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Entrepreneurs: Be A Cat
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Tom Patterson
Senior VP of Corp Dev and Strategy
San Francisco, California
Overview
Tom Patterson is a highly accomplished Senior VP of Corporate Development and Strategy at BetterUp in San Francisco, with a strong background in start-ups, venture capital, and product management. His career highlights include founding Leap Life and serving as CEO, as well as providing strategic advice to companies like Brightside and Dale Carnegie.
Tom's current role at BetterUp involves leading corporate development and strategy efforts, showcasing his expertise in team leadership, market research, and business development within the enterprise software and e-commerce sectors.
Work Experience
Senior Vice President Of Corporate Development and strategy
2022 - Current
Head of Growth and Strategy
2020 - 2022
Lead Corp Dev, Incubating New Biz, Strategic Initiatives
Strategic Advisor
2016 - 2020
Strategic Advisor to leading human transformation and virtual coaching company. Betterup has raised over 550 million in funding from lightspeed, iconiq, salesforce, sapphire, threshold, wellington and serves many of the most iconic companies in the world.
BetterUp develops an AI-driven platform that helps people and businesses grow personally and professionally through coaching.
Raised $570,014,699.00 from Mubadala Capital Ventures, Morningside Venture Investments, Sapphire Ventures, Wellington Management, SV Angel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Plus Capital and ICONIQ Growth.
Strategic Advisor
2020
Brightside is the pioneer in outcome driven financial care. Backed by A16z and Trinity Ventures.
Brightside is an employer-based financial health solution that combines personal assistants and an innovative partner platform.
Raised $72,225,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Chestnut Street Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Green D Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Trinity Ventures.
Board Member
2014
Dale Carnegie is a world leader in public speaking and leadership training in leading enterprises as well as consumers. Tom is providing strategic coaching on digital innovation (Product, Sales, Strategy and Marketing) Member of the Governance, Compensation and Search Committee. Audit Committee Chairman.
Advisor
2015
Advisor/Investor to Survata, on demand market research to any target group for the worlds' biggest brands.
Upwave is an analytics platform for brand advertising.
Raised $28,717,000.00 from PivotNorth Capital, Initialized Capital, Ridge Ventures, Industry Ventures, VITALIZE Venture Capital, Conductive Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and Uncork Capital.
Mentor and Coach
2014
Coach and Mentor Enterprise Founders on Go To Market, Product Market Fit, Growth, Fundraising and Leadership. Alchemist is the leading enterprise business to business accelerator.
AWS Healthcare is a global healthcare accelerator.
Advisor
2011
Advisor/Investor IDG Ventures which is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in New Media, E-Commerce and IT companies in the US.
Strategic Advisor
2020
Even Financial is the leading digital API acquisition platform for the Financial Industry backed by Goldman Sachs, American Express, Canaan Partners and North Point Ventures. Even Financial acquired Leaplife in April of 2020. Currently advising the executive team on integration, insurance, growth, product.
Engine by MoneyLion is a provider of embedded finance and marketplace platforms for financial services.
Raised $67,000,000.00 from American Express Ventures.
CEO and Founder
2016 - 2020
Leap Life is an emerging life insurance platform delivering the first multiproduct end to end digital experience. Leaplife is backed by RGA, NFX and Ridge Ventures. Leaplife was acquired by Even Financial in April of 2020
Advisor
2011 - 2019
Advisor to the one of the fastest growing and most successful games companies. Kixeye produces award winning games such as Desktop Defender, Backyard Monsters, Battle Pirates, and War Commander . Kixeye is backed by Trinity Ventures, LightSpeed Ventures, and Jafco.
Advisor
2013 - 2019
Fixya is the largest and fastest growing tech support service on the Internet. Fixya creates and fosters some of the most engaging and active communities on the Web that discuss, fix and recommend popular consumer products all the way to harder to find durables. Fixya is backed by the Mayfield Fund.
Fixya is a community-based trouble-shooting resource that allows individuals to ask and answer questions about tech consumer products.
Raised $8,000,000.00 from Pitango VC and Mayfield Fund.
Education
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