Devon Crews

CMO, Investor/Advisor, Board Member, Foundation President

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2013
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Advisor, Investor, Board Member, CMO, Strategist -Venture Capital Firms
2013
The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. The accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year. Over 50% close institutional rounds within 12 months of their Alchemist Demo Day.
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2023
Managing Partner
2023
Accelerating innovation, emerging technologies and entrepreneurs that positively transform communities and the world
2013
Advisor, Investor, Board Member, CMO, Strategist -Venture Capital Firms
2013
The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. The accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year. Over 50% close institutional rounds within 12 months of their Alchemist Demo Day.
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2006
Founding Partner, Head of Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer
2006
Luminesa promotes businesses and ideas with positive impact. For nearly a decade, Luminesa has built well-loved brands, engaged and inspired key audiences, and placed products and services in the limelight using experiential and emerging media. Our team has helped some of the worlds leading companies to get on the news, online, on mobile phones, into conversations and into peoples lives. With seasoned executives in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, Luminesa offers the industry experience and right relationships to support business success.
1998
Vice President of Marketing and Co-Founder (acquired by IPG)
1998
Interpublic (NYSE: IPG) is a values-based, data-fueled, and creatively-driven provider of marketing solutions. Home to some of the world’s best-known and most innovative communications specialists, IPG global brands include Acxiom, Craft, FCB, FutureBrand, Golin, Huge, Initiative, IPG Health, IPG Mediabrands, Jack Morton, KINESSO, MAGNA, McCann, Mediahub, Momentum, MRM, MullenLowe Global, Octagon, R/GA, UM, Weber Shandwick and more. IPG is an S&P 500 company with total revenue of $10.89 billion in 2023.
1993
Senior Director, Digital Communications
1993
From gaining new experiences in different roles to acquiring fresh knowledge and skills – at UBS we believe that you should never stop growing and learning because life never stops teaching. We know that its our people – with their unique backgrounds, skills, experience levels and interests – who drive our ongoing success. Ready to be part of #teamUBS and make an impact? Find out more at ubs.com/careers. UBS works with individuals, families, institutions, and corporations around the world to help answer some of lifes questions – whether through award winning wealth management advisory, investment banking and asset management expertise, or private and corporate banking services in Switzerland*. In June 2023, Credit Suisse became a UBS Group company. With our large and diverse team operating internationally, we have a presence in all major financial centers in more than 50 countries. Although we all come from different backgrounds and specializations, two things unite us: the conviction that we’re stronger together, and the will and curiosity to constantly innovate. That’s the key to us unlocking our full potential (and what we look for in everyone who joins us). It’s also why we’re regularly recognized as an attractive employer.* * Our awards https://www.ubs.com/awards Social Media Legal Terms: http://www.ubs.com/social-legal