Oliver Sanchez
Venture Partner at Genesis Ventures
Oliver Sanchez
Venture Partner at Genesis Ventures
Greater Boston
Overview
Work Experience
CEO, Cofounder and Head of Product
2019 - Current
Extrasense is a technology company that seeks to reduce the impact Pests have on our lives. We are working on identifying pest species through machine vision and dramatically improving pest control decisions and predictions. We use Data instead of Poison. CoFounded company, and recruited an international team of engineers, entomologists, and designers. Oversee from early market hypothesis and lean experimentation to shipped product. - Managed all aspects of the product's lifecycle from ideation, and beta testing to successful launch. - Translated user requirements into functional specifications and created wireframes of approved features synthesizing user and technical input. - Driving a solution with multiple teams including development, design, advisory partners, and stakeholders. - Defined vision and prioritization of future roadmap while performing lean and agile methodologies.
Partner & Investor
2019
AccelHUB Venture Partners is investing in amazing LATAM technologies and providing guidance and leadership to launch them into the global market and reach a strong exit. We are the first network-driven venture firm that is focusing on bridging the gap between international startups and US based venture capital funding. The startups we choose will be in a position to enter the US market, will have an amazing technology and solution and will transfer their IP to a Delaware C corp.
Venture Partner
2020
Venture Partner We offer multi stage Venture Capital to the teams that we back, as well as mentoring and support to internationalize their businesses, leveraging our local teams
Managing Partner
2018 - 2021
AccelHUB partners with international municipalities, universities, and corporations to develop local co-working and acceleration programs that solve real problems and delivers global innovation partnerships with the U.S. AccelHUB specializes in secondary cities in LATAM and European markets but will drive success globally.
CEO / Co-Founder
2018 - 2019
We've developed an automated pest protection suite that conducts active drone surveillance and leverages our proprietary intelligent recognition algorithms to deliver unparalleled pest detection and control. We're now able to deploy timely and targeted countermeasures, thus minimizing crop loss. We're finalists at MassChallenge 2018! https://www.mathworks.com/videos/startup-companies-use-matlab-and-simulink-to-develop-pioneering-technologies-and-advance-their-business-1550098785112.html?
Mentor
2018 - 2019
Mentor to 2018 Cohort. Hack Diversity tackles the underrepresentation of high-skilled minority employees in Boston’s innovation economy. They recruit Black and Latino computer science and engineering students into the city’s fastest-growing companies — training, coaching and mentoring both employer and employee throughout the experience.
Chief Executive Officer
2016 - 2019
Founder of Plug Cambridge, a boutique coworking innovation space, providing office solutions and startup related services focused on immigrant and early stage founders in the Latino community. Selected achievements: - Grew community, developed a go to market strategy - Developed sales pipeline, community engagement tactics and coordinated a series of live events to drive awareness, interest, and retention. - Developed marketing and sales content to pitch corporate partners and sponsors - Managed operations through acquisition by Rent24 Skills: Communication · Project Management · Community Development · Attention to Detail · Easily Adaptable · Team Culture
Advisor / Partnerships
2017 - 2018
GoPetie is revolutionizing the pet licensing and animal control functions within cities and towns with a next generation software that utilizes the world's first mobile licensing platform, integrates remote pet photo recognition and a lost pet recovery service. Our mission is to increase the number of pets licensed while improving the engagement between municipalities and pet owners. Support corporate partnerships and fundraising efforts for a pet tech startup tackling the pet licensing issue. - Raised $400K Seed round
Founder
2017 - 2018
CKAPS is a cloud based real-time language translation technology used by organizations who need to reach multilingual clients to improve communication and reduce translation costs. Currently beginning seed round fundraising efforts. Recruited 3 person team including a technical cofounder, a UX/UI developer and Social Media Manager. Managing all aspects of the company from initial scoping and design through Alpha and Beta version. Responsible for fundraising efforts, including pitch deck, investor outreach and presentation. Tested app during East Boston Councilor Debate & with the Boston Housing Partnership
Advisor
2016 - 2018
Entrepreneur Advisor to consecutive winning teams. Helping them from ideation to business model design. 2016: WinWin - Eliminating idle time for manufacturing machinery 2017: TRAX - IOT device for the cement industry, improving production by 30%
Education
Master's degree ( on hold)
2020 - 2023
MBA
2006 - 2009
Bachelor of Arts
1998 - 2001
International Exchange Program - High School
1990 - 1991