William Schneiderman
Founder's Coach and Mentor at AI Squared
Berkeley, California
Overview
Work Experience
Strategic Adviser and Investor
2019 - Current
Sorcero delivers 10X expert productivity in life science companies using carefully and extensively tailored Natural Language Processing and AI to unlock Enterprise knowledge buried in reams of unstructured data. Sharpened the firm's customer focus and value proposition for both funding and marketing approaches.
Founder's Coach and Mentor
2021
Transforming AI models from an island in Data Science to an indispensable element of operations at scale by embedding insights right in workflows - exactly when and where needed.
AI Squared develops an AI integration platform that helps organizations deliver data and AI insights into business applications.
Raised $19,800,000.00 from Ridgeline, New Enterprise Associates, Roger Ferguson, Ansa Capital and Latimer Ventures.
Startup Mentor
2022
The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating startups whose customers are largely business enterprises. The accelerator backs teams with distinctive technical founders, and provides funding, a fellowship of high potential founders, highly sought after mentors, customer development, and a structured path to fundraising.
AWS Healthcare is a global healthcare accelerator.
Investor
2019
Madorra is empowering women to live fuller, richer, healthier lives by developing the first non-invasive, non-hormonal medical device to treat vaginal atrophy. An easy-to-use, at-home device, providing immediate and long-term benefits without the risks of current hormone-based approaches.
Madorra is a women's health firm that develops solutions to improve quality of life after menopause.
Raised $5,592,809.00 from 51 Labs.
Instructor Bay Area I-Corps
2019
I-Corps is an intensive, customer-discovery-based, NSF program for founders to find their customer and develop business models that work. As their Instructor, I have helped hundreds of founding teams learn how to rapidly find business truth and accelerate their journey.
National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports research and education in the fields of science and engineering.
Adviser
2018
SkyDeck is one of the largest startup accelerators and seed investors in the world. As Sky Adviser, I help teams craft their customer and investor facing approaches, make their key decisions, and meet the right people for business and customer development.
SkyDeck Berkeley is a research university accelerator that serves as an apex startup launchpad for affiliated entrepreneurs.
Chairman Advisory Board
2015 - 2020
Pemco Holdings, LLC (Pemco) increases real estate value by reducing energy operating costs without incurring owner capital investment. As Chairman, I focused the team's efforts and resources to take the company from near-death to consistent profitability.
Pemco Capital is a developer of sustainable energy projects that offers renewable energy and energy storage solutions.
Advisory Board Member
2016 - 2018
OpsPanda is a SAAS company driving growth and profitability for client companies by right-sizing, right-timing and right-skilling sales resources. I authored several white papers supporting the product rationale, marketing approach and messages that helped lead to OpsPanda's sale to Exactly in September 2018.
SaaS startup focused on Sales Resource Planning
Raised $6,000,000.00 from TDF Ventures.
Founder and CEO
1994 - 2018
The Results Group (TRG) delivers consulting for rapid and robust product, service and process innovation and change. Under Bill’s leadership, the firm grew 1,000% by becoming a trusted partner in Silicon Valley & beyond. Sample client results include: acceleration of innovation velocity for a previously dominant technology player, paving the way for renewed leadership; dramatically improved market share, inventory turnover and stock price for a top-three semiconductor equipment company; turnaround of an immature and dysfunctional supply chain in the midst of an exponential business-growth crisis for an emerging mobile internet infrastructure provider; doubling of caller satisfaction with international support center performance for a financial software leader.
Adjunct Professor
2018 - 2018
In CCA's pioneering Design Strategy MBA program, student teams design a new business venture from the ground up. As their Industry Mentor, I enjoy working with the students to increase their business acumen and grow in their professional identity.
Education
MBA with Highest Distinction
1982 - 1984
Ph. D.
1971 - 1976
AB
1967 - 1971