Beth Turner
UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency) at USA for UNHCR
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner - Seed
2017 - Current
Early investor in and partner to companies like OpenAI, Airbnb, DoorDash, ElevenLabs, Anthropic, Mistral, Skild AI, Character, Databricks, Hugging Face, Replit, Replicate, Together AI, Harvey, Captions, Anduril, Github, Flatiron Health, Benchling, Color, Stripe, Cedar, Slack, Dropbox, Coinbase, and Square.
SVA is a venture fund that supports entrepreneurs in building lasting companies.
Board Of Directors, USA for UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency)
2021
Co-founder and Chair of the Humanitarian Coalition
2018
The Humanitarian Coalition is comprised of next generation philanthropists and business leaders who are working to further USA for UNHCR’s mission by helping raise funds and awareness.
USA for Unhcr is a non-profit organization that fixates on community welfare with refugees, fundraising and charity services.
Angel Investor
2010
OpenAI, Resilience, Curie.bio, AtoB, Clover Health (NASDAQ: CLOV), Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN), Flatiron Health (acq. by Roche), Lucky Sort (acq. by Twitter), Golden Auctions, Workrise, Petal (acq. Empower Finance), Goody, Firstbase, Cal.com, Houm, RAVN, Koala
Managing Director
2013 - 2018
Focused on seed stage funding and investment management.
Head of Operations and Business Development
2012 - 2018
The Pangea Network is an international non-profit organization with a mission of empowering women and youth around the world. Operational areas include Kenya, Middle East, and the USA. Hired to help improve operations in micro-lending and empowerment programs, gain an increase in funding, and expand programs working with women and youth in the USA and Kenya. Major accomplishments have been the creation of the Young Women’s Leadership Challenge program for high school girls interested in global issues, entrepreneurship and STEM programs. Over 1000 young women, primarily from underserved communities, have participated in YWLC. Similarly, led planning for 3 large-scale fundraising galas.
PM / Data Scientist (Early Employee)
2011 - 2012
An early employee working between data science and campaign management. Adaptly’s single sign-on experience provides on-demand access to cross-platform campaign data within a single proprietary technology. Users can easily toggle between various ad accounts and platforms for quick insights into their entire paid media budget in real-time.
Business Development
2011 - 2012
Acquired by Mexichem. Led an internal work review and strategic planning initiative with CFO/CEO on how to increase and optimize interactions between international financing and funding institutions for smart-drip irrigation systems.
MIT's Theoretical Physics Laboratory
2009 - 2011
Studied rare earth elements and their usage in clean energy technologies (i.e. wind, solar, nuclear). Researched the possible limitations the global supply and trade of such rare earth elements could pose on the success of emerging sustainable energy technologies.
Researcher
2004 - 2006
Worked on Virtual Interactive Anatomy integrating software -data collected was used by the spacesuit design team. Leader on an 8-person design team brainstorming and modeling the new Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV).
Geophysical Analyst
2005 - 2006
Analyzed geologic and well log data, used geophysical computer modeling, helped with investor presentations.