Roman Scharf

General Partner

2017 - Current

Advisory Board Member

2019

Chairman

2019 - 2024

Co-Founder & CEO

2010 - 2018

Talenthouse is a global online collaboration platform and creative community of artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers and photographers spanning 175 countries. We host and manage creative briefs for brands and celebrated icons. In response to these briefs, our community delivers on-brand content reliably and at scale to power creative innovation and meet the evolving needs that brands have to power their paid, owned and earned media channels. TALENTHOUSE — Connecting brands, creators and influencers

Co-Founder, President

2005 - 2009

With the vision of changing the world of voice communication, I co-founded Jajah 2005 in out of a basement in Austria, Europe. A few months later, after an extensive viral ramp-up period, I found myself in Silicon Valley backed by some of the most prestigious funds like Sequoia Capital (the early backers of Google, Yahoo, Cisco, Youtube, and many more) and strategic investors like Intel, Deutsche Telekom or Telus. Within 4 years we grew Jajah's user base from zero to more than 25 million with offices in Mountain View, California, Luxembourg, Europe, Israel, Middle East and Philippines, Asia. Additional partnerships with Yahoo, Microsoft, eHarmony, and other Internet players drove our expansion even further. In 2009 Jajah has been acquired by Telefonica for $207 million.

General Manager

2005 - 2009

CMO

1998 - 2000