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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

4991 CONNECTIONS

Hotmail Network

4991 CONNECTIONS

MIT Sloan School of Management Network

232 CONNECTIONS

University of California, Santa Barbara Network

102 CONNECTIONS

UC Santa Barbara Network

82 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), Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Joseph Lau (Alchemy Ventures), Fred Wilson (Flatiron Partners), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Fiona Kelly (Baseline Community + Fund), Paul Stamatiou (TCV), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Fernando Martinelli (Balancer Labs), Itamar Lesuisse (Ready (formerly Argent)), Eamon Leonard (Broadstone), William Boebel (Capital Factory), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Scott Belsky (A24), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Ricky Engelberg (Maximum Effort), Joe Stump (Challenge Accepted, LLC), Nikil Viswanathan (The Alchemy Fund), Stani Kulechov (Aave Labs), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Michael Mignano (Spotify), 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 (Cambrian Asset Management LLC), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Michael Dunworth (Boost VC), Joshua Baer (Capital Thought), 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), Tegan Kline, Reggie James, Anthony Pompliano, Shishir Mehrotra
Optimism	Series AFeb 2021$25M	$180M
Co-investors: Chris Dixon (Curated)
Chia Network	SeedMar 2018$3M	$69M
Co-investors: Katie Haun (Haun Ventures), Kevin Ding (Polychain Capital), Jill Carlson (Slow Ventures), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems)
FalconX	SeedN/A$5M	$480M
Co-investors: Scott Shleifer (Tiger Global Management), Rashmi Gopinath (B Capital Group), Harshul Sanghi (American Express Ventures), Rajeev Dham (Outreach), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital), Aly Walji (Sparq Capital (SFO)), Jacob Conger (The MBA Fund), Jon Kol (Abacus Works), Raviraj Jain (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Kumar Dandapani (Cadenza Ventures)

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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