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Joe Gerber(202)

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Managing Partner at IDEO CoLab Ventures

twitter.com/ideovcOakland, California

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Networks Joe is a member of

Hotmail Network

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Hotmail Network

4981 CONNECTIONS

MIT Sloan School of Management Network

196 CONNECTIONS

University of California, Santa Barbara Network

92 CONNECTIONS

UC Santa Barbara Network

73 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

IDEO CoLab Ventures Managing Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$500K

Investments On Record

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Joe Gerber's Investments On Record (5)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Karma3 Labs	Series UnknownJan 2023$5M	$10M
Co-investors: Kavita Gupta (Katapult VC)
XMTP	SeedMay 2021$5M	$45M
Co-investors: Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Joseph Lau (Alchemy Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Itamar Lesuisse (Ready (formerly Argent)), Eamon Leonard (Broadstone), William Boebel (Capital Factory), Ricky Engelberg (Maximum Effort), Joe Stump (Challenge Accepted, LLC), Nikil Viswanathan (The Alchemy Fund), Stani Kulechov (Aave Labs), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Courtney Guertin (Ease), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Josh Williams (Form Capital), Chris Kurdziel (Samsung NEXT Ventures), Jess Sloss (Seed Club Ventures), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Kneeland Youngblood (Pharos Capital Group), Martin Green (HawksHead Capital), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Michael Dunworth (Boost VC), Fred Wilson (Flatiron Partners), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Fiona Kelly (Baseline Community + Fund), Paul Stamatiou (TCV), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Fernando Martinelli (Balancer Labs), Scott Belsky (A24), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Joshua Baer (iCiDIGITAL), Ethan Beard (Piazza Venture Labs), Narendra Rocherolle (The Start Project), Bobby Goodlatte (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Ben Huh (Y Combinator), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Aaron Batalion (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Maaria Bajwa (Timespan Ventures), Joe Lallouz (Ambush Capital), Anthony Pompliano, Reggie James, Balaji Srinivasan, Tegan Kline, Shishir Mehrotra
Optimism	Series AFeb 2021$25M	$180M
Co-investors: Chris Dixon (Curated)
Chia Network	SeedMar 2018$3M	$69M
Co-investors: Kevin Ding (Polychain Capital), Jill Carlson (Slow Ventures), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems)
FalconX	SeedN/A$5M	$480M
Co-investors: Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Scott Shleifer (Tiger Global Management), Rashmi Gopinath (B Capital Group), Kumar Dandapani (Cadenza Ventures), Harshul Sanghi (American Express Ventures), Jacob Conger (The MBA Fund), Rajeev Dham (Outreach), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital), Aly Walji (Sparq Capital (SFO)), Jon Kol (Abacus Works)

Joe Gerber's Experience

Managing Partner IDEO CoLab Ventures2018 - Present

Asst. Scientist Miravant PharmaceuticalsPresent

Asst. Scientist HotmailPresent

Sr. Research Associate Takeda OncologyPresent

Sr. Research Associate Millennium PharmaceuticalsPresent

Sr. Product Manager, Online Strategy Fidelity InvestmentsPresent

Director, IDEO Futures IDEOPresent

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy HotmailPresent

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy NYUPresent

Professor School of Visual ArtsPresent

Managing Director IDEO CoLab VenturesPresent

Managing Director IDEO CoLabPresent

Managing Director IDEO2009 - 2018

Product Manager Fidelity Investments2007 - 2008

Joe Gerber's Education

University of California, Santa Barbara BS Biology

UC Santa Barbara BS Biology

MIT Sloan School of Management MBA

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