Javaughn Lawrence

Javaughn joined the team with an interest in early-stage investing and in the incredible potential of AI as a general purpose technology. He enjoys talking to passionate founders and diving deep into new industries. A proud immigrant of Jamaica, Javaughn moved to Miami at the age of 10. He studied Economics at Yale and spent all his free time out of the classroom tinkering with different ideas. He helped raise a seed-round for thevinelist.com, an e-commerce platform for emerging markets and supported efforts of an entrepreneurship and geopolitics media platform called The New Discussion. Since, he has worked at LinkedIn, as a Strategy & Operations Associate where he helped to drive operational efficiency and growth strategy in the Global Accounts segment (~$300M) of Linkedin's Talent Solutions business. While at Linkedin, he co-founded the Bots and AI to explore his interest in conversational UI and AI, helping to grow it to a 1200 person meet-up. Prior to that, he was a consultant at Bain & Company working with clients in the Retail, Telecom, CPG and Defense & Security.