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Ethan Beard(204)

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Board Member at Venture Lab
San Francisco, California
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69 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and 66 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position
Piazza Venture Labs
Investments On Record
18

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Ethan Beard's Investments On Record (17)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Cosmology
SeedMar 2024$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Patrick Gallagher (Tuesday Capital), Kevin Lin
Arkive
SeedJul 2022$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Joe McCann (Asymmetric), Vibhu Norby (Interlace Ventures), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Chris Cantino (Color Capital), Julian Weisser (Other Ventures), Leore Avidar (Lobby Capital), Pascal Unger (Focal), CJ Reim (Amity Ventures), Daniel Darling (Darling Ventures)
BeetsDAO
SeedSep 2021$2M
$2M
XMTP
Series AAug 2021$20M
$45M
Co-investors: Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Aaron Batalion (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Joseph Lau (Alchemy Ventures), Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), William Boebel (Capital Factory), Nikil Viswanathan (The Alchemy Fund), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Josh Williams (Form Capital), Chris Kurdziel (Samsung NEXT Ventures), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Kneeland Youngblood (Pharos Capital Group), Martin Green (HawksHead Capital), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Joshua Baer (iCiDIGITAL), Narendra Rocherolle (The Start Project), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Bobby Goodlatte (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Ben Huh (Y Combinator), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Maaria Bajwa (Timespan Ventures), Joe Lallouz (Ambush Capital), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Joe Gerber (IDEO CoLab Ventures), Fiona Kelly (Baseline Community + Fund), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Itamar Lesuisse (Ready (formerly Argent)), Eamon Leonard (Broadstone), Fernando Martinelli, Stani Kulechov, Michael Dunworth, Paul Stamatiou, Balaji Srinivasan, Shishir Mehrotra, Tegan Kline, Reggie James, Ricky Engelberg, Joe Stump, Anthony Pompliano, Courtney Guertin, Jess Sloss
BRD
Series UnknownOct 2019$750K
$750K
Co-investors: Cyril Moutran (Makers Camp)
Improvado
SeedApr 2018$3M
$8M
Co-investors: Jeff Epstein (Bessemer Venture Partners), Kim Perell (Unknown Ventures), Eric Franchi (Math Capital), Itamar Novick (Recursive Ventures (ICCA Labs)), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Paul Martino (Bullpen Capital), Alexey Alexanov (Cabra VC), Eric Franchi (AperiamVentures), Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin, Charlie Songhurst, Joe Zawadzki, David Yaffe, David Popowitz
Seesaw Learning
Series AFeb 2018$8M
SeedMar 2013$5M
$13M
Co-investors: Bubba Murarka (DFJ/Draper Associates/Draper University), Dan Rose (Coatue), Jeff Weiner (Next Play Ventures)
SafeGraph
Series AApr 2017$16M
$61M
Co-investors: Jeff Epstein (Bessemer Venture Partners), Chris Scoggins (SignalFire), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Cathy Gao (Sapphire Ventures), Scott Faber (NFX), Chris Farmer (SignalFire), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Alexander Rosen (Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA)), Alex Rosen (Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA)), Itamar Novick (Recursive Ventures (ICCA Labs)), Jonathan Abrams (8-Bit Capital), Pete Briger (Fortress Investment Group), Robert Pittman (iHeartMedia), Kim Perell (Unknown Ventures), Steve Drobny (Clocktower Technology Ventures), Jack Abraham (Atomico), Jonah Goodhart (WGI Group), Jonathan Swanson (Thumbtack), Tom Chavez (super{set}), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Jonathan Sands (Artist Capital), Brett Hurt (Austin Ventures), Shruti Gandhi (Array Ventures), Aniq Rahman (Vast Ventures), Will Harbin (KIXEYE), Mike Greenfield (TeamRankings.com), Jared Friedman (Israel Defense Forces), Brad Garlinghouse (Ripple VC), Matthew Cowan (Next47), Doug Chertok (Vast Ventures), Julia Popowitz (Broadway Angels), Adam D'Angelo, Brian O'Kelley, George Garrick, Saran Chari, Nicolas Berggruen, Joe Zawadzki, Joel Hornstein, Adrian Aoun, Russell Fradin, Eric Chernoff, Adam Foroughi, Russ Fradin

Ethan Beard's Experience

Board Member Venture Lab2023 - Present
Founding Board Chair Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco2022 - Present
Board Chair Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco2022 - Present
Member, Board of Directors Beyond 122011 - Present
Board Member, Venture Lab Advisory Board Wharton School of the University of PennsylvaniaPresent
Board Member KQEDPresent
Builder ClawNetPresent
Co-Founder and President Robyn FrankelPresent
Co-Founder and President IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Director of Operations, MTV Online MTV NetworksPresent
Co-Founder & CEO Yoz Labs2020 - 2023
Senior Vice President, Xpring Ripple2018 - 2020
Member, Board of Directors Parchment by Instructure2014 - 2020
Member, Board of Directors Parchment Inc.2014 - 2020
Member, Board of Directors RepresentUs2013 - 2020
Member, Board of Directors Represent.Us2013 - 2020
Member, Board of Directors Blin.gy2014 - 2017
Member, Board of Directors Chosen2014 - 2017
Entrepreneur in Residence Greylock2014 - 2015
Entrepreneur in Residence Greylock Partners2014 - 2015
Director, Facebook Platform Facebook2009 - 2012
Director, Business Development Facebook2008 - 2009
Director, Social Media Google2007 - 2008
Director, Social Media Google 2007 - 2008
Member, Board of Directors One Laptop Per Child2006 - 2008
Director, New Business Development Google2005 - 2007
Director, New Business Development Google 2005 - 2007
Manager, Strategic Partner Development Google2003 - 2005
Manager, Strategic Partner Development Google 2003 - 2005
Co-Founder and President BigSoccer.com1999 - 2001
Co-Founder and President NewCo1998 - 1999
Co-Founder and President Stanton Interactive1998 - 1999
Director of Operations, MTV Online Viacom1996 - 1998
Director of Operations MTV1996 - 1998
Director of Operations, MTV Online MTV NETWORKS1996 - 1998
Marketing Analyst, Cowntown Digital AT&T1995 - 1996
Marketing Analyst AT&T Downtown Digital1995 - 1996
Financial Analyst, Financial Engineering and Risk Management Bank of America1994 - 1995

Ethan Beard's Education

NYU Stern School of Business MBA Finance, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business MBA Finance, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
University of Pennsylvania Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics