Jason Kraus

Investor mentor helping ventures prepare for pitching at the JPM Bio Conference

Managed sponsorships and financing for 3 Startup Weekend Boston events and supporting our team in facilitating events that brought 500+ entrepreneurs, builders and designers together to form over 70 new ventures across the events

PowerUp is a strategic and financial planning program aimed at seed-level female-led ventures which are generating revenues. It combines an immersive 4.5-day bootcamp with seven quarterly one-day follow-up meetings to ensure ongoing and consistent support for the length of time it takes to raise the next round. The bootcamp integrates curated instruction and individually tailored consulting sessions with seasoned entrepreneurs and industry practitioners. Our purpose is to bridge the gender funding gap by reducing execution risk and accelerating the flow of capital into female-led ventures worldwide. We achieve it by: Reducing execution risk with the help of our program which addresses a key expertise gap in strategic and financial planning for ventures ready to scale; Making performance data easily available by consistent and transparent monitoring and reporting of results, Creating a global PowerUp Ambassadors’ network, which includes entrepreneurs, executives, investors, startup advi

Led sessions on ideation, prototyping and go to market strategy for the virtual portion of the Trep Camp program with entrepreneurs across Latin American.

Preparing startups for the final presentations during the Blockbeam Gateway to Blockchain and Gateway to Algorand cohorts