JH

Josh Hoffman-senn

Founder and Investor

Greater Boston

Work Experience

2023

  • Business Development

    2024

  • Business & Corporate Development

    2023 - 2024

  • Co-Founder, General Partner

    2018

    The MBA Fund is a venture capital firm that has invested in 150+ companies over the past 7 years. Our core fund backs seed stage founders. We have also participated in a variety of expansion stage transactions (series A/B/C). Select investments: • Unicorns and half-unicorns ($1B+): Jeeves, Dandy, TRM Labs, Hightouch • Rising market leaders (e.g. $100M+): Blissway, Foodology, Flutterflow, Luxury Presence, Legacy, Pair Eyewear, Peachy Patients, Seso, User Interviews • Exits: AccessBell (Tata), Burrow (Havenly), DataFleets (LiveRamp), Dashworks (Hubspot), Portabl (Prove), Sleek (Snackpass), wagr (Yahoo)

2020 - 2024

  • Co-Founder & Co-CEO (Acquired by KHS America)

    2020 - 2024

    Acquired by KHS America: https://www.lsplatform.io/ Lesson Squad provides vertical SaaS solutions for specialty brands. With our technology, companies can create highly engaging experiences that generate actionable consumer data. Customers include top brands such as Hohner, Mapex, Drum Channel, and Nashville Briefing.

2014 - 2019

  • Co-Founder (acquired by Pursuant)

    2014 - 2019

    Acquired by Pursuant and rebranded as the GivingDNA: https://www.givingdna.com/ Causemo provided a vertical SaaS solution focused on cause-based fundraising. The company was acquired by Pursuant, a leading fundraising, marketing and data intelligence company. Our core product enriched a company's consumer database with additional attributes, visualized the data, and generated actionable insights.

  • Owner

    2013 - 2019

    Consulted for startups (i.e. formation to series A stage) and large enterprise clients (e.g. Unity) in areas such as sales operations, go-to-market strategy, company formation and raising capital. Also created and launched minimum viable products for several technology businesses.

2018 - 2018

  • Summer Associate (VC)

    2018 - 2018

2012 - 2012

  • Product Management Summer Analyst

    2012 - 2012

2011 - 2011

  • Investment Banking Summer Analyst

    2011 - 2011

2010 - 2010

  • Research Assistant - Chemical Systems

    2010 - 2010

    Nonlinear Dynamics Group: https://sites.google.com/brandeis.edu/epstein-group/home?authuser=0