Jeffrey Housenbold

CEO, Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Board Director & CEO Coach

📍 Redwood City, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2021
VC🌍 United States
9
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Investor
Feb 2021
Retailers today face some of the toughest challenges in physical stores — from tracking shopper behavior to optimizing promotions and in-store media. Traditional tools often fall short in delivering real-time, actionable insights. At Standard AI, we solve these challenges by equipping retailers and CPG brands with AI-powered computer vision technology that unlocks real-time insights on promotions, media impact, new product launches, and more. Our VISION platform turns data into actionable insights, helping retailers drive sales, improve store performance, and gain deeper visibility into the shopper journey. Founded in 2017 and backed by leading venture capitalists like Y Combinator, SoftBank, CRV, and EQT Ventures, Standard AI is at the forefront of transforming physical retail with e-commerce level data insights. Partnerships: Google Cloud, AXIS COMMUNICATIONS, and NVIDIA Want to learn more? Visit https://standard.ai or email us at info@standard.ai to see how Standard AI can turn your store into a data-driven powerhouse.
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Oct 2020
Solving problems that sit at a unique intersection of hardware, tech, health, fitness and design.
Investor
Feb 2020
Alto provides an easier, more efficient and more affordable pharmacy experience for patients, providers, and partners. Alto Pharmacy is America’s leading digitally-powered pharmacy, transforming a $500 billion industry. Our full-service, digitally-powered pharmacy makes it simpler for patients to live their healthiest life. Alto Technologies empowers partners with tailored solutions that elevate the patient experience, improve medication access and delivery, and set new industry standards for convenience, cost, and care. Alto combines expert pharmacist care with a technology-led platform to deliver a more convenient and affordable experience for those who need medication.
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May 2019
GetYourGuide is a leading global online marketplace to discover and book experiences worth traveling for. Travelers can use GetYourGuide to find things to do in more than 18,000 cities, including tours from local experts, exclusive access to must-see attractions, as well as immersive bucket-list experiences. More than 50,000 supply partners leverage GetYourGuide’s easy-to-use platform to grow their businesses, offering 200,000 experiences to travelers around the world. If you share our passion for travel and tech, check out our open positions at careers.getyourguide.com or take a look behind the scenes of GetYourGuide on our blog: inside.getyourguide.com. Important notice: Protect yourself from recruitment scams. To ensure your safety during the application process, please be aware of potential scammers impersonating GetYourGuide recruiters. Remember, GetYourGuide will never request your payment or sensitive personal information during recruitment. All official job opportunities are exclusively posted on our Careers page. If you suspect fraudulent activity, report it to jobs@getyourguide.com.
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Feb 2019
We’re on a mission to make people’s lives convenient, so they can experience more of what they love. We aim to consistently provide stress-free and affordable services by investing in exceptional people, smart technology, and pristine spaces. Clutter is a one-stop-shop for all your moving and storage needs. Our state-of-the-art technology enables us to provide the most affordable, flexible, and reliable service nationally. We’ve built an end-to-end logistics and supply chain platform that is disrupting the $60B/year self-storage and moving industries and have raised over $300M from a number of top VCs, including SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Atomico, and GV (Google Ventures). Local Moving Clutter’s professionally trained movers provide you with high-quality moving and packing services. They help you disassemble furniture, pack and load your items safely into a Clutter moving truck. With Clutter’s account portal, you can track the progress of your move, get to know your movers, and see when they have finished your move. We offer flexible moving options, so you can also choose to pack your items yourself to save on cost. Smart Storage On-demand storage service means our professionally trained movers come to you, pack and store your belongings, and return them whenever you want. Our moving experts photograph and categorize each item in your online photo catalog, so you always know what you have in storage and can request any items back with just a click of a button. With a variety of storage options from 5’x5’ to 10’x50’ and flexible storage plans, you can pick the size that is tailored to you. To learn more about Clutter, visit www.clutter.com/linkedin Interested in exploring a career with Clutter? We’re #Hiring! Learn more about our mission, benefits, and open roles at www.clutter.com/careers
Investor & Advisor
Feb 2019
We are building the first mobility based Smart Screens - Smart Cities advertising and data platform that utilizes the ride share and gig economy for distribution and scale. Our unique location-based, “situationally aware” software and 1st party data enables the most granular, audience-based targeting of any away from home medium on any screen type. - We are actively creating private:public partnerships with the cities where we deploy our solutions in order to promote a better quality of life for all residents. - We are dedicated to supporting local businesses with advertising programs to support their unique needs. - We provide our driver-partners the ability to earn significant additional income to enable them to get closer to achieving their personal goals. - We are leading innovators on all digital screen types with a goal to deliver performance and successful outcomes for our customers and partners. Were Hiring!
Investor
Dec 2017
Compass is a real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow. We deliver an incomparable experience to both agents and their clients all in service of the Compass mission: to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012 by Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin, Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara & Montecito, San Diego, Seattle & Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin & Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. Learn more and find your place at www.compass.com and www.compass.com/careers. Compass only reaches out to applicants from a @compass.com domain and does not prompt applicants to download software or files as part of its application process.
mid stageReal Estate
Investor
Jun 2017
OYO is a global platform that aims to empower entrepreneurs and small businesses with hotels and homes by providing full-stack technology products and services that aims to increase revenue and ease operations; bringing easy-to-book, affordable, and trusted accommodation to customers around the world. OYO offers 40+ integrated products and solutions to patrons who operate over 157K hotel and home storefronts in more than 35 countries including India, Europe, and Southeast Asia. OYO was founded by 27-year-old Ritesh Agarwal, the first Asian resident to be accepted to the Thiel Fellowship (started by Paypal founder Peter Thiel). OYO operates a unique business model that helps its patrons transform fragmented, unbranded and underutilized hospitality assets into branded, digitally-enabled storefronts with higher revenue generation potential and provides its customers with access to a broad range of high-quality storefronts at compelling price points. Owners and operators of over 157K storefronts use the OYO platform to manage all mission-critical aspects of their business operations. OYO’s comprehensive, full-stack technology suite integrates more than 40 products and services across digital sign-up and onboarding, revenue management, daily business management and D2C stacks into two flagship patron applications, Co-OYO and OYO OS. OYO customers can book storefronts through OYO’s own D2C channels and through indirect channels with third-party OTAs. The OYO App offers a variety of digital tools to guide customers throughout their journey, including discovery, seamless booking, pre-stay assistance, cancellations, digital check-ins as well as in-stay and post-stay services. With over 100 mn downloads, the OYO App was the 3rd most downloaded travel app in 2020. OYO Wizard, OYO’s loyalty program, has 9.2 million members and is the second largest loyalty program run by a travel or food brand in India, by subscriber base.
Board Advisor & Investor
Sep 2015
Spokin is the easiest way to manage food allergies, bringing resources to food allergic families so they can live the fullest lives possible. Food allergies affects 15 million people and 1 out of 13 children in the United States, and requires 24/7 vigilance. Spokin's mission is to take much of the time and work out of navigating food allergies by doing the work for you. Spokin's app lets parents and teens find top-rated, food allergy-friendly resources such as restaurants, hotels and products around the world, as well as keeps people informed of the latest treatments, research and food recalls. Founder and CEO Susie Hultquist, the mother of a teenage daughter with life-threatening food allergies, co-founded FARE Chicago in 2008 and worked for decades as a professional public equity investor. Spokin, which raised $1.5 million in funding during its first year, has partnered with some of Chicago’s premier organizations including The University of Chicago, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Lurie Children’s Hospital and Outcome Health (formerly ContextMedia).
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The original hamburger of Silicon Valley!
2021
Investor
Feb 2021
Retailers today face some of the toughest challenges in physical stores — from tracking shopper behavior to optimizing promotions and in-store media. Traditional tools often fall short in delivering real-time, actionable insights. At Standard AI, we solve these challenges by equipping retailers and CPG brands with AI-powered computer vision technology that unlocks real-time insights on promotions, media impact, new product launches, and more. Our VISION platform turns data into actionable insights, helping retailers drive sales, improve store performance, and gain deeper visibility into the shopper journey. Founded in 2017 and backed by leading venture capitalists like Y Combinator, SoftBank, CRV, and EQT Ventures, Standard AI is at the forefront of transforming physical retail with e-commerce level data insights. Partnerships: Google Cloud, AXIS COMMUNICATIONS, and NVIDIA Want to learn more? Visit https://standard.ai or email us at info@standard.ai to see how Standard AI can turn your store into a data-driven powerhouse.
2020
Investor
Oct 2020
Solving problems that sit at a unique intersection of hardware, tech, health, fitness and design.
Investor
Feb 2020
Alto provides an easier, more efficient and more affordable pharmacy experience for patients, providers, and partners. Alto Pharmacy is America’s leading digitally-powered pharmacy, transforming a $500 billion industry. Our full-service, digitally-powered pharmacy makes it simpler for patients to live their healthiest life. Alto Technologies empowers partners with tailored solutions that elevate the patient experience, improve medication access and delivery, and set new industry standards for convenience, cost, and care. Alto combines expert pharmacist care with a technology-led platform to deliver a more convenient and affordable experience for those who need medication.
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