I build AI teams

I’m a generalist with a wide range of experiences in sales, GTM strategy, and business development across early stage startups to Amazon. 

I focus on applied AI, with a particular interest in computer vision applications. 

Outside of the above, I spend most of my time outdoors with my family (including 2 young girls + dog) and working on my pickleball game : )

Sheikh Shuvo

Climate, mental health, consumer internet

More info coming soon.

Co-Founder

CannaGather

CannaGather is New York’s largest legal cannabis industry community, with a particular focus on the entrepreneurial state thereof and opportunities therein. Given the need for overdue legislative change here in NY, we also help unite leading advocates. We host monthly education and networking events of 200+ people in NY, LA, CO, NJ, MD, and beyond.

Founder

Angel

Investments:

Current
- Tribalist, tribalist.io
- CodeSignal, codesignal.com
- FJ Labs I, https://fundersclub.com/fabrice-grinda/
- FJ Labs II, https://fundersclub.com/fabrice-grinda/
- Upstream, https://upstreamapp.com/
- Goodworld, https://goodworldnow.com/
- Piper, playpiper.com
- JetInsight, jetinsight.com
- Missionmark, https://www.missionmark.com/
- Better Place Forests, http://betterplaceforests.com
- FJ Labs IV, https://fundersclub.com/fabrice-grinda/
- The Blinc Group, http://www.theblincgroup.com
- Massive, http://joinmassive.com/
- Tap Projects, http://www.findtap.com
- Finalis, https://www.finalis.com/
- Asia Horizon / Acquaria, https://www.aquaria.world/
- Elix, https://elixhealing.com/
- Three Wishes, https://threewishescereal.com/
- Leda Health, https://www.leda.co/
- Kernls, https://kernls.com/
- Andrena, http://andrena.com/
- FJ Labs 2021, angel.co
- Cellibre, https://www.cellibre.com/
- FluentPet, http://www.fluentpet.com/
- Undisclosed cannabis
- Undisclosed crypto
- Undisclosed defense

Alums
- Airbnb ($ABNB) [SPV]
- Recombine [acquired by $COO]
- Rebel [acquired by Salesforce]
- TransparentCareer [acquired by RelishCareers relishcareers.com] 
- Ando [acquired by UberEATS]
- Orchestra One
- ProGrowTech
- Compass Pathways ($CMPS) [SPV]
- Phosphorous, phosphorous.com
- Clever Leaves ($CLVR)

Investor (inactive) 

Palantir Technologies

Deployment Strategist

Product/Strategy Consultant

January: Advised largest talent agency on stealth mobile application product strategy

February-May: Served as acting CTO/VP Product for non-profit crowd-funding platform. Mapped strategy, product requirements, and prioritization.  Led redesign and development, successfully wrangling a legacy PHP codebase.

YouAreTV

We developed a highly scalable live streaming platform that enabled the audience to not just watch, but also video call-in and participate. Led product management and developed with technologies including Ruby on Rails, Node.js/Backbone, PostgreSQL, redis and Objective C. Secured partnerships with Viacom, The Mexican President's Office, Techonomy, iCracked and celebrities like Jim Chapman.

Featured on Bloomberg TV: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-future-of-television-digital-interaction-lped8twNSyuiMWRjoNRSUQ.html

Founder / CEO

GoodCrush

Built trio of social sites for college students GoodCrush.com, RandomDorm.com and later merged the two into CollegeOnly.com. Raised $1.15m from FirstMark Capital, SoftBank Capital, Peter Thiel, High Line Venture Partners, David Kidder and David Tisch.

Featured in NYT, WSJ, Business Insider and dozens of campus newspapers. Pioneered anonymous matching-based dating site model on college campuses. Attracted 80,000 users across the three sites within the first eight months. Pivoted to focus on YouAreTV.

NYT link: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/collegeonly-a-social-network-just-for-the-university-set/?_r=0
WSJ link: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704111704575355323155530784

Undergraduate Student Government

Class Senator '06-'07 -> Vice President '07-'08 -> President '08-09

Co-Founded CollegeGovs - a nation-wide listserv for 300+ student body presidents

President

Josh has spent the last 13 years building early-stage ventures as well as investing in 25+ companies, helping an additional dozen raise funds, and advising a multitude of others. Most recently, he fostered the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the multi-bottom line cannabis industry by hosting monthly education and networking events. Speakers included members of Congress, billion-dollar company CEOs, athletes, and celebrities. This grew to hundreds of attendees and expanded around the country.

Josh has spent the majority of his time and focus in tech. His first company was a venture-backed consumer social site featured in NYT and WSJ that pivoted into a video platform used by disparate folks ranging from Viacom to the Mexican President’s Office. Prior thereto, he created a new type of survey methodology funded by Google.org and used by Wikipedia, the Washington Post, and more. 

Josh graduated from Princeton in 2009 where he was student body president and earned a degree in East Asian Studies with a focus on Chinese language. He is the former US High School speed chess champion and a chess Master, now addicted to ping pong. Josh is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer agent with Series 82 and 63 certification.

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