GenAI and the New Consumer Internet: Collaborative, Curated and Creative | NEA
Talks about Generative AI, Consumer Internet and AI in creativity
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Jonathan Golden
Partner at New Enterprise Associates
San Francisco, California
Overview
Jonathan Golden is a Partner at NEA, having previously served as a Product Executive at Airbnb. He has a strong track record of successful investments in companies like Ledgy and Bowery Farming, and his career highlights include leadership roles at top tech companies like Dropbox and HubSpot.
With an MBA from Stanford University and experience at Goldman Sachs, Jonathan Golden brings a wealth of expertise to his current role at NEA, where he focuses on investing in early-stage companies in sectors such as Marketplaces, SaaS, and Consumer Internet in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Work Experience
Investor - Series A
2023 - Current
Perplexity is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.
Raised $165,000,000.00 from IVP, Wayra and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Board Member
2022
Gain real-time control over your finance operations: real-time insights, automated operations, no R&D
Raised $9,000,000.00 from Jonathan Weiner, Tomer Michaeli, FJ Labs, Ziv Paz, Ron Zori, Yuval Tal, New Enterprise Associates, Vertex Ventures, Philippe Suchet and Eynat Guez.
Investor - Seed
2022
Board Member
2021
Board Observer
2020
The first open source 3D Metal Printer
Angel Investor
2011
Angel investor and advisor to BigHat Biosciences, Bridge.xyz, Coinbase, Delphi.ai, Docsend, Funding Circle, Fathom Heath, Hipcamp, Opensea, Onyx, Pylon, Synch, Wonderschool and several other endeavors.
Board Member
2022 - 2024
Partner
2018 - 2024
Focus on leading Seed and Series A investments in B2B software, API infrastructure and verticalized AI. Companies I work with: - Courtyard.io - Ledge (board) - Ledgy (board) - Metabase (board) - MoonPay - Narmi - Patreon (board) - Perplexity
New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in technology and healthcare startups.
Director of Product
2011 - 2017
First Product Manger becoming Director of Product (Exec Team) leading Payments, Monetization and Business Travel. Previously led International Products and Host Products. Created Host Guarantee and Host Protection Insurance.
Lake Swan Properties is a holiday home rental company.
Product Manager
2010 - 2010
PM for Dropbox for Business, summer
Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Raised $1,709,215,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, RBC Capital, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Partners.
Education
Investments
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