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Andrew Cohen
Associate
Andrew Cohen is an Associate at Corner Ventures.
Andrew supports Corner’s target diligence, deal execution and operational efforts across all Corner platforms.
Prior to joining Corner, Andrew worked at Jefferies LLC in their Technology Investment Banking division. While at Jefferies, Andrew assisted in the overall execution of a broad range of transactions, including M&A, Equity and Debt across various verticals.
Andrew received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.
Yoni Zemlyak
Associate
Yoni Zemlyak is an Associate at Corner Ventures, where he works on Corner’s target diligence, deal execution and operational support efforts across all Corner platforms.
Prior to Corner, Yoni was an analyst at Deutsche Bank on the technology investment banking team, where he worked across M&A, equity, and debt products over a wide range of verticals.
Yoni received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jerry Letter
Partner, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer
Jerome “Jerry” Letter serves as a Partner, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Corner Ventures
Prior to joining Corner, Jerry served on the global leadership team at Airbnb as Director of Operations and Finance. He also served as the leader of Airbnb’s luxury business (Airbnb Luxe and Luxury Retreats) and prior to that the luxury business unit’s CFO and COO. Previously, he served as Partner, Chief Financial Officer and an Investment Professional at InterMedia Partners, L.P., where he led the execution of multiple buy/sell-side transactions and served on the boards of directors of multiple portfolio companies. Prior to that, he was a co-founding executive and Vice President of Finance at the Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network (YES Network), the sports network home of the New York Yankees and before that, he held senior finance positions at Exodus Communications, Inc. and GlobalCenter Inc. in Silicon Valley. He began his career at Arthur Andersen and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).
Jerry received his MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University.
Initial Investment Date: 2020
HQ: Oshrat, Israel
CEO: Saar Safra
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Beewise offers the world’s first AI-powered robotic apiary, the BeeHome. By fully automating beekeeping as well as optimizing pollination and honey production, the Beehome fundamentally changes the way we manage and protect earth’s most valuable pollinators.
Initial Investment Date: 2006
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
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Ambarella is a developer of semiconductor processing solutions for high-definition video capture, sharing, and display. The firm’s solutions are sold to original design manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers to be designed for use in infrastructure broadcast encoders, wearable device cameras, automotive cameras, and security cameras.
Initial Investment Date: 2012
HQ: San Francisco, CA
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Nextdoor connects neighbors to each other — and to everything nearby: Local businesses, services, news updates, recommendations and stuff for sale from the people down the block. Building connections in the real world is a universal human need.
Jane Batzofin
Partner
Jane Batzofin serves as a Partner across all Corner Ventures and Corner Capital platforms.
As a partner of a large family office, Jane has invested in, structured, and built large organizations across numerous fields (including real estate, renewables, infrastructure, and logistics). Jane previously served as Director and General Counsel for Green Lake Capital, leading one of the first Power Purchase Agreement Funds in the renewable energy space. In addition to her investing acumen and legal expertise, Jane supports Corner’s portfolio companies through her extensive operational and advisory capabilities.
Jane received her JD from Brooklyn Law School and her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
John Cadeddu
Co-founder &
General Partner
John Cadeddu co-founded Corner Ventures in 2018 and is a General Partner of the firm.
John is responsible for investments in FireEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE), Grubhub Inc., Nextdoor, 1Life Healthcare, Inc. (NASDAQ: ONEM), Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), Fabric, Prismo Systems, and Twin Health.
Prior to Corner, John was Co-Founder and Managing Director of DAG Ventures, a mid-stage venture capital partnership working with entrepreneurs and select early-stage VCs. From 2004 to 2016, DAG Ventures raised in excess of $1.6 billion over five funds and invested in ~180 companies.
John received his MBA from Stanford GSB and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
Tom Goodrich
Co-founder &
General Partner
Tom Goodrich co-founded Corner Ventures in 2018 and is a General Partner of the firm, leading Corner’s biotech investments.
Tom is responsible for investments in Armo Biosciences (Acquired by Lilly), Atara Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:ATRA) and Arresto Biosciences (Acquired by Gilead), Dantari Pharmaceuticals, Latigo Biotherapeutics, and Oncovalent Therapeutics.
Prior to Corner, Tom was Co-Founder and Managing Director of DAG Ventures, a mid-stage venture capital partnership working with entrepreneurs and select early-stage VCs, and before that was a Co-Founder and Managing Director of private equity firm Duff Ackerman and Goodrich.
Tom received his MBA from Stanford GSB and a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.
Marvin Tien
Co-founder &
General Partner
Marvin Tien co-founded Corner Ventures in 2018 and is a General Partner of the firm.
Marvin is responsible for investments in Healthy.io, Melio, Lawgeex, and Nexar.
Prior to Corner, Marvin co-managed Green Lake Capital, an investment subsidiary for Walsin Liwha Corp (TPE: 1605), which became one of the largest owners and operators of commercial and industrial solar power generation assets. Marvin also co-founded Ahana Capital, which was subsequently sold to ATN International (NASDAQ: ATNI) in 2014
Marvin received his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.
Jonathan Pulitzer
General Partner – Israel
Jonathan Pulitzer is a General Partner of Corner Ventures and co-leads the firm’s Israel investment team.
He is responsible for investments in SolarEdge (NASDAQ:SEDG), TPI Composites (NASDAQ:TPIC), Nanjing Gear (HKG:658), Sonnen (acquired by Shell) and Fluence (ASX:FLC).
Prior to joining Corner, Jonathan was the Founding Investor, Partner and Israeli Regional Leader at the $1B VC arm of General Electric. He brings to Corner Ventures deep local knowledge and access within the Israeli market.
Jonathan received his bachelor’s degree from New York University and is a Kauffman Fellow in venture capital.
David Kutcher
Venture Partner
David Kutcher is a Venture Partner with Corner Ventures.
Select prior investments include Vroom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRM), Immunome, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMNM), Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZYNE), ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. (NASDAQ: STKS), Montrose Environmental Group, Inc. (NYSE: MEG), TILT Holdings Inc. (OTCMKTS: TLLTF), Hydrofarm Holdings Group, Inc. and Mile High Labs International, Inc.
Before joining Corner Ventures, David was the Managing Partner at Torian Capital Partners, which now invests exclusively on behalf of his family. Previously, he was a Managing Director with Broadband Capital Management, a New York based merchant banking firm and was an advisor to its successor firm, Broadband Capital Partners, an alternative investment firm. David started his career as an M&A and securities lawyer. David also participated as a principal in two SPACs and advised on several others.
David received his JD from Samford University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of the South.
Kevin Tanaka
Principal
Kevin Tanaka is a Principal at Corner Ventures.
Kevin leads Corner’s target diligence, deal execution and operational support efforts across all Corner platforms.
Prior to joining Corner, Kevin worked at M-III Partners where he assisted M-III in its lead role as the financial and restructuring advisor to Sears prior to and through its restructuring. Preceding his role at M-III, Kevin was with Vista Equity Partners on the Private Equity team where he specialized in the evaluation and acquisition of enterprise software, data, and technology companies. Kevin started his career at Morgan Stanley as an investment banker in its Financial Sponsors Group.
Kevin received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Atsuo Sakurai
Partner – Japan
Atsuo Sakurai is a Partner of Corner Ventures and the Japanese Representative.
Prior to joining Corner Ventures, Atsuo was a Managing Executive Officer at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities. Prior to joining Mitsubishi, he worked with Nomura Securities since graduating from university. During his career at Mitsubishi and Nomura, he served in various roles including product development and marketing.
Atsuo received a bachelor’s degrees from Otaru University of Commerce.
Initial Investment Date: 2019
HQ: Westlake Village, CA
CEO: Richard Markus
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Dantari has developed a nanoparticle platform for getting drugs across the blood-brain barrier in the human central nervous system (CNS) in order to treat primary and metastatic tumors, and other CNS disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. The IP was licensed from a renowned research lab at the California Institute of Technology.
Initial Investment Date: 2019
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
CEO: Yonatan Adiri
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Pioneering the use of machine vision technology using the smartphone camera as a clinical grade medical device with a family of test products for diagnosing medical issues on the go, at home or in the clinic. Initially launched for urinalysis, they have since expanded to wound care monitoring with FDA and CE approved products.
Initial Investment Date: 2019
HQ: New York, NY
CEO: Elram Goren
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Provider of on-demand micro-fulfillment technology designed to re-define the way goods are fulfilled and delivered within cities. The company’s technology combines the benefits of local distribution with the economics of automated fulfillment, enabling grocers and retailers to offer faster and lower cost delivery in order make on-demand fulfillment scalable, convenient and profitable.
Initial Investment Date: 2020
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
CEO: Eran Shir
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Nexar provides AI-powered software and dashboard cameras, turning dashcams or smart phones into intelligent mapping products. The data from these dash cams is linked to create a network of cameras that, when coupled with Nexar’s proprietary software, populates maps with ‘fresh’ specified data and images from the street for a wide range of use cases.
Initial Investment Date: 2020
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
CEO: Anjan Venkatramani
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Prismo develops cybersecurity software that re-introduces fortified perimeters to modern, borderless enterprise networks. Modern enterprise networks have a vast number of entry points and invite users and applications from outside the network across a variety of devices, creating essentially borderless networks. Prismo’s software provides for a secure network border ensuring each network interaction is executed assuming zero trust and enforces least privilege access.
Initial Investment Date: 2020
HQ: Thousand Oaks, CA
CEO: Scott Wasserman
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Latigo Biotherapeutics is an early-stage drug discovery company developing novel, non-opioid therapies for chronic pain. Latigo aims to create a pain management therapy that does not create addiction, dependence or tolerability. They are utilizing unique, translated insights to provide a differentiated approach to targeting therapeutics across the blood-nerve barrier.
Initial Investment Date: 2020
HQ: Thousand Oaks, CA
CEO: Pete Feldman
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Oncovalent Therapeutics is an early-stage drug discovery company developing novel allosteric covalent inhibitors for oncology, aiming to build best-in-class and novel first in class IND candidates. Oncovalent focuses on a specific type of covalent inhibitor with potential for superior efficacy.
Initial Investment Date: 2020
HQ: Mountain View, CA
CEO: Jahangir Mohammed
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Twin Health is a developer of a precision health platform designed to measure and repair the damaged metabolism in diabetic patients. The platform uses artificial intelligence, sensors, the internet of things and digital twin technologies to understand metabolic dysfunction, measure and repair damaged metabolism which is the root cause of diabetes.
Initial Investment Date: 2020
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
CEO: Noory Bechor
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LawGeex is reinventing the way legal departments work by leveraging data analytics and an artificial intelligence-based engine to shorten sales closure times, lower overall legal costs, and enable a centralized standard of legal terms and conditions across enterprises. They offer a combination of machine learning algorithms, text analytics and the knowledge of expert lawyers to deliver in-depth contract reviews efficiently, enabling businesses to save time and money reviewing legal contracts.
Initial Investment Date: 2020
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
CEO: Matan Bar
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Melio brings small business payments into the modern era and aims to be the “Venmo” for small businesses as they rapidly scale their payments platform for facilitating vendor and supplier payments. The company’s platform converts small business paperwork to an easy-to-use digital process that allows users to keep up with their business to focus on their customers, and not their back office.
Initial Investment Date: 2008
HQ: Milpitas, CA
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FireEye (Nasdaq:FEYE) is a cybersecurity firm offering a platform that blends innovative security technologies, nation-state grade threat intelligence, and world-renowned Mandiant consulting firm that offers solutions for networks, endpoints, and email.
Initial Investment Date: 2011
HQ: Chicago, Il
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Grubhub (NYSE:GRUB) is an online and mobile prepared food ordering and delivery platform that connects diners with local restaurants, serving working with 100,000 across the United States.
Initial Investment Date: 2008
HQ: San Francisco, CA
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Yelp (NYSE: YELP) operates in the online content market, providing a web-based platform and mobile application to bridge the gap between businesses and consumers. The platform assists consumers through product reviews, tips, photos and videos thereby enabling them in making better buying decisions and posting their feedback.
Initial Investment Date: 2012
HQ: Mill Valley, CA
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Glassdoor (acquired by Recruit Holdings) operates an online job searching platform designed to help people everywhere to find jobs and companies they love. The company’s job searching platform offers data related to company reviews, salary reports, interview reviews and questions, benefits reviews, office photos and latest job openings, enabling job seekers to apply for their desired profile in a hassle-free way.
Initial Investment Date: 2012
HQ: Redwood City, CA
ARMO Biosciences (acquired by Eli Lilly) is an immuno-oncology company that is developing a pipeline of products that activate the immune system of cancer patients to recognize and eradicate tumors.
Initial Investment Date: 2011
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
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Wix (Nasdaq:WIX) is a cloud-based development platform provider for millions of registered users worldwide. The company is engaged in web development and management that provides an easy-to-use powerful cloud-based platform of products for both novice and tech-savvy users.
Initial Investment Date: 2008
HQ: San Francisco, CA
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One Medical (Nasdaq:ONEM) is a membership-based health care platform. It offers membership-based primary care service with in-person care and online resources, including a mobile app.
Initial Investment Date: 2011
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
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Cloudera (NYSE:CLDR) offers platforms for data management, machine learning, and advanced analytics. The company enables organizations to use vast amounts of data from a variety of sources, including the Internet of Things (IoT), to better serve and market to their customers, design connected products and services and reduce risk through greater insight from data.
