James Cross

CEO at Tenor: The AI for Workforce Effectiveness | Ex-Workday

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 3 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2019
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Sep 2019
Demographic targeting is broken. Truthset makes targeting work by scoring the world’s data. Put the highest scoring data to work and stop sending your ads to the wrong people. As a data intelligence company, Truthset is focused exclusively on validating the accuracy and compliance of consumer data. We help our enterprise clients build trust in data, and improve the performance of any data-driven decision.
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May 2019
Career Karma is backed by the world’s top investors like YCombinator, Top Tier Ventures, Initialized Capital, Softbank, Google Ventures and Kapor Capital (to name a few), and just raised $40 million in Series B funding! Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. We help over 2.5 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching.
Investor
Apr 2019
Coursedog is the Integrated Academic Operations Platform. Empowering academic administrators to support on-time completions and operational excellence with integrated academic and event scheduling, course demand projections, curriculum management, and online catalog solutions through a single, bi-directional integration with your SIS.
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2024
Co-Founder
Apr 2024
Tenor is the AI for leadership development. Were on a mission to make every manager more effective, at the worlds best companies.
2023
Founder
Jul 2023
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Future Founder at Menlo Labs
Jul 2023
Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that strives to have a positive impact on everything we do. That’s why we support businesses—including Abnormal Security, Benchling, Carta, Chime, Harness, Pinecone, Roku, Rover, Siri, and Uber—that are reimagining life and work for the better. Over 47 years, we’ve grown a portfolio that includes more than 80 public companies, over 165 mergers and acquisitions, and $5.8 billion under management. We invest at every stage and in every sector, with expertise in consumer, enterprise, and healthcare. From developing market strategies to creating communities, we provide real impact where entrepreneurs need it most. When we’re in, we’re ALL IN.
2020
Wrangler / Venture Scout
Nov 2020
Cowboy Ventures is a seed-focused venture capital firm dedicated to supporting extraordinary founders building legendary technology companies. Were based in Palo Alto, CA, and invest across the United States.
2019
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Sep 2019
Demographic targeting is broken. Truthset makes targeting work by scoring the world’s data. Put the highest scoring data to work and stop sending your ads to the wrong people. As a data intelligence company, Truthset is focused exclusively on validating the accuracy and compliance of consumer data. We help our enterprise clients build trust in data, and improve the performance of any data-driven decision.
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