Joshua Taylor

Director

2024 - Current

Philanthropic venture fund investing in founders to close the wealth gap • Spearheaded fundraising and outreach efforts, successfully securing over $100K in committed capital for the nonprofit. • Compiled a targeted list of over 400 prospects, resulting in more than 50 fundraising meetings with executives, middle-level managers, high net worth individuals, and family offices.

Venture Partner

2023

Pre-Seed & Seed stage venture fund investing in Energy / Climate Tech, Fintech / B2B SaaS, Health tech, Spacetech & Sportstech • Evaluated over 10 startups weekly, resulting in funding for two B2B SaaS companies, constituting 50% of the deals done in 2024 • Conducted thorough market research to pinpoint investment opportunities and emerging trends

Co-Founder

2022

Venture Scout

2021 - 2025

Pre-seed & seed-stage VC firm focused on investing in Fintech, AI/ML, and Marketplaces • Sourced over 50 startup companies weekly, exceeding weekly quota by 150%, conducted thorough due diligence and presented comprehensive deal memos • Assessed and analyzed investment opportunities in Fintech, AI/ML, and Marketplaces, collaborating with General Partners and investment teams to make data-driven decisions

Entrepreneur in Residence

2023 - 2023

Incubator focused on social & economic equity through entrepreneurship • Led 9 selected companies through a 12 week accelerator program to understand their customer profiles, go to market strategy, product development and fundraising plans with three companies achieving a venture funding of over $3MM. • Secured 20+ mentors in less than two weeks including venture capitalists, founders and subject matter experts to help the cohort with fundraising, legal, IP, go to market and strategy

Senior Associate

2023 - 2023

Texas focused fund focused on early stage tech companies (seed - Series B) • Drive data-driven decision-making by sourcing, analyzing, and presenting data on potential investments, resulting in negotiating 20 term sheet signed companies (12 B2B SaaS startups) with our finance and ops teams • Deepend investor relationships with over 30 venture capital firms increasing customer leads by 40% year over year. • Built and maintained a wide network of connections, including entrepreneurs, investors, industry experts and limited partners across Texas

Venture Associate

2022 - 2022

VC Scout Network Cohort 1

2021 - 2021

Scout programs create an opportunity for those individuals to expand their networks, build an investing track record, and engage actively in the venture industry. Similar to the rest of the venture industry, scout programs have historically excluded Black individuals. Since scouts provide crucial deal flow and unique perspectives to their firms, the lack of Black representation not only hurts aspiring Black investors, but also venture firms.

Metaverse & NFT Community Growth Manager

2021 - 2021

Web 3 protocol building decentralized commerce • Cold outreached to over 800 crypto/blockchain professionals before breaking receiving a role at Boson on the marketing and growth team • Developed the initial Boson Ambassadors program selecting the top 10 of 500+ startup applicants across the world increasing Boson commerce activity by over 200%

Co-Founder

2016 - 2021

B2B SaaS Start-up connecting community organizers and members • Pitched and connected with over 250 of investors which led to closing $1.3m as a pre-seed round • Built and designed the on-boarding process acquiring over 12 communities and 2,000 users in less than 6 months Acquired over 20,000 application users across 20+ universities in the U.S. in one school year resulting in 1,000 completed transactions, doubling our initial customer acquisition target in that period. • Launched and analyzed 3,500 user surveys, exposing gaps in fundamental consumer understanding, a cultural and behavioral barrier to long-distance ridesharing, and an opportunity to pivot into travel planning.

Financial Analyst- Regional Commercial Banking Office (RCBO)

2015 - 2017

Assist RM in credit analysis, structuring and documentation. Financial statement analysis, projections, pricing analysis and composing underwriting memorandum. Composing new and existing lending deals with exposure up to $1B. On track to attend Credit Management Training Program (CMTP) after 2-3 years in a Regional Commercial Banking Office. (RCBO)

Financial Analyst - Centralized Underwriting

2015 - 2015

Assist RM in credit analysis, structuring and documentation. Financial statement analysis, projections, pricing analysis and composing underwriting memorandum. On track to attend Credit Management Training Program (CMTP) after 2-3 years in a Regional Commercial Banking Office. (RCBO)