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    Jakob Broaddus

    Jakob Broaddus

    Bridging the gap between technology and business. Deal flow sourcing, due-diligence, adept in lean development practices, investor/startup matchmaking.

    Project Manager Austin University of Houston...
    shadowsoptional.com
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    Experience
    Newchip Accelerator
    Newchip Accelerator
    Investor Relations Associate 2022 (8 months)
    Sourcing, vetting, and collecting diligence information on new sources of Investment for portfolio companies
    ● Sending regular curated deals and making connections to our... more investor network in the form of lists, private screening sessions, and direct intros
    ● Industry agnostic portfolio of Preseed, Seed, and Series A stage companies. Focus in Proptech, Enterprise Software, CPG, CleanTech
    ● Angels, VCs, Family Offices, Corporate Investors, and PE
    ● Inputting, tracking, and monitoring deals, contacts, and startups with Hubspot and Monday.com
    Venture Scout 2020 - 2022 (over 1 year)
    Personally scheduling and conducing due diligence on an average of 30 interviews a week with startups seeking pre-seed to series A investment
    ● Tracked Admissions, sales,... more and follow up processes within Sales Navigator, Outreach, Hubspot
    ● Conducted automated and personalized outreach to founders using Kennected and LinkedIn
    ● Talked to 1000s of startups globally to learn about their investment landscape and fundraising challenges
    ● Validated startups for revenue, fundraising, founder experience, and other relevant KPIs while providing recommendations to Admissions team
    Shadows
    Shadows
    Project Manager & Unity Developer 2019 - 2022 (almost 3 years)
    Developing gamified solutions using SDLC to solve problems specializing in augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies
    Managing Unity development team executing... more weekly game development sprints with cross-functional teams of 3-13
    Utilized Agile software development methodologies in structured programming sprints to meet evolving client and internal project needs
    Applied DEVOPs strategies to monitor and improve internal development practices with team members for game development projects
    Cougar
    Cougar
    Early Stage Investment Analyst 2019 (3 months)
    Evaluated early stage companies for $25,000 in Angel investment as part of a team of MBAs and Law Students for the CVF
    Conducted due diligence on the legal, financial,... more industry, business and market aspects of a SAAS oil and oil and gas startup
    Wrote memorandum and presented our recommendation on whether to invest to the CVF board
    ThermaMetrics
    ThermaMetrics
    Team Lead 2018 - 2019 (11 months)
    Lead a small team of 5 to commercialize a NASA developed intellectual property to determine product/market fit
    Wrote pitch decks, gathered testimonials, ran case studies,... more and developed videos
    Participated & pitched as 1 of 15 teams in the Queens Entrepreneurship Competition in Toronto Canada
    Won $2,500 in startup capital at the WCE business plan competition
    Core Simulations
    Core Simulations
    2018 - 2019 (4 months)
    Ran restaurant logistics and operations with team of 40 people including setup and teardown of the event space
    Negotiated and coordinated with vendors to get 100% of the... more food donated to sell for the event
    Designed charity box resulting in ~$17,000 in donations to the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship
    Worked with Wolffest team to run a pop-up restaurant accumulating a total of ~$47,000 in donations and service sales
    COO & Unity Developer 2017 - 2018 (over 1 year)
    Co-Established Core Simulations LLC, a medical virtual reality startup and performed strategic and tactical planning * Facilitated professional relationships with of medical,... more business, and programmer individuals across Houston * Implemented lean startup methodology, and canvas business models as part of the Redlabs, OwlSpark, and MDAnderson ICorps accelerators * Conducted 100+ customer interviews along with analysis and research in the customer discovery process to determine target markets
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    Core Simulations, ThermaMetrics, Cougar, Shadows, Newchip Accelerator
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    Incubator
     
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    Projects
    Shadows Optional Demo Reel - VR | AR | Art | Animation | Systems Developme;nt
    Collection of game dev work in a variety of verticals
    Music by Realm Recordings: https://therealmrecordings.bandcamp.com/
     
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    About
    Skills
    Agile Agile methodology Business Plan C# Documentation Due Diligence Git Gitlab Google Docs Jira Logistics Management Microsoft Product Development Programming Project Management Project Manager Quality Assurance Salesforce SCRUM SDLC Software Software Development Test Team Lead Close.Io Marketing Automation
    Locations
    Austin Boston
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