Jess Ou
Scout at New Enterprise Associates
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Business Operations & Finance
2024 - Current
LangChain enables developers to accelerate their LLM application workflows by overseeing the entire project lifecycle.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Sequoia Capital.
Co-Founder
2024
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Scout
2024
New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in technology and healthcare startups.
Principal
2018 - 2024
Early stage venture capital firm. Focused primarily on investing in AI, B2B SaaS, and co-led our consumer gaming practice. Partnered with: - Rewind (AI-enabled universal search) - Tulip (no-code apps for your shop floor) - Embrace (mobile data platform) - Outrider (autonomous yard trucking) - Workera (upskilling and assessments platform) - Smartcar (API for auto data) - Arris (next-gen fiber composites) - Goodleap (sustainable home improvement loans) - Slash (banking for high-spend businesses) - Drop (consumer rewards) - Evernow (menopause treatment) - Gen.G (esports team) - Theorycraft (game studio) - Regression Games (games QA by bots)
New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in technology and healthcare startups.
Technology Investment Banking
2016 - 2018
Advised leading private and public technology companies on IPOs, equity and debt financings, and strategic alternatives. Transaction experience includes lead IPO roles of Pivotal Software, Smartsheet, Aquantia, Tintri; sale of AppDynamics to Cisco; private placement agent for Lulus Fashion $120M financing round; lead role for Uber debt offerings.
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.
Enterprise Technology Research Assistant
2015 - 2016
National Bureau of Economic Research - Adoption of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Workplace Today: http://www.nber.org/papers/w22346.pdf
Crowdfunding Research Assistant to Professor Christian Catalini
2014 - 2014
Operations
2014 - 2014
Marketing and community ops for largest market (SF Bay Area) at that time
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Product & Partner Marketing
2014 - 2014
In-store retail analytics startup backed by NEA/Benchmark/Harrison Metal/Cox Enterprises
Founder
2013 - 2013
Founded and coded a web platform for students, particularly first year and transfer students, to ask questions to student advisors at Berkeley. Featured extensive databases of information and resources for students. Led and built out a team of 20+ students to contribute content and answer 550+ questions from incoming students.