#55: Jeep Kline, MrPink VC - Impact Investing and Social Change Across The Globe from Latin America to South-East Asia

Jeep Kline is a seasoned venture capitalist, a senior executive at Intel and pre-IPO technology companies, a World Bank economist, and a faculty at UC Berkeley with more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry. Her multi-industry career paths are threaded together in one big theme: global impact. She believes that “financial returns are necessary but not sufficient; impact returns are also required”. This has been the guiding principle of her career that yields positive results across multiple industries and economies.

As a venture investor, Ms. Kline co-founded a venture capital fund investing in early-stage technology companies in Latin America where she remains a Founding Partner. Previously, she was an Operating Partner at a venture fund investing in 60+ early-stage high-growth companies across U.S. and Canada. Some of the portfolio companies include SpaceX (unicorn), AirBnB (IPO), Lyft (IPO), and You.com (pre-IPO). Recently, she founded SeaSky Lab, an organization that brings knowledge and resources from Silicon Valley to Asia for tech entrepreneurs.

As an operating executive, Ms. Kline is the current President of AHEAD Medicine – a life science company using machine learning for cell analysis – holding 6 global IPs. Prior to AHEAD Medicine, she was a senior executive at Intel Corp., where she pioneered, launched, and scaled the company’s first Android-based tablet device globally. Ms. Kline was also an economist at The World Bank Group, where she supported Ministries of Finance in emerging markets to implement technology development projects in South America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.

Ms. Kline is one of the first Thai women selected to lecture a popular MBA course Impact Venture Capital Investing – Sustainable & Impact Finance Curriculum – at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She also serves Berkeley Skydeck, a top accelerator program, as an investor and Global Ambassador to 48 countries in the Asia- Pacific region. Her board work includes AHEAD Medicine (biotech), The Circulate Initiative by Circulate Capital (climate tech), Dietz Co. (health-tech), and Intel Alumni Network (global tech executives). She is also an advisor to selected founders/CEOs at The Alchemist Accelerator and UCSF Health Hub Incubation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Read more about MrPink VC here https://mrpink.vc/ and Seaskylab here https://www.seaskylab.com/ or connect with them on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/company/mrpink-vc/ and here https://www.linkedin.com/company/seaskylab/. You can connect directly with Jeep on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeepkline/.

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