Justin Berka
Early-stage Investor | Data Leader
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
SVP Technology
2023 - 2024
VP of Data
2021 - 2023
Nearside provides financial and software services for SMBs.
Raised $73,000,000.00 from Kevin Hartz, Ryan Petersen, Valar Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Michael Ovitz, Jim Breyer and Foundation Capital.
Director Of Analytics
2020 - 2021
Head of Go-To-Market Analytics & Data Science
2017 - 2020
Led the go-to-market analytics & data science team to provide global partnership and insights to business (Marketing, Sales, Finance, Business Operations) and product (Growth R&D) functions. Senior data science leader for Intercom’s self-serve business. Team projects included business KPI definitions, A/B testing and experimentation, LTV modeling, expansion prediction, marketing attribution models, and many more.
Intercom is a software company that creates modern customer service software that redefines how businesses support their customers.
Raised $240,750,000.00 from ICONIQ Growth, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures and Vulcan Capital.
Data Scientist
2014 - 2017
First analytics & data science hire; responsible for analytics, data engineering, and data vision/roadmap supporting Marketing, E-commerce, and Engineering teams for Drive/Overdrive + Cozmo. Projects included core metrics, executive/board KPI support, LTV and add-on modeling, feature analytics, e-commerce reporting, ETL pipelines.
Anki is an entertainment robotics company dedicated to bringing artificial intelligence and robotics to people's everyday lives.
Raised $234,500,011.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.
VP, Analytics
2013 - 2014
Founded analytics & data engineering function following Series B round and set strategic goals/roadmap. Provided data insights for R&D, Sales, and Marketing. Developed Fuze's internal analytics platform (querying, ETL, data warehouse, sales enablement and videoconference quality tools).
Fuze is a global cloud communications and collaboration software platform for the enterprise.
Analytics Engineer
2012 - 2013
Grew and led first centralized analytics & data engineering team, provided data and experimentation enablement for R&D and city operations teams (across 25+ cities), and created multiple internal data tools (Querybuilder for data access, Vertica warehouse, A/B testing framework, ETL system).
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.
Senior Data Engineer
2012 - 2012
First version of Yammer's customer-facing analytics feature (data objects, backend API code, and frontend visualizations), and internal data tools (KPI dashboards, sales-enablement tool, query tool).
Quantitative Product Analyst
2011 - 2012
Insights/quantitative analysis/data-driven recommendations for Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Support teams, and data pipelines to unlock new analyses and data.
Yammer is an enterprise social network that enables employees to collaborate across departments, geographies and business applications.
Raised $142,000,000.00 from Max Levchin, Emergence, Social Capital, Khosla Ventures, DFJ Growth, U.S. Venture Partners, Capricorn Investment Group, Tuesday Capital, Ronnie Lott and Capricorn Partners.
Associate Analyst/Analyst, Antitrust and Intellectual Property
2009 - 2011
- Economic analysis (modeling/regressions/market share computations) for antitrust cases, merger transaction reviews, and patent infringement matters. - Selected projects: Oracle America v. Google (patent), Edwards Lifesciences v. CoreValve (patent), Apple v. Motorola (patent), Coty/OPI (antitrust), Serta/Simmons (antitrust).
Associate Analyst, Transfer Pricing
2008 - 2009
Transfer pricing work (transaction frameworks using arm's length standards, comparables analysis)
NERA Economic Consulting is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles.