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Neal Shenoy
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CEO & Co-Founder
New York, United States
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CEO & Co-FounderBeginJan 2012 - Current (14 years 6 months)Neal is CEO & Co-Founder of Begin. Begin’s mission is to provide children the best educational start possible. Neal manages Begin’s purpose and vision, sets its strategic plan, recruits talent and manages its relationships with investors and partners. Begin is a market leader in the fast growing early learning segment of ed tech: top 5 in the world as measured by revenues and subscribers. Early childhood is the most critical segment of learning: 85% of a child's cognitive development occurs before age 5, yet 98% of spending occurs after age 5. Begin has a proprietary, proven early learning system that prepares children 0 - 10 for school and life through digital apps, tangible kits, classes, and tutoring under the Learn with Sesame- MFounding PartnerMEDIA founding platform for Saavn LeagueApps Begin and LiftMetrixMar 2004 - Current (22 years 4 months)Neal is Founding Partner of [212]MEDIA which builds consumer media ventures in fragmented markets alongside major media companies. In addition to Begin, which Neal currently operates as CEO & Co-Founder, Neal co-founded each of the [212]MEDIA portfolio companies including Saavn (acquired by Reliance Jio), LiftMetrix (acquired by Hootsuite), and LeagueApps. (acquired by Accel-KKR) which have a collective enterprise value of $3BN+. As Founding Partner, Neal identifies new venture opportunities, invests firm capital, sets corporate strategy, develops business and operating plans, hires management teams, manages day-to-day operations across all business units, identifies and structures corporate partnerships and strategic alliances, engages
- SPresident & Co-FounderSimileSep 1999 - Mar 2003 (3 years 7 months)Neal was the President & Co-Founder of Simile, a venture and strategically backed SaaS company focused on unstructured data management for the enterprise publishing companies. Neal founded the company, developed product strategy, recruited the management team, negotiated strategic partnerships and alliances, raised angel, strategic and venture capital, was responsible for day-to-day management and lead the sale of the company.
- DInvestment Banking AnalystDonaldson Lufkin JenretteSep 1997 - Aug 1999 (2 years)Neal was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Leverage Finance Group of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he spent his time supporting DLJ's Senior Debt Fund, Merchant Bank and advisory clients. Neal was responsible for financial analysis, financial modeling, valuation analysis, private placement memorandum drafting, term sheet drafting, term sheet and document negotiation across both principal and agency transactions in media & entertainment.
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- BSFS, International Relations, International Economics, Asian StudiesGeorgetown UniversityJan 1993 - Dec 1997 (5 years)