Jennifer Webb, an investment director at corporate venturing unit Swisscom Ventures, brings 13 years of experience as a venture investor, board member and strategy consultant to help founding teams.
“It is a privilege to be included in each and every fundraising conversation we have. My ‘superpower’ is grit,” she says on LinkedIn.
The Swiss telecommunications firm, Swisscom, launched the unit in 2007 and it has since backed more than 70 companies across IT, digital media and telecoms sectors and scored 30 exits.
“I would love to see more diversity among VCs and startup teams and am always on the lookout for ways I can contribute.”
The evergreen fund has offices in Silicon Valley and Switzerland and looks for opportunities in other strategic areas, such as cloud computing, deeptech, cybersecurity and fintech.
Swisscom Ventures hired Webb in mid-2021 and tasked her with seed and growth-stage sustainability technology companies based in Switzerland, the rest of Europe, the US and Israel. She manages Swisscom’s Venture Initiative Sustainability, an ESG-focused fund sponsored by the Swisscom CEO, in addition to investments in Swisscom Ventures’ main fund, DTF.
Most recently, Webb led Swisscom Ventures’ participation in renewable energy management platform Pexapark’s €20m series C round in September 2023 and sits on its board.
Increasing diversity in the venture capital sector is one of her interests. In her LinkedIn profile, she says: “I would love to see more diversity among VCs and startup teams and am always on the lookout for ways I can contribute.”
Webb worked at venture capital firm Capitalex as an investment partner for a year from 2020. Before that, she worked at private equity firm LGT Lightrock for five years, investing out of its sustainable technology fund.
She began her career in strategy consulting at Monitor Deloitte in London and is an active angel investor.
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