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Josh Resnick

Managing Partner at Pure Imagination Brands

Los Angeles, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder & General Partner

    2022 - Current

    OpenSky Ventures is an LA based early-stage VC with a mission to fund the most disruptive new startups in the future of commerce.

  • Advisor

    2023

    Cloud3PL is a first-of-its-kind software platform that optimizes logistics costs with powerful technology and unparalleled scale.

  • Advisor

    2023

    Tare is an AI-powered email marketing solution that makes data-driven automation easy for modern e-commerce brands on Shopify.

  • Advisor

    2023

    Developing a better way to change your hair color.

  • Advisor

    2023

    Levanta is a new Amazon Affiliate Platform that makes it easy to connect with revenue-generating creators, affiliates and influencers to promote your Amazon storefront.

  • Member, SVP Evaluation Committee

    2022

    The Alliance for Southern California Innovation (the “Alliance”) is a not for profit formed in 2017 that has successfully brought together the heft of Southern California’s top research institutions, local business leaders, and world-class advisors to focus on bridging critical gaps in the SoCal innovation ecosystem. The goal of the Alliance is to engage and unify SoCal’s compelling diversity of talent, ideas, and perspectives in order to optimize the conditions for the region’s innovators to bring breakthroughs to the world.

  • Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    2019

    A family office supporting early-stage disruptive brands & the entrepreneurs who power them.

  • Advisor

    2023

    Siena is the 1st autonomous customer service platform that is using generative AI to help companies automate conversations across all channels and languages in the brand’s own voice and personality.

  • Advisor

    2022

    Nomadica creates award-winning, sommelier-curated canned wines with flavor profiles that are serious enough for a glass.

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2012 - 2019

    Sugarfina is a luxury candy boutique featuring 100+ curated gourmet sweets from artisan candymakers around the world. Named "Best New Candy Shop" by Food & Wine, Sugarfina offers a unique range of candies that can't be found anywhere else in the United States. Loved by celebrities and tastemakers, Sugarfina candies are beautifully packaged and presented, perfect for gift giving or treating yourself.

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