Jose L Sampedro Mazon

Ideating & Up-Skilling Technically

2024 - Current

Founding Member

2024

Principal, Venture Investing (Corporate Venture Capital)

2022 - 2024

Jose focuses on ‘Partner-in-Residency’ programs with corporate venture capital funds of Fortune 1000 clients, leading primarily growth stage venture investments end-to-end from sourcing to due diligence, financial analysis, investment memo development, and obtaining investment committee approval. In 2023, he was responsible for leading two teams of analysts and associates across two client funds with over $100M in allocated capital, running 11 venture deals ranging from Series D to Series A in energy, decarbonisation, industrials and B2B SaaS. Jose has also led engagements to support leading enterprises in launching new CVC funds, developing the investment thesis and operational charter, and obtaining board / C-Level approval for the allocation of funds to invest in innovative ventures with promising financial returns alongside strategic fit with the corporate and its portfolio. Moreover, he has been highly active in know-how and training both internally and in the form of client workshops, teaching financial analysis and valuation, due diligence, investment terms and investment committee memo preparation. Jose has also led several internal strategic initiatives to revamp service offerings to increase their value both to clients and the firm, specifically on fund design and operations. M49’s venture investing practice clients include TDK Ventures, Goodyear Ventures, Xerox Ventures, Vale Ventures, Halliburton Labs, Hypertherm Ventures, Pernod Ricard, Southwire and many more Fortune 1000 enterprises.

Entrepreneur In Residence (Venture Building)

2021 - 2022

Building tech ventures for the Global 1000 corporates.

Co-Founder & CEO

2019 - 2021

inPact was a VC-backed, AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform designed to extract business data from complex commercial contracts for purposes of process automation and business intelligence. It was backed by Entrepreneur First, the world’s leading talent investor, funded by Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn), the founders of DeepMind and PayPal, amongst others. Prior to inPact, CEO & Co-Founder Jose Sampedro founded LexKnights Pte. Ltd., a bootstrapped, legaltech SaaS company offering automated contract assembly solutions across three main lines: - LexKnights: Platform enabling startups and SMEs to quickly generate and sign custom legal agreements (e.g. NDAs, contractor agreements, employment letters…) by answering plain English questions in a chatbot-style interface and triggering an integrated e-signature flow. - DealPro: A prosumer mobile-first app for real estate and insurance agents to quickly and easily generate, track, sign and manage deal documentation with their customers. - LeaseAgreement.sg: D2C SaaS offering for landlords and tenants to customize, generate and sign residential lease agreements based on a digital version of the official template from Singapore’s Council of Estate Agencies. LexKnights was selected to take part in the first cohort in the GLIDE Legaltech Accelerator Program by the Singapore Academy of Law, Singapore’s first LegalTech Accelerator. It was revenue-generating and showed promise in pilots, particularly with DealPro used at the leading Singapore real estate agency. Notwithstanding, a decision was made to pivot to a different model pursued under inPact Technologies in search for greater scalability, defensibility and willingness to pay.

Director, Cloud Insight

2018 - 2019

Consultative business development driving multi-functional sales and tech architecture teams to shape technology transformations for Oracle’s most strategic clients in financial services. The role involved working with the Oracle Cloud Startup Accelerator to help drive innovation partnerships and sales opportunities. Jose also led the relationship with R3 Corda in ASEAN, co-presenting at the Singapore Fintech Festival and exploring potential collaborations across the respective networks.

Project Leader (Engagement Manager)

2017 - 2017

Management consultant affiliated to the technology advantage and financial institutions practice areas. Jose has extensive experience in growth strategy, including new market entry, product development, strategic partnerships and alliances and establishing new business models; as well as helping organizations develop technology advantage, including developing digital products, tools and processes, and maximizing value from data analytics. Worked on projects across main APAC markets including Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Hong Kong.

Consultant

2015 - 2016

US Associate (PQE 4)

2010 - 2013

Extensive experience representing companies, investors and sponsors in a variety of cross-border fundraising transactions, involving structuring and negotiating terms of equity, debt and hybrid instruments and leading the management of the funding process with key stakeholders. This involved the drafting, review and negotiation of a wide range of corporate contracts including commercial deals, merger/JV agreements and financing/hedging contracts. Also advised investment funds and other financial institutions on complex financial regulation, including securities laws, regulatory compliance and transfer pricing structures.