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    Brianne Kimmel

    Brianne Kimmel

    Founder of Worklife Ventures, the first venture capital firm for the new era of builders, creators, and individual contributors

    Angel San Francisco
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    Experience
    Join me at Zendesk!
    10 Open Positions · $145k–$300k/yr
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    HireClub
    HireClub
    Advisor
    Grabr
    Grabr
    Advisor
    Voyage
    Voyage
    Advisor
    Voxeet
    Voxeet
    Advisor
    Ant
    Ant
    Advisor
    Worklife Ventures
    Worklife Ventures
    Founder, Founder 2018 - Present (over 8 years)
    An invite-only program for founders to learn from executives at Dropbox, Drift, Slack & more

    SaaS School is a network driven program supported by executives who... more are active angel investors and happy to help the next generation of great cloud companies

    This event is for companies with traction and signals which indicate product market fit. It’s best suited for companies with at least $1M ARR
    Zendesk
    Zendesk
    GTM Strategy 2016 - Present (almost 10 years)
    GTM strategy including self-serve revenue, technology integrations and new product launched.

    Platform expansion: launched Zendesk suite of products
    Revenue growth:... more self-serve revenue growth & upmarket strategy
    Competitive strategy: intelligence, benchmarking, international expansion

    I built Zendesk’s program for startups, representing 3k startups and 250+ incubators and accelerators including: Y Combinator, Startup Grind Global and launched Zendesk incubation lab at Station F.
    General Assembly
    General Assembly
    Teacher, product management and user acquisition 2014 - 2018 (about 4 years)
    REVL
    REVL
    Founding team (YC W16) 2016 (6 months)
    Zero to GTM (YC W16)

    Product development (Frog Ventures), PR launch (ASTRSK PR)
    Customer development & user research

    Featured in 40+ publications over... more 60 days including WSJ, TechCrunch, VentureBeat
    Investors include Bill Tai, James Lindenbaum, Lars Rasmussen
    Sydney Young Professionals
    Sydney Young Professionals
    Founder (acquired in 2015) 2013 - 2015 (almost 2 years)
    Created highly profitable networking group in Sydney
    ▪ Operations: financial modeling, event planning, sponsorships and member benefits strategy
    ▪ Growth: grew database... more to 25k young professionals, 500+ monthly event attendees
    ▪ Strategic partnerships: Virgin Australia, Vivid Sydney, Sydney Festival and more
    Founder
    Worklife Ventures
    Employee
    REVL, Zendesk, Sydney Young Professionals, General Assembly
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    Ant, Voxeet, Voyage, Grabr, HireClub
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
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    Acquired
     
     
    About
    Achievements

    Brianne Kimmel is an early stage startup investor and advisor.

    Business Insider recently named Brianne a top angel investor that every startup should know alongside Ellen Pao and Cyan Bannister.

    Brianne previously worked on the go-to-market team at Zendesk focused on self-serve revenue growth, technology integrations and built a program for startups.

    Prior to Zendesk, Brianne worked on user growth at Expedia including building and launching a new product in China. She has taught over 5,000 students at General Assembly and advises venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Innovation & Growth Financial Modeling
    Locations
    Asia Silicon Valley
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