Isaiah Kacyvenski
Managing Partner at Will Ventures
Greater Boston
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
2018 - Current
Will Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that leverages the power of sport to change the world. We embrace getting our hands dirty alongside the entrepreneurs we invest in and utilize our network, expertise and experience to add outsized value to sports-centric and adjacent market companies.
Will Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that prefers to invest across the consumer, healthcare, and media markets.
Co-Founder
2016
As the leading sports market research and advisory firm, we are committed to being the objective voice organizing, evaluating, and recommending sports technology products and services. The Sports Innovation Lab evaluates and identifies the technology products and services that will power the future of sports. The Boston-based, market research and advisory firm uses data analysis to reveal compelling stories that mobilize global partnerships among startups, investment capital firms, and corporate influencers. The Lab derives additional insights from a world-class network of international advisors across a wide range of industries and through strong partnerships with leading universities. With a deep focus on the ever-changing world of sports technology and innovation, the Lab showcases what is possible today so its clients move with clarity and confidence into the future. https://www.sportsilab.com/
Innovation Fellow
2018
Executive Board Member
2016
Member of both the Executive Board and the Athlete Advisory Board for the OneTeam Collective, the NFLPA's athlete-driven business accelerator.
Chairman of Sports Advisory Board
2017
http://bioelectronics.northwestern.edu/index.html
Executive Board Member
2018
https://www.uscbodycomputing.org/
National Advisory Board Member
2014
https://www.positivecoach.org/national-advisory-board-1/
Global Head of Business Development
2011 - 2016
Involved in conceptualization, product development, business development, marketing and sales across a broad range of products in Biomedical Research and also Consumer applications--including, but not limited to, Sports, Fitness, Worker Productivity, Sleep, Rehabilitation, Sports Medicine, and Quantifying Disease States--with a focus on wearable technology and/or instrument applications of MC10 technology. Intense focus around multi-modal suite of sensing capability to enable highly accurate physiological data capture outside a controlled setting. Also created and served as the Chairman of the Sports Advisory Board that includes Andrew Luck, Paul Rabil, Kristine Lilly, Angela Ruggiero, Grant Hill, Matt Hasselbeck, Taylor Twellman, Dr. James Andrews, John Thompson III, and Matt Birk.
MC10 develops virtually invisible, conformal electronics that reshape rigid conventional electronics into thin flexible devices.
Raised $117,249,484.00 from Terawatt Ventures, Aberdare Ventures, OUP (Osage University Partners), Medtronic, Mitsui Global Investment, Haiyin Capital, Well Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Marubun Corporation and Windham Venture Partners.
Linebacker
2000 - 2008
Linebacker in National Football League. 3-time Captain of the Seattle Seahawks including the Super Bowl XL team.
NFL is a professional sports league in the U.S. that acts as a trade association for franchise owners to promote the sport and much more.
Raised $5,700,000.00 from Bob Woodruff Foundation.