Sean Sheppard

Managing Partner at FifthRow

San Francisco, California

Overview

Sean Sheppard is a Managing Partner at U+ with a track record of delivering over $2 billion in value. He is a serial entrepreneur and corporate innovation expert known for helping executives develop and launch new ventures quickly, with expertise in strategic partnerships and business launch strategies. Highlights of Sean's career include managing partner roles at FifthRow and U.plus, where he has demonstrated a strong ability to drive innovation and create value for companies.

Work Experience

FifthRow

Managing Partner
2023 - Current
The leader in AI Powered Venture Building

U.plus

Managing Partner
2020
U+ is Digital Innovation with Startup DNA. To date, we have brought 80+ successful businesses to market, creating over $1 billion in new value. Leading companies know that digital innovations protect and grow market share. However, many businesses attempt to innovate without the right mindset, skill set, and execution. Due to this innovation gap, 95% of innovations fail. To bridge the innovation gap, we apply the U+ Method to ensure our customers have the tools they need to ensure their innovations succeed. Those tools are: 🟦A growth mindset 🟦A comprehensive skill set for each stage of idea development 🟦A framework that focuses on experience- and data-driven execution U+ has built close to 90 businesses and created over $1b in market value. Our approach enables us to determine whether and where a product fits in the market, create a learning organization to continue iterations, and, ultimately, drive profitability. WHAT WE OFFER ✅Product development ✅Product marketing ✅Product design ✅M&A ✅Startup acceleration CASE STUDIES 👉🏼We design and implemented a customer insights UX system for Swiss RE CorSor - the second largest reinsurer in the world. 👉🏼Developed an online used car sales platform for Carvago - This platform ingests data from all European car servers in order to create a pricing map and evaluate interesting cars to offer. 👉🏼Streamlined and scale the product development and delivery for Resolv and Bridegstone - Resolv members enjoy reduced prices for vehicle maintenance and a digital platform that delivers a higher convenience car care experience. For more case studies, drop us a mail: hello@u.plus WHO WE SERVE We are committed to working with countries, companies, entrepreneurs on building and launching ventures for the advancement of the innovation economy. We would like to collaborate. Just drop us a mail: hello@u.plus