Ben Taft

Building Genius

📍 Los Angeles, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United States
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Founding Investor
2021
Way is unlocking the power of experiences for brands with its all-in-one experiential platform. From highly bespoke curated experiences to one-time brand activations and recurring experiential resources, Way integrates the management of these diverse offerings into a singular technology, eliminating the need for excess third-party platforms that fragment the customers journey. Launch and scale brand-defining experiences today and elevate how people interact with your brand.
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Jan 2020
Elevated digital experiences
Founding Investor
2020
Keeper has everything firms need to communicate with clients, catch coding errors, manage receipts, and streamline their workflows -- all in one place. Powered by a 2-way sync with QuickBooks Online and Xero, Keeper connects to clients ledger files and cuts down time spent completing the month-end close by 50%.
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Nov 2018
Our mission is to humanize the internet. Since our launch in 2018, Emotive has created the category of human-to-human marketing, enabling eCommerce merchants to scale 1:1 relationships with customers through conversational texting. We’re extraordinarily proud of the company we’ve built. We’re a driven, passionate, responsible group that values personal and professional growth equally. We take care of ourselves, our families, our customers, and one another. We believe in sustainable and diverse approaches to work and life, because optimizing for the long-term is the best path to success. Our company is distributed, with remote team members worldwide and headquarters in Los Angeles. We offer competitive salaries, meaningful equity, and generous benefits. And you get to work on a product people absolutely love!
Experience · 12 entries
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2024
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2024
With a visionary gift from entrepreneurs Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young, the University of Southern California established an academy to nurture unbridled creativity at the intersection of four essential areas: art and design; engineering and computer science; business and venture management; and communication. The focus of Iovine and Young Academy is on creativity and critical thinking, as empowered by the languages and methodologies of the arts, technology and business. It draws on the talents and influence of faculty and leaders from multiple disciplines and industries to empower the next generation of disruptors and professional thought leaders who will apply their skills in a global arena. Students who complete the undergraduate course of study in the Academy will graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation, and possess an unprecedented combination of knowledge and skill. Crafted via a unique and groundbreaking integration of its core disciplines, the degree facilitates each individuals ability to engage differently and successfully with a dramatically changing, tech-driven global marketplace, and to address some of the worlds most intractable problems.
2023
Founder & CEO
Jul 2023
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Co-Founder
Jul 2023
Changing the way we experience music.
2022
Founder
2022
Enabling the next million companies
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