Jamie Goldstein (Pillar)

Nov 2, 2016, 10:00 PM – Nov 3, 2016, 1:00 AM

Jamie is the Founder at Pillar, a new “founder-friendly” VC fund with CEOs of some of Boston's most well-known tech companies (ie. Wayfair, Rapid7, TripAdvisor, DraftKings). His goal: change the traditional venture capital structure to make the relationship between founders and investors more equitable and transparent. Also a serial entrepreneur and former partner at North Bridge Venture Partners.

In-person event

About this event

Jamie Goldstein is the Founder at Pillar, a new founder-friendly VC fund in Boston. Pillar’s team includes 16 world-class CEOs from Boston's most well-known tech companies, including Wayfair, Rapid7, TripAdvisor and DraftKings. All are investors, advisors and board members to Pillar’s portfolio companies. Jamie’s vision is to change the traditional venture capital structure to better align an equitable and transparent relationship between founders and investors.

For over 18 years, Jamie served as a General Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners (NBVP), focusing on software, data center infrastructure, wired and wireless communications technologies, and advanced materials investments. . Jamie’s active investments include Actifio, Plexxi, Layer3 TV, QD Vision and O3b Networks. Jamie is also an active individual investor; his most recent notable investments include DipJar and Desktop Metal.

Prior to NBVP, Jamie, co-founded PureSpeech, a speech recognition software company acquired by Voice Control Systems and subsequently sold to Nuance.

Jamie is a graduate of MIT in Electrical Engineering and the Harvard Business School.

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Speaker

  • Jamie Goldstein

    Pillar

When

When

November 2 – 3, 2016
10:00 PM – 1:00 AM UTC

Agenda

Food & Networking
Fireside Chat
Networking

Organizers

  • Jason Kraus

    Startup Grind

    Chapter Director

  • Yevgeny Ioffe

    Mi-Si Electronics Design, Inc.

    Co-Director

  • Steve Vilkas

    Prepare 4 VC

    Community Builder

  • Christopher Dube

    Prepare 4 VC

    Community Builder

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