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Jo Slota-Newson
Managing Partner at Almanac Ventures
JS
Jo Slota-Newson
Managing Partner at Almanac Ventures
Cambridge, England
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2024 - Current
Principal
2021 - 2023
Investor
2020 - 2021
Investment Manager
2018 - 2020
Early stage venture capital investor.
Senior Consultant
2014 - 2018
Innovation strategy consultant to SMEs in the advanced materials, energy, electronics and cleantech sectors.
Director, Investment and Operations
2016 - 2018
Equity investment for Biotech and Life Science businesses.
Chief Technology Officer
2014 - 2016
Combined role as Technical and Operational lead for a building integrated photovoltaics technology company based in the ideaSpace, Cambridge and Level39, Canary Wharf. Polysolar specialises in transparent photovoltaic architectural glazing, with customers including Sainsbury's, Canary Wharf Group and the NHS.
Research and Teaching Fellow, BioMedical Engineering program
2013 - 2014
Lecturer and course director for an undergraduate course in Biomedical Engineering (BioMEMS)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
2011 - 2014
PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant
2007 - 2011
Research Assistant
2006 - 2006
Quantum electrodynamics group Nuffield undergraduate research scholarship
Staff
2003 - 2003