Jahed Momand
General Partner at Cerulean Ventures. Investing to build the nature
Barcelona, Catalonia
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and General Partner
2021 - Current
Cerulean is investing to create Energy and Nature Markets for planetary-scale regeneration and climate impact. We invest in pre-seed and seed stage open source software companies, blockchain protocols and networks, and B2B SaaS marketplaces and platforms building technologies to scale climate impact in this decade. We’re investing to build the nature- and climate-positive economy, with a focus on climate fintech, blockchain networks and protocols, and digital infrastructure for valuing nature’s ecosystem services, and scaling renewable energy for supply-side decarbonization.
Cerulean Ventures invests in foundational technology to scale climate solutions.
Co-founder, Host
2021
Co-host of the podcast that explores the people and ideas that are utilizing technology, economics, and the law to re-imagine how the economy can work for everyone. Here we connect with the entrepreneurs, investors, thought-leaders, academics, and politicians that are constructing a better economy, one based on broad-based ownership and democratic governance. Hosted by Martin Smith and Jahed Momand, two investors and operators who use the platform to showcase the people and ideas that will shape more inclusive economies. Our yearly summit brings together founders and leaders from impact private equity and VC, crypto, foundations, policymakers, and more to convene on building the future of prosperity through ownership.
Limited Partner
2024
Limited Partner
2024
Investor and Advisor
2014
I help crypto protocols, DAOs, and teams with community engagement, governance design and tokenomics, and product. - Elio (2024) - Anadro (2024) - Meta Pool (2024) -Jokerace (2023) - X2 (2023) - Trust Exchange (2023) - Fence Finance (2023) - Eden Protocol (2023) - Don’t wait to do what you love. - Cheq Labs (2023) - Secure, flexible crypto payments for freelancers. Co-invest with UpFront - ContextDAO (2022) - data standards as public goods. - MintStars (2022) - A subscription-based NFT platform that empowers creators to take control of their content and earnings - Polymer Labs (2022) - universal IBC for all chains with zk proofs - Odsy Network (2022) - multi-party computation appchain - Molecule (2022) - decentralized marketplace enabling sub-billion dollar innovations outside of the pharma-industrial complex to produce IP for those whose needs are not met by the current medical system - Entropy.xyz (2022) - multi-party computation powering trustless and secure crypto decentralized custody for all. Not your keys, not your crypto. - Libation Labs (2022) - making wine an infinite game - Plastiks.io (2021) - building markets around plastic reclamation, connecting the world's largest recyclers with the world's largest plastic waste producers with NFTs - PopcornDAO (2021) - Treasury management for DAOs, with 20%-50% of yield directly funding social impact - The Driver's Cooperative (2021) - Cooperatively-owned transportation network - Acclinate (2021) - Community-first platform for diversifying clinical trial participation - Gumroad (2020) - Gumroad is a powerful, but simple, e-commerce platform. Advisor - Parakweet (BookVibe - acquired by Google) - Savvy Cooperative (2017) - Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT) (2020) - Habitry (2014)
Founding Member
2023
Nature Tech Collective is a non-profit member alliance, accelerator and intelligence unit.
Fractional CPO, Gnosis Guild
2022 - 2023
Developing patterns of organization for all DAOs to adopt, to help accelerate DAO growth and work. Developer advocate and marketing.
Head of Customer Insights - Data Science and ML team
2020 - 2023
• Led a team of mixed methods researchers to define important research questions that drove product development and revenue growth. • Executed pricing research that resulted in ~$8M in net new ARR for the company. • Reduced new research requests by 15% y/y by building a knowledge base and taxonomy for the Research org.
Customer Research Lead
2019 - 2020
Twilio Fund Europe 2013 is a fund dedicated to startups in the UK and Europe (and surrounding countries) making use of the company’s cloud
Advisor
2017 - 2023
VP Product Management & Marketing
2020 - 2022
Product marketing, growth, product operations, and product management for the world's first venture-backed patient-owned co-operative for healthcare insights. We match patients with pharmaceutical and tech companies for user research opportunities. I work with revenue operations to market at the top of the funnel and with the operations team to optimize product ops, and build the platform vision for Savvy.
Co-founder, Chief Product & Marketing Officer
2019 - 2020
Co-founded Magalix with Mohamed Ahmed and Omar Mehilba after joining as an EIR from 500Startups. I drove product as CPO, using a Tensorflow implementation with a team of 6 engineers to train (rapidly) neural networks on enterprise container usage and security patterns, defining the product and testing it from 0 customers through to 100+, and provided teams with feedback on how to optimize for cost, reliability, and security. The company was acquired by WeaveWorks in December 2021. I led the team at implementing and applying naive bayes, k-means, combinations thereof, and even the old school perceptron algorithms to container usage to drive product value with AI. • Led the launch of V1.1 of the DevSecOps product for enterprise teams at Magalix, driving product-market fit. • Built a growth machine that increased qualified site visitors from 100 to 10,000 within 5 months. • Boosted product qualified leads by 500%, resulting in the closing of first upmarket accounts.