Yasmeena Faycurry
Senior Associate at 645 Ventures
New York, New York
Work Experience
2023
Senior Associate
2024
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.
2022 - 2023
Investor
2022 - 2023
Series Seed, industry agnostic
2020 - 2022
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).
2021 - 2022
Investor
2021 - 2022
Helping back and build the brands of tomorrow. Series A, consumer
2022 - 2022
Venture Cat
2022 - 2022
2018 - 2020
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
2014 - 2019
Everything
2014 - 2019
My dad is a GC, I was his right hand
2018 - 2018
Instructor
2018 - 2018
Taught coding to kids grade 1-8
2017 - 2018
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".