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Selling Startups
Talks about Acquisitions, Travel Companies and selling a company
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Wen-wen Lam
Explorer
Miami Beach, Florida
Overview
Wen-Wen Lam is an accomplished entrepreneur and Partner at Gradient Ventures, with a background in product management, marketing, and business development. She has held leadership roles at companies like NexTravel and Women 2.0, and has invested in a variety of successful startups, including JARS AI and Butter.
Lam's career highlights include co-founding Women 2.0 and leading NexTravel as CEO, showcasing her expertise in entrepreneurship and business development. She has also made impactful investments in innovative startups like JARS AI and Butter, demonstrating her keen eye for promising ventures.
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - 2024
Gradient is a seed fund that invests in founders developing AI technologies.
CEO
2013 - 2021
With over 700 customers including companies like Stripe, Yelp, and Harry's and hundreds of millions of dollars in bookings, NexTravel is an enterprise travel company that helps companies book and manage travel. NexTravel was acquired by Travelperk in December 2020.
NexTravel is a business travel platform that empowers businesses to have true ownership over their end-to-end booking experience.
Raised $4,500,000.00 from Pipeline Angels.
CMO
2011 - 2012
CMO for venture funded peer to peer sharing e-commerce engine. Focus on bringing existing US based business models to international regions.
Marketing
2010 - 2011
Head of marketing at a top 10 facebook gaming company acquired by Myspace execs.
MindJolt is a gaming platform for developers and gamers.
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Austin Ventures.
Business Development
2008 - 2009
Senior BD exec/low-level intern at R&D incubator for Newscorp, Inc. Worked on projects with varied properties including Myspace and WSJ.
Co-founder
2006 - 2009
Marketing
2007 - 2007
Marketing lead at Spock. Spock - http://www.spock.com - is developing a search engine that helps users find and discover people. With over one hundred million people already indexed and millions added everyday, Spock is building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine.
Spock is a people and public information search engine.
Raised $7,000,000.00 from Opus Capital and Clearstone Venture Partners.
Marketing Manager
2005 - 2006
I ran LinkedIn for Groups and marketing for the sales team.
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Research Assistant/Intern
2003 - 2004