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Kristina Serafim
Investor Investor
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Kristina Serafim is a Venture Capital Investor at Untethered Ventures in Palo Alto, California, with significant experience in investing in early-stage companies and advising on strategic growth. Notable career highlights include serving as a Managing Director at Verizon Ventures and holding board observer positions at various tech startups, demonstrating a strong track record in supporting and guiding emerging businesses to success.
Work Experience
General Partner
2023 - Current
Untethered is an early stage fund focused on pairing deep tech start-ups with their customer base, with focus on the Healthcare and Healthtech sectors.
Investor (Investment Committee Member)
2020
Advisor
2020
The Comedy Stream is the first platform to live stream stand up comedy.
Managing Director
2016 - 2023
• Investment lead for Verizon Ventures in the areas of AI and deep tech. • Led Seed to Series C stage venture investments, from creating an investment strategy, sourcing, evaluating deals, to securing championship by Verizon’s leadership, complete due diligence, deal negotiation, closing and portfolio management. • Managed a portfolio of 21 active investments, including board observer responsibilities and portfolio development, investment deal sheet available upon request.
Board Observer
2022 - 2023
Neural Magic provides AI inference solutions for deploying open-source LLMs.
Raised $50,000,000.00 from Comcast Ventures, Pillar VC, Andreessen Horowitz, Amdocs, Ridgeline and New Enterprise Associates.
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
Nstream is a technology company that offers a platform for building and running distributed and continuous intelligence applications.
Raised $25,399,121.00 from Juniper Networks, Arm Holdings, Silver Creek Ventures, Harris Barton and Cambridge Innovation Capital.
Board Observer
2020 - 2023
StatusPro is a sports technology company that combines data with virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products.
Raised $25,200,000.00 from Disney Accelerator.
Board Observer
2017 - 2023
Civis Analytics is a software company that helps public and private sector organizations make data-driven decisions.
Raised $52,700,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Eric Schmidt, Verizon Ventures, Drive Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.
Board Observer
2022 - 2023
Community is an app that solves communication and engagement problems.
Raised $65,220,000.00 from Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund, Verizon Ventures, 32 Ventures, WOCstar Fund, Pier 70 Ventures, GroveStreet, HubSpot, Salesforce Ventures, Backstage Capital and J.A.S Ventures.
Board Observer
2020 - 2023
Medivis is a medical technology company leveraging augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance surgical care.
Raised $25,000,000.00 from Initialized Capital, Thrive Capital, Robert Spetzler, Robert Iger, Hugo Barra, Coalition Operators, 35V, Kevin Durant and Mayo Clinic.