Umaimah Mendhro

Founder & President

2021 - Current

In collaboration with Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and global industry leaders, One League is empowering highly promising, underserved changemakers to realize global impact.

Venture Partner & Advisor

2019

Halogen Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on female founded consumer technologies. General Partner Jesse Draper has been listed by Marie Claire as one of the ‘Most networked women in America’. Draper is a 4th generation venture capitalist and has had invested in 47 deals including Sugarfina, Flex, Eloquii, Hopskipdrive, Carbon38, Peek, Laurel & Wolf, and VIDA.

Co-Founder

2007

thedreamfly.org is a global inititaive that connects communities in conflict around common causes through education, exposure, and empowerment.

Founder & President

2014

* Fast Company World Changing Ideas of 2021 * #1 Bestselling Mask of 2020 - NBC * Game-Changing KN95 Masks - Real Simple * #1 Best Mask for Concerts & Festivals - Billboard * The Most High-Impact Leaders Making a Difference in 2021 - CIO Views * VIDA is a global platform that brings together creatives and manufacturers from around the world to create unique, original accessories on-demand, at mass-scale. VIDA's products have been featured in: Today * NPR * Vogue * Esquire * Glamour * Bazaar * InStyle * PopSugar * Refinery29 * Who What Wear * Women's Wear Daily * Health * Prevention * The Oprah Magazine * HuffPost * Rolling Stone * C|NET * TechCrunch * WSJ * & More For every product made, VIDA enables education and empowerment programs for our factory workers and their families. VIDA has donated over half a million meals to families in need in the United States, over thirty thousands masks to communities in need around the world, and committed over half a million dollars to support global education opportunities. VIDA is a privately-owned Public Benefit Corporation, with former investors including Google Ventures, Y Combinator (S17), Halogen VC, Universal Music Group, and more.

Managing Director, Product Strategy and Early-Stage Ventures

2012 - 2014

West is a multi-disciplinary creative collective that helps the world's most disruptive companies grow. West is co-founded by Alison Johnson, former CMO of Apple. Companies West supported include Square, Twitter, Dropbox, Jawbone, Path, and Anki amongst others.

Director, Product Management, Startup Business Group

2009 - 2012

Microsoft Startup Business Group is an advanced strategy and research group with the charter to capitalize on Microsoft Research and invest in and build Microsoft's next billion dollar businesses.

MBA, Baker Scholar

2007 - 2009

Associate

2008 - 2008

Endeavor is a global nonprofit that transforms emerging countries by supporting High-Impact Entrepreneurs.

Associate

2008 - 2008

Product Manager

2002 - 2006