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Advisor and Angel Investor
Oct 2023
Chambr is an AI Sales Roleplay and Coaching Platform that helps teams ramp twice as fast, close more deals and build real world selling confidence.
Our AI buyers simulate realistic sales conversations across every stage of the revenue cycle: from cold, warm and discovery to renewals and upsells. Reps can practice safely, receive instant feedback and master the art of persuasion before stepping into real conversations.
With Chambr, Sales and CS teams can:
- Ramp up to 60% faster and onboard new hires in weeks instead of months
- Reduce manager coaching time by 1.5 hours/rep/week
- Increase rep conversion rates by up to 12%
The future of sales enablement isn’t static content anymore. It’s powered by AI and data-driven practice.
🔹 Try our AI bot here: https://chambr.ai/roleplay/jerry
🔹 Book a demo or contact us at alex@chambr.ai
Investor
Sep 2023
Bedrocks software takes syndicated & retail data (Nielsen, IRI, Spins, Whole Foods, etc) and transforms it into dynamic selling stories for consumer product goods (CPG) sales managers. The software gives sales & marketing managers easy to apply data-based selling stories that are fine tuned to do three things - sell more products in to retail, keep customers products in retail and find ways to optimize their categories.
Bedrock’s next generation software platform utilizes machine learning to make faster and smarter recommendations for our customers. We have a broad set of customers ranging from small natural foods companies to multi-national conglomerates.
Bedrock Analytics is a venture-backed high-growth technology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Contact us to schedule a demo.
Board Member
2003
Upwardly Global unleashes the potential of immigrants to secure skill-aligned careers by supporting them and the organizations that serve them with industry-specific coaching and digital training, engages employers in inclusive hiring practices and opening opportunities, and advances policies and narratives that create shared prosperity, foster thriving communities, and promote economic growth.
Today in the U.S., more than two million work-authorized immigrants, refugees, and asylees with professional experience and international degrees are unemployed or underemployed, working survival-wage jobs that leave them and their families struggling to make ends meet.
For over 20 years, Upwardly Global has advanced workforce inclusion for work-authorized immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals by helping them secure skill-aligned jobs to ensure a diverse workforce, build resilient communities, and contribute to a robust U.S. economy.
To date, Upwardly Global has helped 10,000 immigrants, refugees, and asylees obtain thriving-wage jobs that contribute $74 million annually to the U.S. economy. Our goal is to serve 25,000 job seekers in 2025.
Please visit our website for more information on our work, our impact, and how you can get involved.
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2023
Startup Mentor
Nov 2023
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.
Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities.
Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
Advisor and Angel Investor
Oct 2023
Chambr is an AI Sales Roleplay and Coaching Platform that helps teams ramp twice as fast, close more deals and build real world selling confidence.
Our AI buyers simulate realistic sales conversations across every stage of the revenue cycle: from cold, warm and discovery to renewals and upsells. Reps can practice safely, receive instant feedback and master the art of persuasion before stepping into real conversations.
With Chambr, Sales and CS teams can:
- Ramp up to 60% faster and onboard new hires in weeks instead of months
- Reduce manager coaching time by 1.5 hours/rep/week
- Increase rep conversion rates by up to 12%
The future of sales enablement isn’t static content anymore. It’s powered by AI and data-driven practice.
🔹 Try our AI bot here: https://chambr.ai/roleplay/jerry
🔹 Book a demo or contact us at alex@chambr.ai
Investor
Sep 2023
Bedrocks software takes syndicated & retail data (Nielsen, IRI, Spins, Whole Foods, etc) and transforms it into dynamic selling stories for consumer product goods (CPG) sales managers. The software gives sales & marketing managers easy to apply data-based selling stories that are fine tuned to do three things - sell more products in to retail, keep customers products in retail and find ways to optimize their categories.
Bedrock’s next generation software platform utilizes machine learning to make faster and smarter recommendations for our customers. We have a broad set of customers ranging from small natural foods companies to multi-national conglomerates.
Bedrock Analytics is a venture-backed high-growth technology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Contact us to schedule a demo.
Founder
Jun 2023
IQ Accelerate was founded by Silicon Valley veteran Iliana Quinonez to combine a love of technology with a passion for helping people in the industry. IQ Accelerate provides startup advising, executive and career coaching services for organizations and professionals in the high tech industry.
Our founder is an IT Executive and Certified Executive Coach with more than 25 years of experience working in the high-tech industry around the world.
Her experience includes leadership roles and coaching and mentoring practice in Business Strategy, Solutions Engineering, Business Development, Sales, Product Management, Consulting and Career Development. She has worked at Enterprise Software companies and startups including Salesforce, SAP, BEA systems, and Informix Software. Her startup experience includes successful IPOs as well as companies pivoting and changing paths. All of her experience yields the insights and empathy she uses to advise and coach startup founders, early-stage teams and high-tech professionals.
Strategic Startup Advisor
Apr 2023
ICA Fund’s impact investing practice creates pathways for businesses to grow through active partnership, personalized advising, and flexible capital. Our approach catalyzes value that mainstream finance misses. In turn, these businesses create more vibrant, resilient communities with local jobs and shared wealth.
ICA Fund is building the future of investing and proving that backing overlooked entrepreneurs delivers both social and financial returns. Join us.
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