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Yasmeena Faycurry

Senior Associate at 645 Ventures

New York, New York

Overview 

Yasmeena Faycurry is a Senior Associate at 645 Ventures in New York, with a background in entrepreneurship and venture capital. She has held key roles at notable firms like Chicago Ventures and founded her own company, Unfound, showcasing her leadership and strategic investment skills. Faycurry's career highlights include founding and leading Unfound as CEO and serving in key investment roles at prominent venture capital firms, demonstrating a strong track record in identifying and supporting innovative startups.

Work Experience 

  • Senior Associate

    2024 - Current

  • Associate

    2023 - 2024

    645 Ventures is an early-stage investment firm with over $550M AUM. We look to partner with founders at the Seed and Series A stages.

645 Ventures partners with exceptional founders at Seed and Series A to build iconic companies that scale to the growth stage.

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

    Series Seed, industry agnostic

  • Founder and CEO

    2020 - 2022

    Built and led a passionate team to develop Unfound - a community where people shared their favorite local gems. ***A little over a year after launching, Unfound amassed 20k+ app users and 130k+ TikTok followers (completely bootstrapped).

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

    Helping back and build the brands of tomorrow. Series A, consumer

  • Venture Cat

    2022 - 2022

  • Wildfire Accelerator

    2020 - 2020

    Was one of ten startups selected to participate in Northwestern's pre-accelerator. Received $10,000 in non-equity funding and spent the summer managing a team of five. Together we produced and tested an app version of our previous beta and launched a guerrilla-style marketing campaign across Chicago.

  • Propel

    2019 - 2020

    Was invited to co-lead the Propel program. Together we selected the top female entrepreneurs at NU and cultivated a community in which we could all learn and grow from each other. We organized several hit events with notable female entrepreneur speakers and ended the year with a virtual showcase.

  • Student Aide

    2018 - 2020

  • Everything

    2014 - 2019

    My dad is a GC, I was his right hand

  • Instructor

    2018 - 2018

    Taught coding to kids grade 1-8

  • Founder and President @ JCP

    2017 - 2018

    Taught both my own entrepreneurial curriculum and Launch X's curriculum to 15 high school students, started and guided three startups, competed in LaunchX’s Midwest pitch competition and won all three awards given - including "Best Startup".

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