Jory Des Jardins has invested over 20 years into launching, building, and scaling disruptive media, digital communities, and emerging tech companies. Today, she serves as an advisor and fractional executive to startups developing and executing go-to-market, growth, and exit strategies. Jory pioneered social marketing as Co-Founder and President and Head of Strategic Alliances at BlogHer, a 100M MAU media marketplace representing a community of thousands of digital influencers and creators. She was the primary evangelist of social influence to agencies and brands and grew strategic partnerships with top advertisers and channel partners. Later, she opened new revenue channels as SVP Global Strategic Alliances at acquiring company SheKnows Media (now She Media) and scaled the marketing organizations, and the developer, founder, and customer communities for Ethereum venture studio ConsenSys and AWS Startups. As an investor and advisor, Jory is passionate about making capital funding and business building resources available to talented, underrepresented founders. She has advised dozens of startups, developing the strategy, partnerships, tools, positioning and teams necessary to scale marketplaces, digital communities, "democratizing" platforms, and Web3 companies. She was a VC in Residence and LP at W Fund, a fund for underrepresented founders building democratizing platforms. Currently she advises Web3 Creator marketplace Amberfi, women’s personal and professional wellness platform TheJuggl, royalty-free music sampling marketplace SoundWare,, recruiting platform for underrepresented executives AboveBoard, and Digital Community SaaS platform Countable.

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Fractional executive and advisory roles for Series A through pre-IPO companies

SPEAKING TOPICS

• Startup go-to-market, scale, and exit strategy