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Taryn Livingstone

Master Teacher at St. Paul's School

Boston, Massachusetts

Overview 

Taryn Livingstone is an Early Stage Operator, Teacher, and Investor based in Boston, Massachusetts. With a background in finance and mechanical engineering from Northeastern University, she has held roles such as Fellowship Director at Soma Capital and Director at Envision Accelerator, showcasing expertise in investing in pre-seed startups and leading accelerator programs. Taryn's career highlights include serving as a Master Teacher at St. Paul's School and directing a platform at Envision Accelerator, focusing on supply chain tech, hardware, and digital health sectors in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Master Teacher

    2024 - Current

    Teaching entrepreneurship to top-performing high school students at the Advanced Studies Program. Learn more at https://www.sps.edu/asp-summer

  • Collective Member

    2022

  • Fellowship Director & Preseed Investor

    2022 - 2024

    Empowering & funding early stage technology entrepreneurs.

Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.

  • Director

    2021 - 2023

  • Head of Platform

    2021 - 2022

    Supporting young, underrepresented founders.

  • Product Manager Intern

    2022 - 2022

    Building new consumer products.

Boston Venture Studio is a technology that provides marketing, PR, social media, information technology, and advertising services.

  • Manufacturing and Supply Chain Co-op

    2021 - 2021

    On a mission to unlock human performance. - Project-managed compliance certifications for consumer electronics, navigating complex design and schedule changes between external test labs and internal engineering teams. - Facilitated operations for engineering prototype and validation builds including assembling part kits, coordinating shipping logistics, and issuing purchase orders. - Managed open projects for packaging development by driving the action tracker, Gantt chart and schedule adjustments, and inter-team communication to arrive at mass production design. - Coordinated with contract manufacturer to repair and recover over $1M in manufacturing test failures. - Created internal SOPs for obtaining global market regulatory access and filing customs and international shipment paperwork. - On-boarded two new co-ops to assume my role.

WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.

Raised $404,751,000.00 from Thursday Ventures, Sahin Boydas, SoftBank Vision Fund, Accomplice, NextView Ventures, GP Bullhound, CAVU Consumer Partners, IVP and Animal Capital.

  • Engineering Product Management Intern

    2019 - 2019

    Assisted lead product manager in developing new ClearVote hardware, ran daily SCRUM meetings, created CAD drawings to communicate designs and managed Chinese suppliers. Began full-time internship after high school graduation.

  • Manufacturing Technician

    2019 - 2019

    Encoded, assembled, and tested ClearCast voting machines, worked on a team to troubleshoot mechanical setbacks and meet tight deadlines. Taught new recruits how to complete subassemblies and perform testing.

Clear Ballot revolutionizes the GovTech space with modern solutions for voting, absentee, and audit systems.

Raised $18,000,000.00 from Steve Papa, Gratitude Railroad, Peter Lynch, Bessemer Venture Partners, VentureForGood, Michael Porter and DN Capital.

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