Huffington Post profiles Leslie Jump, Founder and CEO of Startup Angels, former Partner at Sawari Ventures and current advisor at Flat6Labs
Profile of Leslie Jump, Founder and CEO of Startup Angels: Huffington Post’s Anne Ravanona profiles Leslie Jump on her 25-year career in building and investing in startups. Jump was formerly a Partner at Egypt’s Sawari Ventures, where she still serves in an advisory capacity, and is also an advisor at Flat6Labs, in addition to running her own DC-based Startup Angels. “What is your greatest achievement to date? [Jump]: I was fortunate to be part of the leadership team when the commercial internet was launched. It was 1994 and within 10 weeks we were shipping software (the equivalent of Microsoft Outlook). We launched the first e-commerce site and helped ignite the spark of more broad based interest in the Internet, raising collective consciousness to where it is today. We did the first OEM deal for the Netscape browser (with Marc Andreessen) and helped put them on the map.” (Read Trailblazing women: Leslie Jump, Founder & CEO of Startup Angels)