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    RC Willenbrock

    RC Willenbrock

    Head of Product @ SV; Partner @ Multivariate; Co-founder & CPO @ CompIQ; Founder & Advisor @ Stella.ai; Prev. Morgan Stanley IB; Dartmouth, UPenn

    Head Of Growth New York City University of Pennsyl...
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    Experience
    Systematic Ventures
    Systematic Ventures
    Partner & Head of Product 2019 - Present (over 7 years)
    - Building software and ML systems for more inclusive and enlarged private markets by
    predicting the future growth paths of private companies.
    - Evangelize product vision... more while developing detailed product roadmaps.
    - Cultivate strong relationships with founders, venture firms, and accelerators.
    - Prospect, evaluate, execute, and monitor investments across a diverse set of funds.

    ***Affiliated investment funds & roles:
    - Partner of Clearway, an automated venture debt fund.
    - Managing Partner of RCVC, an early-stage venture capital firm.
    - Member of Family Office of initial Ethereum investor.

    At Systematic we are building the foundation for more inclusive and enlarged private markets. Systematic deploys proprietary machine learning to predict future growth paths of private companies.

    Leveraging the predictive insights of Systematic, we manage and invest through:
    - Clearway, an automated venture debt fund providing fast founder friendly non-dilutive capital.
    - RCVC, an early stage venture firm investing in businesses with strong compounding moats and exceptional founding teams.
    - Family office funds of initial investor in Ethereum.
    MULTIVARIATE
    MULTIVARIATE
    Partner 2019 - Present (over 7 years)
    - Executed over $90MM of secondary market liquidity transactions.
    - Conduct fundamental research on late and growth-stage tech companies.
    - Manage product development... more and advisory relating to strategy consulting, systematic
    investment advisory, valuation services, and data valuation/monetization.
    - Incubated three SaaS products and scaled each of them to >$1MM ARR:
    - Systematic Ventures (predicting venture performance patterns).
    - CLIO (forecasting box office returns and audience ratings of films).
    - Signal (systematic approach to equity risk, portfolio optimization, and management).
    Systematic Ventures
    Systematic Ventures
    Founder
    CompIQ
    CompIQ
    Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer 2015 - 2019 (about 4 years)
    Acquired December 2018

    At CompIQ, we bring a high IQ to the process of compensation decision making commensurate to the value of your people while ensuring pay equity... more compliance.

    - Raised $3.5MM from industry leaders, expanded team to 15 people, grew to 85+
    enterprise clients, and negotiated successful $17MM acquisition.
    - Directed product team; built and maintained customer relationships with 97% retention.
    - Annual speaker for Silicon Valley Bank, Bank of America, CFA Institute, and HFM.
    Flux
    Exit
    Flux
    Head of Product & CMO 2014 - 2016 (over 2 years)
    - Built dynamic pricing model to help venues monetize high demand tickets, managed
    product team, and developed cross-channel marketing strategies from measured KPIs.
    -... more Increased conversion rate from 1.5% to 6.7% and grew monthly active users by 15x.
    Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley
    Investment Banking, Technology Group 2012 - 2014 (about 2 years)
    - Conducted financial analyses and business due diligence.
    - Advised on initial public offering processes to Kayak and others; modeled merger scenarios for a leading technology... more services company in a reverse merger transaction
    Rockefeller Beds
    Rockefeller Beds
    Co-Owner/Founder 2011 - 2013 (about 2 years)
    Successful sale in 2013
    Stella.ai
    Stella.ai
    Advisor & Product Lead 2015 - 2021 (about 6 years)
    Level Equity
    Level Equity
    Growth Equity Investor 2014 - 2015 (about 1 year)
    Level Equity is a growth equity investor. We invest in growing businesses and use our capital and resource base to help these successful companies reach extraordinary outcomes.... more We aim to be the investor of choice for entrepreneurs who have many options for capital.

    The team has invested in 48 growth-stage software, internet and media businesses, 31 of which have been exited through IPO or sale. Investments include: BoardEffect, eTouches, Made.com, Radiate Media, Riskonnect, CampusBookRentals (Sidewalk), SiteHawk, TeamDynamix, and Wombat Security.
    Founder
    Systematic Ventures
    Employee
    Morgan Stanley, Level Equity, Stella.ai, Rockefeller Beds, Flux, CompIQ, MULTIVARIATE, Systematic Ventures
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    About
    Achievements

    Success & Failures
    4X Founder. 3X Exits. 1X Massive Failure.

    Stella.ai (acquired by Trilantic Capital & Cornell Capital in Feb. 2021)
    CompIQ (acquired Dec. 2018)
    Flux (acquired May 2016)

    Currently Head of Product and Partner @ Systematic Ventures - building software products and ML systems to support the foundation for more inclusive and enlarged private markets.

    Investing
    Acting Head of Product & Partner of Clearway, an automated $50M venture debt fund and Managing Partner of RCVC, an early-stage venture firm.
    Investor and advisor to early stage technology companies.

    I enjoy building things that have impact. I am most interested in applying technological solutions to solve global issues stemming from the proliferation of access to data and knowledge bases.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Enterprise Software Microsoft Office Python Statistics SQL Front-End Development Sketch UI/UX Design Product Strategy Product Development Product Management Product Design User Experience Strategy Machine Learning Data Science Python Algorithms & Data Structures Business Intelligence Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Technology Data Analysis Machine Learning Data Visualization Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
    Locations
    San Francisco Denver
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