finding and conducting due diligence on companies in hardware, healthcare, and AI

  • Research Assistant

    2016 - 2016

Canvas Ventures is an early-growth fund focusing on AI transforming digital health and fintech.

  • Resident Advisor

    2011 - 2014

    Head Resident Advisor ITTP Head Resident Advisor COSMOS Resident Advisor for the Eleanor Roosevelt College, ERC (Global Citizen College)

  • Computational Biology Intern

    2011 - 2011

    Worked with an international team to build computational heart models using matlab

  • Universities Space Research Association Intern

    2010 - 2010

    Monitored 3 pools of algae growth using pH indicators and comparative qualitative methods Wrote procedures for lab safety and setup utilized team-wide to help reduce bio-fouling risks Built a CO2 distribution system to feed to outdoor algae pools

  • INSPIRE Intern

    2009 - 2009

    Interned with a biofuels project to turn non-edible biomass into fuel Ran a HPLC machine to determine the effects of different enzyme assemblies on the digestion of cellulose biomass (corn) Transcribed lectures from Dr. Trent’s Wind Sea Algae Conference that were published bit.ly/AlgaeTrentReport

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