How to Navigate Your Career in Venture with NextGen & Headline
Join NextGen, Harmonic & Headline for an evening fireside chat and happy hour delving into how to navigate your career in venture with Headline's General Partner, Jett Fein.
About Jett Fein
Jett is a General Partner at Headline, where he invests in consumer internet and software businesses globally.
Jett joined Headline in 2014. During his tenure, he has worked from both the Berlin and San Francisco offices, bringing a global perspective to investing. Jett drove early investments in breakout technology companies including Gopuff, Honeycomb.io, Elemy, GRIN, Shopmonkey, Playbook, Avoma, Trellis Research, Air, and numerous others.
Prior to joining Headline, Jett spent time at Cambridge Associates, Palantir Technologies, and Fung Capital. Jett graduated from Stanford University where he was a recipient of the J.E. Wallace Sterling award, and he received a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
About NextGen
NextGen Partners' mission is to facilitate professional development, knowledge sharing and network strengthening of emerging venture capital investors as they build their careers. Founded in 2001, NextGen Partners has a membership base of over 3500 pre-partner professionals representing over 200 firms
About Harmonic
Harmonic is on mission to make the startup universe discoverable. Today, Harmonic.ai is used by hundreds of VC’s like a16z, Greylock, and Google Ventures as well as GTM teams like Retool, Notion, Brex, and Superhuman to connect startups with the capital and resources that they need to drive growth. Our team is backed by top-tier investors like Craft, Sozo, Floodgate, SOMA, Teamworthy, AVG and many others.
About Headline
Headline is a data-driven VC firm with teams on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across stages and sectors, from consumer and fintech, to infrastructure and software, leveraging 25 years of investing experience. Our Early Stage Funds based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil back Early Stage companies locally, while our Venture Growth Fund invests globally from Series B and beyond. This allows us to see local trends up close, partner with winning founders, and lead rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to help them win, bigger. A selection of current and former Headline companies include Acorns, Angi, AppFolio, Bumble, Creditas, Farfetch, Fetch, Gopuff, Honeycomb, NGINX, Pismo, Raisin, The RealReal, Scopely, Segment, SEMrush, Sonos, and Staffbase.
** Please note, this event is in the Presidio, not FiDi. If you are driving or taking rideshare (Uber/Lyft), please ensure you set your destination to Presidio (zip code is 94129). Our office is right above the restaurant Dalida, which is another option for you to route to on your rideshare app.
** By registering, you acknowledge that photography and videography will be produced at the event, which may be distributed and shared on social media at our discretion (no names will be publicly shown). Please reach out should you have any questions!