Julia Ognieva, founder of social network operator Facebook’s first in-house startup initiative, has joined financial services platform Intuit to manage external partnerships for its Quickbooks application.
Ognieva said: “I will be focused on few deep integrations with the Quickbooks platform, to solve for small businesses and self-employed customers of Quickbooks.”
The move comes after Ognieva spent more than five years as a strategic product partnerships, platform and augmented reality executive for Facebook, setting up LDN_LAB in November 2018 as an in-house startup programme at the company’s UK office.
The first LDN_LAB supported seven startups that intend to utilise deep technology, such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, machine learning, natural language processing, to impact society positively.
The seven participants in question were Synthesised, Sereley, Vault, Curvestone, Hello Lamp Post, Eastine and CoGrammar. LDN_LAB is now led at Facebook by Vicky Gibbons.
