Jess Lee
Founder of All Raise
Jess Lee
Founder of All Raise
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2016 - Current
Seed and early stage investor in Ironclad, Maven Clinic, Wonolo, Mos.com, Otter, Newness, The Wing, Pace Group.
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Co-founder and Janitor
2017
All Raise (allraise.org) is a non-profit dedicated to diversity in tech. Our goal is to improve the representation of women founders and funders. I co-captain one of our founder initiatives, Female Founder Office Hours (femalefounder.org).
All Raise is a nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous equitable future.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank, Sequoia Capital, Pivotal Ventures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Reid Hoffman Foundation, Silicon Valley Bank and Pivotal Ventures.
VP Product, Lifestyle
2015 - 2016
Polyvore was acquired by Yahoo in 2015 and our team became the Yahoo Lifestyle team. Our product portfolio included Polyvore, Product Ads, Yahoo View, and some cool secret projects.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Co-Founder & CEO
2008 - 2016
Polyvore is a shopping site & app where you can give & get styling ideas. Over the past few years I've done a little bit of everything, ranging from product management to writing code to finding our office space to ad sales to washing dishes. I started as a user who wrote in to complain about the product, then got hired as the first PM, then became VP Product, then CEO in 2012. I am delighted every day by the amazing people I work with and our incredibly talented user community. Much love.
Polyvore is a new way to discover and shop for the things you love.
Raised $22,100,000.00 from DAG Ventures, Matrix, Vivi Nevo and Goldman Sachs.
Product Manager
2006 - 2008
As the product manager for Google Maps, I worked closely with the engineering teams to design & launch new features. I also helped coordinate efforts between the different teams spread out across 13 different offices. I did a lot of UI design and product design. Some of the launches I worked on include My Maps, draggable driving direction, local reviews, user profile pages, embeddable maps, multipoint driving directions, real time traffic, photos of businesses, and geocoding in the Maps API.
Associate Product Manager
2004 - 2006
Google's APM program takes fresh out of school computer science grads and turns them into PMs.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Software Engineer Intern
2004 - 2004
Summer internship at the NTT Docomo Multimedia Research Lab. Developed an OpenGL graphics application.
Education
BS
2000 - 2004