Jennifer Vancini
General Partner at Mighty Capital
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