MENtors that Make A Difference

Published: Feb. 21, 2023, 3 p.m.

b"Jennifer Didier sits down with co-founder of Kumospace Brett Martin.\\xa0 Listen to their conversation about the changes that are available in the digital work space. (Virtual Office)\\nBrett Martin Bio:\\nI am an entrepreneur, angel investor, pragmatist, and optimist. Having spent most of my career in the startup trenches, I now focus on supporting other entrepreneurs as Managing Partner of a small seed-stage venture fund: Charge Ventures. Charge is a NYC-based pre-seed/seed stage venture fund. We invest 200-500k at the earliest stages of company formation and then help founders take things from 0 to 1.When not working directly with startups, I spread the startup gospel as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. My teaching focuses on product strategy and entrepreneurial finance but also have a few war stories to tell, having co-founded Switch, a mobile job discovery application, and Sonar, a location-based social network. I began my career on Wall Street as an equity research associate.In my spare time, I've been fortunate enough to write for Harvard Business review, launch a little website called Vice, found a rock band, and sail thousands of miles on a 30ft sailboat.\\nBrett\\u2019s Profile\\nlinkedin.com/in/brettlucasmartin\\nTwitter\\nbrett1211"