Jeffrey Beir

Mentor to disruptive founders; Founding mentor at the Harvard iLab; Snowboard instructor; Former founder, CEO and venture investor.

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 8 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Co-Founder, Mentor and Investor
Mar 2025
AutoPCB automates PCB design through a high level design interface to get from block diagram to routed board faster using AI, ready to order directly or import in your preferred EDA software. Try it at autopcb.app
Mentor, Investor
Sep 2018
Helpful is the leading community enablement platform for distributed organizations. Our platform activates helpfulness and deeper connections for members and managers who believe that their people matter in an era of isolation, disconnection, and superficial relationships.
Mentor, Investor
Mar 2018
Our next-generation engagement and visibility platform equips operations leaders and managers with unprecedented levels of business-changing insights. More than 10,000 QSR locations across the country use the HourWork platform to drive sentiment analysis, employee feedback, and retention insights to make better decisions. Visit www.HourWork.com to learn more about our company, leaders, and culture.
Mentor, Investor
Mar 2018
Our next-generation engagement and visibility platform equips operations leaders and managers with unprecedented levels of business-changing insights. More than 10,000 QSR locations across the country use the HourWork platform to drive sentiment analysis, employee feedback, and retention insights to make better decisions. Visit www.HourWork.com to learn more about our company, leaders, and culture.
Mentor, Investor
Feb 2018
We think education can be way more engaging. We work on fun stuff to make it that way :)
Mentor, Investor
Feb 2018
We're a fast-growing startup founded at Harvard's Innovation Labs. Our big mission is to move the world of work from the Earth 🌎 to the Cloud ☁️. And we're doing it by building virtual spaces that empower teams to crush it from anywhere in the world. SoWork is where your team's work happens. Where they build your culture, get shit done, and become a real team again even across long distances. Move in, build your own custom office, and get better work done, faster.
Mentor, Investor
Sep 2016
Living in apartment buildings can be an isolating experience. Cobu makes it easy for residents to connect with their neighbors and neighborhood, turning apartments into homes. By creating a strong sense of community, Cobu helps leading building owners to increase resident satisfaction and retention.
early stageReal Estate
Mentor, Investor
Sep 2016
Living in apartment buildings can be an isolating experience. Cobu makes it easy for residents to connect with their neighbors and neighborhood, turning apartments into homes. By creating a strong sense of community, Cobu helps leading building owners to increase resident satisfaction and retention.
early stageReal Estate
Experience · 19 entries
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Investments (7)
Founder (5)
2025
Co-Founder, Mentor and Investor
Mar 2025
AutoPCB automates PCB design through a high level design interface to get from block diagram to routed board faster using AI, ready to order directly or import in your preferred EDA software. Try it at autopcb.app
2022
Lead Mentor - Venture Lane Studio
Jun 2022
Venture Lane is Boston’s go-to hub for B2B tech startups featuring a sales focused accelerator program, lively founder slack, and downtown co-working & event space. *Venture Lane | Studio… Traction accelerator transforming B2B software startups into growth stage ventures with repeatable and scalable sales engines. *Venture Lane | Space… State of the art co-working & event space for 50+ B2B tech startups in the heart of Downtown Boston. *Venture Lane | Slack… Highly active community of 2,200+ founders, mentors, and investors in early stage B2B tech.
mid stageReal Estate
2019
place.net
Mentor, co-Founder
Aug 2019
Mentor, co-Founder
Aug 2019
Infinityy is a tool to match your ambition. Our patented collaboration platform provides an open and shared experience. Utilizing existing content, such as 3D tours and multi-media, Infinityy allows people to easily connect, tour, and share properties together in customized Infinityy Rooms. Infinityy connects you with your target audience earlier and faster than traditional marketing, expediting sales, leases, and bookings. With Infinityy, the possibilities are endless.
early stageReal Estate
Managing Partner
Jan 2019
Mentor Foundry works with awesome founders to build promising companies. Mentor Foundry brings a breadth of experience - strategy, product, go-to-market, capital raising and mentorship to help teams navigate the early days and focus on the right things. Mentor Foundry understands the dynamic aspects of startups - attracting the right team, developing milestones, remaining focused, pivoting to find the right initial market, continuous learning, and communicating your opportunity to investors and customers. We exclusively work with talented founders who have confidence, but know what they don't know. Unlike typical advisors and investors, we devote significant time to each of our companies. We will invest, but exclusively after we have built our confidence in the opportunity and alongside investors in an angel, seed or series A round.
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Investment activity
2016–2025 · 8 investments
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