JORGE TORRES

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BiographY

I’m an educator, venture capital investor, and (non-practicing) intellectual property attorney.

Currently, I serve as a Lecturer and Entrepreneurship Fellow at the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, which is Yale University’s hub for student-facing innovation education.

Before higher education, I worked as a venture capital investor with Silas Capital in New York. I was the first hire on the investment team, and through that work and my angel investments, I’ve partnered with the founders of several emerging consumer brands, technology companies, and a venture capital fund-of-funds.

My teaching and coaching focus on new venture creation, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. I work with undergraduates, graduate and professional students, young professionals, and seasoned professionals alike. I’m most helpful when called upon to teach and mentor others on investing fundamentals, raising capital, go-to-market, and new product creation.

I enjoy mentoring entrepreneurs and do a fair amount of it on my own and through my association with the likes of Techstars, Founder Institute, and Endeavor, to name a few of the organizations whose communities of innovators I’ve supported. I also serve as the Chairman of the Board of HBCUvc, a non-profit whose mission is to increase the racial and ethnic diversity in venture capital.

I came to venture capital from a career as a trial attorney. Fun fact: I'm one of the few investors you'll meet who is also a registered US patent attorney.

TEACHING, coaching, & MENTORING

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