Umaimah Mendhro
Founder of One League
Umaimah Mendhro
Founder of One League
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
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.
Halogen Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund investing in consumer technology companies led by women.
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.
VIDA is bridges the gap between artists and consumers while promoting socially responsible fashion.
Raised $1,420,000.00 from Revolution, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Brad Flora, Y Combinator, Indicator Ventures, Reshape, Halogen Ventures, Beehive Holdings, Jesse Draper and Universal Music Group.
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.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
MBA, Baker Scholar
2007 - 2009
Associate
2008 - 2008
Endeavor is a global nonprofit that transforms emerging countries by supporting High-Impact Entrepreneurs.
Endeavor supports high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor.
Raised $130,000,000.00 from Nour Nouf.
Associate
2008 - 2008
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Product Manager
2002 - 2006
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.