JO

Jess Ou

Scout at New Enterprise Associates

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Work Experience

L

LangChain

  • Business Operations & Finance

    2024 - Current

S

Sapienne

  • Co-Founder

    2024

    A community of top talent building in AI, connecting women across each business function for learning, sharing, and networking. Join us! https://www.sapienne.ai/

NE

New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

  • 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)

MS

Morgan Stanley

  • 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.

SU

Stanford University

  • 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

MS

MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Crowdfunding Research Assistant to Professor Christian Catalini

    2014 - 2014

U

Uber

  • Operations

    2014 - 2014

    Marketing and community ops for largest market (SF Bay Area) at that time

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Euclid (acquired by WeWork)

  • Product & Partner Marketing

    2014 - 2014

    In-store retail analytics startup backed by NEA/Benchmark/Harrison Metal/Cox Enterprises

CalAsk

  • 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.

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