Derek Pando

Product Marketing at Samsara

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2023
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Jun 2023
The NC Tweener Fund, Powered by NC IDEA is focused on building an index of early-stage, high-tech, startups in North Carolina that meet the "Tweener" criteria. Tweeners are: o $1m ARR or o 10 people o HQd in North Carolina o No bigger than $80m ARR
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2023
Investor
Jun 2023
The NC Tweener Fund, Powered by NC IDEA is focused on building an index of early-stage, high-tech, startups in North Carolina that meet the "Tweener" criteria. Tweeners are: o $1m ARR or o 10 people o HQd in North Carolina o No bigger than $80m ARR
2022
Founder/Advisor
May 2022
Our mission is to use technology to help kids spend LESS time on technology. We do that by giving teachers, caregivers and parents unlimited options for educational and fun printable worksheets, activities and crafts. Our resources are made by software automation, AI and talented creators.
2020
Head of International Marketing, Partner Marketing & Localization
Oct 2020
Bring teams together, reimagine workspaces, engage new audiences, and delight your customers –– all on the Zoom AI-first work platform you know and love. 💙 Zoomies help people stay connected so they can get more done together. We set out on a mission to make video communications frictionless and secure by building the world’s best video product for the enterprise, but we didn’t stop there. With products like AI Companion, Team Chat, Contact Center, Phone, Events, Rooms, Webinar, Contact Center and more, we bring innovation to a wide variety of customers, from the conference room to the classroom, from doctor’s offices to financial institutions to government agencies, from global brands to small businesses. We do what we do because of our core value of Care: care for our community, our customers, our company, our teammates, and ourselves. Our global employees help our customers meet happier, communicate better, and create meaningful connections the world over. Zoomies are problem-solvers and self-starters, working hard to get results and moving quickly to design solutions with our customers and users in mind. Here, youll find room to grow with opportunities to stretch your skills and advance your career in a collaborative, growth-focused environment. Learn more about careers at Zoom by visiting our careers site: https://careers.zoom.us/home
2013
Executive Director External Relations
Apr 2013
Founded in 2005, BYU Cougar Capital is a $6M student-run venture capital and private equity fund run by second-year MBA students in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. The fund works directly with venture capital and private equity firms to source deals and conduct due diligence. Through these partnerships, BYU Cougar Capital co-invests as part of a syndicate in deals that are flexible in stage, industry, and geography. Partner firms provide ongoing clinical learning opportunities and mentoring that has helped the program successfully place students into venture capital, private equity, investment banking, and award-winning entrepreneurial startups. In 2010, Forbes Magazine designated BYU Cougar Capital as one of the most innovative business classes in America.