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Vroom

Vroom

We announced on January 22, 2024 that Vroom has halted all purchases and sales of used vehicles. It has been an honor to serve car buyers and sellers all over the country.

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Building https://dimo.zone

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Playwright | Artist | Professor | Boards | Startup GC (former @Etsy, @Vroom)

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Metrics and results driven leader of teams that improve software quality. Experienced manager with hands-on experience developing scalable automation frameworks, integrating performance testing and driving a quality engineering culture.

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Growth Leader | Performance + Product + Partnerships | Unlocking customer growth through creative problem solving and high-impact execution

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Building teams and cultures is my passion. After getting a CS degree, I joined a team of four engineers in 2002, that would become Vast and pave the way for the Silicon Valley modeled Serbian startup scene. We prototyped a search engine that scraped listings across the web for categories like cars, real estate, vacation rentals, jobs, pets, etc, and organised them in searchable verticals. The idea caught the attention of a venture capital fund, and the first round of financing was raised in 2005, with offices being opened in San Francisco and Belgrade. I took over the director duties and grew the team to more than 150 people, while Vast became the AI-powered autos and real estate marketplace leader. Fast forward to 2021, Vroom acquired Vast, and I started building Vroom’s engineering team in Belgrade. I worked through the insides of a public company and learned a lot, but I also felt that my mission was accomplished. At the beginning of 2022, a mutual friend put me in touch with Foursquare’s CEO, Gary Little. I was impressed by FSQ’s technology, drawn to the team’s culture, decided to join the company and start building a world class engineering team in Serbia, which is helping Foursquare become a global leader in geospatial technologies.

Caitlin Selkis (Burr)

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Graduate Student at Fordham University Graduate School of Education

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Elie Wurtman is Managing Partner at PICO Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Jerusalem. He brings three decades of experience as an entrepreneur, executive, and investor and has played an active role in several high-profile startups. Elie’s investments include Vroom (Nasdaq: VRM), Spot.io (acquired by NetApp), Gloat, Zero Networks, and Fullpath. Before founding PICO, Elie was a general partner at Benchmark Capital from 2006 to 2012. Prior to Benchmark, he worked with Jerusalem Venture Partners, where he led early-stage media technology and enterprise software investments. Elie has been an entrepreneur and company-builder throughout his career. He launched his first company in 1993 and took five companies from founding to IPO. As co-founder and CEO of Deltathree, Jerusalem's first unicorn, he led the company to 60 points of presence globally with operations across 35 countries. Elie’s other notable startups include IronSource, where he served as the company’s first external director and an active mentor to the founders. At Vroom, where Elie was a co-founder and lead investor, he also took an active role as Executive Chairman during the company’s inception. Elie is the founder of PICO Kids, a social enterprise focused on STEM education for children in Jerusalem’s diverse communities. He also founded Bat Shlomo Vineyards, a boutique winery in northern Israel, as well as The Farmhouse at Bat Shlomo. Elie is an Aspen Institute Global Leadership Fellow and sits on the boards of the Tower of David Museum, Zikaron BaSalon and Regavim Agricultural School.

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Finance at Smartsheet

Michelle (Morgenbesser) Ryan

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VP of product with 12+ years experience, 7+ years building and managing high performing teams at Series A startups (Teamshares), Fortune 1 (Walmart), and somewhere in the middle (Vroom)