JV

Jennifer Vancini

General Partner at Mighty Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2017 - Current

    Mighty Capital is an early-growth Silicon Valley VC firm. We deliver exceptional returns by investing in great products that are also great businesses, like Amplitude, Canela Media, Accern and ON Platform. What makes us unique is our global platform of >500k product managers that we leverage to help our portfolio companies sell faster, hire top talent, and generate liquidity. Amplitude calls us the “best value for the dollar invested."

  • Owner, Managing Partner

    2015

    Family office investing in alternative assets for long-term, legacy wealth.

  • Sr. Director of Business Development, Global Partnerships

    2012 - 2015

    Telefónica is one of the world’s largest telecom companies with over 300 million subscribers in 20 countries in Europe and Latin America (operating under the brands O2, Movistar and VIVO). Telefonica Digital, headquartered in London, was charged with facilitating digital transformation across the organization. I negotiated, structured, drafted and closed agreements with strategic partners for deployment within the global footprint. Collaborated with corporate development as a bridge to commercial opportunities. Senior leader of the Silicon Valley office at the time I left to build a family investment office.

  • Sr. Director of Business Development

    2011 - 2012

    Formerly Vasco Data Security. Reporting to CEO, developed strategy for and managed SaaS partner ecosystem for cloud-based solutions in a company that needed to evolve from a traditional enterprise software company. Partners included Salesforce, Google Apps, Microsoft, SSO solutions and a range of web application providers.

  • General Manager and Head of US Operations

    2009 - 2011

    Built up my muscle in open source and operations. Brought in to continue laying operational groundwork for US office to enhance employee productivity, including facilities, finance, HR and IT. Driving process to obtain US 501(c)(6) non-profit status, collaborating with HR to localize policies and procedures and recruit staff, overseeing financial operations.

  • Head of Business Development

    2009 - 2009

    Post-acquisition of Symbian, continued in prior role while co-managing cross-functional, cross-company bus dev team of 40 that transitioned partners and other stakeholders to embrace the Symbian Foundation. Key member of the acquisition transition team.

  • Sr. Director, Business Development

    2004 - 2009

    Held positions of increasing responsibility including Sr. Director of Business Development for Network Operators in North America, Sr. Sr. Director of Market Development for the US ecosystem, and Sr. Director of Bus Dev for Operators. In most recent role, managed team responsible for operator engagements in US, Europe and China.

  • Managing Director, EMEA

    2001 - 2002

    Managed Certicom's EMEA office for sales, business development and marketing after 6 years with the company in the US and Canada. Expanded security offerings for telcos.

  • Sr. Director of Business Development

    1994 - 2001

    Held successive roles in security technology player as it grew from early-stage startup to IPO, including marketing, product management, investor relations, strategic business development, BU general management. Certicom built and standardized some of the fundamental building blocks of today's security industry. I launched the world's first mobile VPN product in partnership with Microsoft, Checkpoint, Cisco, Palm, HP, Nortel and several others. Drove ecosystem project (Visa, MasterCard, US Treasury, Zion's Bank, Schlumberger) that brought together elliptic curve crypto, smartcards, e-commerce as a necessary step for technology standardization. Oversaw acquisition of smaller players to accelerate growth. Helped take the company public in Canada, expand to US with opening of Silicon Valley office, and expand to Europe.

  • Management Consultant

    1989 - 1991

    Based in Toronto

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