SaaS Founder, Enthusiast & Investor
Palo Alto, California
Founder- VC
Partner
September 2013 to Present
SaaStr
Trusted Advisor
August 2012 to Present
Adobe Systems
Vice President, Web Business Services
July 2011 to 2012
EchoSign, Inc.
Co-founder, ceo
2005 to July 2011
NanoGram Devices Corp
Co-Founder, President
2001 to 2004
NeoPhotonics
Vice President, Strategic Development
2001 to 2002
BabyCenter
Sr. Director, Corporate Development
1997 to 2000
Venture Law Group
Corporate Counsel
1996 to 1999
I lead $250k-$5m initial investments in great SaaS companies with founders that are Better Than Me. Generally, with at Least 10 Unaffiliated Customers. I've done some pretty good ones, including leading the very first or very early VC investments in Talkdesk, Algolia, RainforestQA, Logikcull, Pipedrive, Perfect Pipeline, SalesLoft, and Avanoo, and sourcing the first VC investments in... I lead $250k-$5m initial investments in great SaaS companies with founders that are Better Than Me. Generally, with at Least 10 Unaffiliated Customers. I've done some pretty good ones, including leading the very first or very early VC investments in Talkdesk, Algolia, RainforestQA, Logikcull, Pipedrive, Perfect Pipeline, SalesLoft, and Avanoo, and sourcing the first VC investments in GuideSpark and Greenhouse.io, and serving on the board of BetterWorks. Collectively these investments have grown to be worth over $1 billion, with an average entry price of $13m, in less than 2 years. I also serve as an advisor or individual investor in Showpad, FrontApp, Retention Science, among other emerging leaders.
What company does Jason Lemkin work for?
Jason Lemkin works for Founder- VC
What is Jason Lemkin's role at Founder- VC?
Jason Lemkin is Partner
What industry does Jason Lemkin work in?
Jason Lemkin works in the Internet industry.
Who are Jason Lemkin's colleagues?
Jason Lemkin's colleagues are Mallun Yen, Amelia Ibarra, and Thomas Mazimann
📖 Summary
Helping, founding, and growing start-ups. Making it a positive-sum game for everyone involved. "Do or do not. There is no try." Specialties: helping people grow and become their best. doing not the impossible, but the unlikely. never giving up.Partner @ I lead $250k-$5m initial investments in great SaaS companies with founders that are Better Than Me. Generally, with at Least 10 Unaffiliated Customers. I've done some pretty good ones, including leading the very first or very early VC investments in Talkdesk, Algolia, RainforestQA, Logikcull, Pipedrive, Perfect Pipeline, SalesLoft, and Avanoo, and sourcing the first VC investments in GuideSpark and Greenhouse.io, and serving on the board of BetterWorks. Collectively these investments have grown to be worth over $1 billion, with an average entry price of $13m, in less than 2 years. I also serve as an advisor or individual investor in Showpad, FrontApp, Retention Science, among other emerging leaders. From September 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Trusted Advisor @ A social community of 10,000+ SaaS founders and executives and over 2,200,000 viewers a month dedicated to sharing best learnings, insights and practices around building and scaling SaaS business from nothing, to Initial Traction, to Initial Scale, and beyond. Paying back and sharing key learnings (hard knock and otherwise) from going from $0 to $100m in SaaS. Continuing to work on ways to do this bigger and more effectively than ever. Puts on www.SaaStrAnnual.com for over 5,000+ SaaS Founders. PLEASE COME!! :) #1 enterprise & SaaS blog / content / writer on Quora. From August 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Vice President, Web Business Services @ EchoSign from Adobe is the leading 100% web-based e-signature and contract automation service with 1.1m customers and 16m users and used by 9/10 of the top leaders on the web, Facebook, Google, Pandora, Groupon, Twitter, LivingSocial, Yelp, Oracle, SAP, Coca-Cola, Dell, Citrix, VMWare, EMC, Taleo, Successfactors, RightNow, you name it. In March 2013, Adobe announced EchoSign and the Web Services business had hit $64,000,000 in ARR at Q1'13 and $140,000,000+ ARR by FYE'13. ----------- More than 95% of all documents that are digitally signed use the Adobe family of products: Acrobat, Reader, LiveCycle, and since July 2011, #1 ranked EchoSign. And you can start using EchoSign for free from any browser. http://www.echosign.com #thepowerofadobe From July 2011 to 2012 (1 year) Co-founder, ceo @ EchoSign is the next great on-demand sales tool. It is simply the fastest and easiest way to get contracts signed, tracked, and filed. E-signature or fax signature. Our 5,000,000 users and 50,000+ customers (including leaders such as Google, Facebook, Pandora, Groupon, American Express, Comcast, Aetna, Twitter, LivingSocial, BT, GE, Qualcomm, CIGNA, Dow Jones, P&G, American Express, Facebook, Dell, TimeWarner, Delta Airlines, Symantec, VMware, AOL, Citrix, Nationwide, UnitedHealthcare and many more) close deals on average in just 42 minutes using EchoSign. Send, Sign, Done. We're profitable, we're doing cool things -- and WE ARE HIRING! EchoSign was acquired by Adobe in July 2011 and was backed by Storm Ventures, Emergence Capital, me, and friends. From 2005 to July 2011 (6 years) Co-Founder, President @ At NanoGram Devices we pioneered using nanotechnology to dramatically enhance the performance of power sources for implantable medical devices. NDC technology enables implantable defibrillators and pacemakers to last years longer -- saving lives. NDC was acquired by the market leader for speciality power sources, Greatbatch Inc. (NYSE: GB) for ~$50,000,000. NanoSVO was qualified for implantable use in 2007 and has since gone on to extend/save thousands of lives. Served as VP, Corp Dev @ affiliate NeoPhotonics Corp From 2001 to 2004 (3 years) Vice President, Strategic Development @ I was brought in by the CEO and the Board to investigate and commercialize new uses for the Company's technology at revenue zero. Ultimately, I helped the CEO focus the core business on telecommunications and raise $30m in venture capital, and then licensed its nascent technology for implantable power sources, using that to start and co-found NanoGram Devices (see above). NeoPhotonics has since gone on to a successful IPO on the NYSE and a multi-hundred million dollar revenue business. From 2001 to 2002 (1 year) Sr. Director, Corporate Development @ Since its founding, BabyCenter has been the leading destination on the Internet for new and expectant parents. According to Alexa it is the 300th highest trafficked U.S. site on the 'net, dwarfing all competitors. Consumer Health Interactive; Johnson & Johnson; eToys From 1997 to 2000 (3 years) Corporate Counsel @ I fought the good fight. From 1996 to 1999 (3 years) ExecMgmtPgrm @ Stanford GSBJD @ University of California, Berkeley - School of Law From 1993 to 1996 B.A. @ Harvard University From 1987 to 1991 Jason Lemkin is skilled in: Mille Bornes, Hypermiling, Telling It Straight, Start-ups, Contract Negotiation, Web Applications, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Product Development, Product Marketing, Marketing Automation, Mergers, Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Partnerships
Introversion (I), Intuition (N), Feeling (F), Judging (J)
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