Joyce J. Shen
Global Managing Director, Emerging Tech Partnerships & Investments @ Thomson Reuters
New York, United States
Joyce J. Shen is a seed investor at Thomson Reuters in New York focused on FinTech and Software. Joyce Shen is the Managing Partner of Together Expedition, an investment firm that backs data, AI, and emerging technology companies for a better future. Joyce has extensive experience in investing institutional and family office capital in emerging technology companies and guiding those investments in different industries to generate value as aninvestor and board director. Joyce's technical expertise centers around emerging technologies, data, and machine learning & AI. With unique and significant cross-functional experience that span VC/PE, M&A, corporate finance, corporate strategy, product innovation, and go-to-market, Joyce has successfully funded, built, and scaled new businesses in both global public companies and private technology companies.Joyce served as the investment and operating partner at Tenfore Holdings, a global investment firm focused on data-rich and tech-enabled companies.Since 2016, Joyce has served as an adjunct data science faculty teaching graduate students at the University of California Berkeley and received two Distinguished and Excellence in Teaching Awards. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and at the Saïd Business School, the University of Oxford.Joyce was the Global Managing Director in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer at Thomson Reuters. She built the corporate venture fund and invested in early-stage enterprise software and data startups. Joyce was also responsible for creating and implementing the cohesive global emerging technology strategy, technology scouting, and startup ecosystem and partnerships.Prior to Thomson Reuters, Joyce was the founding Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer of IBM Cloud Platform responsible for a multi-billion P&L. Before that, Joyce led finance, operations, and acquisition integration of the $1 billion Collaboration and HR SaaS software business. She started her career in IBM M&A Corporate Development, closing acquisitions over $6 billion in cloud, data management, and security.Joyce received two bachelor’s degrees in Statistics and Economics from the University of Chicago, where she worked two jobs as a research assistant for the former Chair of Political Science and a teaching assistant in Statistics. Joyce received an MBA with concentrations in Quantitative Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she served as the president of her cohort. Joyce also completed graduate studies in economics and M&A law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Joyce has published three books on blockchain in financial services, innovation, entrepreneurship. Joyce is an inventor of a patent on detecting and locating unsecured sensors in critical infrastructures.Joyce has served on the boards of technology companies. She is a board member of the University of Chicago Alumni Association in New York, a Trustee of the Altman Foundation, and a member of the innovation advisory council of the World Food Programme. She was a member of the Advisory Boards of Enterprise Estonia, Per Scholas, and Sponsors for Education Opportunity (SEO).
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Joyce J. Shen invests in
Stages Joyce J. Shen invests in
Countries Joyce J. Shen invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (33%)
- Software 4 (33%)
- Financial Services 4 (33%)
- Big Data 2 (17%)
- Analytics 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (42%)
- Series A 3 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 9 (75%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Investments
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| ThreatBlockr is the only active defense cybersecurity platform that fully automates the enforcement, deployment and analysis of cyber intelligence at a massive scale. As the foundational layer of an active defense strategy, ThreatBlockr’s patented solution blocks known threats from ever reaching customers’ networks. ThreatBlockr utilizes immensevolumes of cyber intelligence from over 50 renowned security vendors to provide unparalleled visibility over the threat landscape resulting in a more efficient and effective security posture. Block. Every. Threat. at threatblockr.com. | $5M / Series A / Mar 22, 2022 | ||
| Elsen is the Platform-as-a-Service company for large financial institutions. The Elsen nPlatform enables anyone to effortlessly harness vast quantities of data to make better decisions and quickly solve the most complex problems. | Seed / Aug 17, 2017 | ||
| Axoni is a real-time data replication technology company serving the world’s largest financial institutions. Axoni’s platform enables rapid, reliable deployment of critical financial networks and automated, real-time data replication across market participants. Founded in 2017, the company serves banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and financialmarket infrastructure firms across the globe from offices in New York and London. | $20M / Series A / May 11, 2017 | ||
| Cubeiq is a business intelligence company that provides its clients with consumer behavior and trend insights.The company offers its clients with marketing, retail, research, and publisher services. Its marketing platform offers audience targeting, offline campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights. Its retail platformoffers footfall analysis, site selection, and audience and geo-behavioral consumer insights. Its publisher platform offers audience segmentation, campaign attribution, and data monetization services.Cubeiq was founded in 2015 and is based in New York. | $6.1M / Series A / Feb 08, 2017 | ||
| ForwardLane is a fast-growing, award-winning applied AI fintech startup that dramatically enhances productivity with AI-powered insights for financial advisors and fund distributors. Our patent-pending insight platform featuring NLP built for financial services, synthesizes data to find signals for personalized client engagement. The platformdelivers insights integrated into financial advisor and fund distributors workflows in CRM, with Salesforce being a key partner. The platform acts as a powerful "virtual analyst" reviewing all the data across all clients everyday, ranking and scoring it and then surfacing signals for growth opportunities, wallet share increase, retention conversations and awareness across the book as to who to reach out to, and what to talk about. Together this fuels organic, scalable growth through frequent, proactive personalized engagement. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Jan 22, 2017 | ||
| Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies. | $2.6M / Seed / Oct 12, 2016 | ||
| Airside Mobile builds innovative digital identity products for businesses and consumers with privacy-by-design and leading-edge security as its guiding principles. Among a suite of products, Airside's award-winning Mobile Passport app expedites the customs entry process into the U.S. at nearly 30 major airports and cruise ports. In concertwith U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Airports Council International-North America, Boeing, and Airlines for America, Mobile Passport has facilitated over 10 million entries into the United States.Airside partners with private and public entities to create seamless experiences for their customers, employees, and stakeholders to balance data privacy, transparency, and convenience.Established in 2009, Airside Mobile is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and is funded by Blazar Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and 8VC. | Seed / Dec 21, 2015 | ||
| Hijro is the financial operating network for global trade powered by distributed ledger technology. Hijro connects banks, buyers, and suppliers across one network designed to streamline and automate settlement, reduce fraud risk, and break down costly data silo’s in the $4 trillion open-account trade market. Built on distributed ledger technology,the Hijro Network acts as a global “fabric” for trade, providing partners and network participants with a much smarter, more secure, and more efficient way to move value and assets around the world.Our applications and solutions are built on the Hijro Network including a multi-bank, multi-lender trade asset marketplace, flexible working capital solutions for businesses, and APIs that allow easy connection into the network. Tokenize, transfer, and trade different types of digital assets between financial institutions including receivables and approved payables on the Hijro global trade asset marketplace. Connect with Hijro and bring your organization into the future of trade. | $850K / Seed / Nov 01, 2015 | ||
| Agolo does one thing exceptionally well: we turn messy, freeform unstructured product data into a clean entity graph-based data store that, in turn, powers many enterprise use cases. Use cases range from GenAI Apps to LLMs and RAG Pipelines to Business Intelligence Dashboards and Reports to Support Site Augmentation to Enterprise and ApplicationSearch.Taken together, the business impact is clear line of sight to your customers' product experience, leading to improved product quality, lower support costs, and faster detection of emerging issues. | Seed / Aug 28, 2015 | ||
| Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is accessible to any enterprise. Tamr team began building a commercial-grade solution designed to tackle the challenge of connecting and enriching diverse data at scale and cost-effectively.Tamr is deployed in production at a variety of organizations, including information services providers,pharmaceutical firms, and retailers. Tamr, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 2013 by database industry veterans Andy Palmer, Mike Stonebraker, and Ihab Ilyas with George Beskales, Daniel Bruckner, and Alex Pagan. | $25.2M / Series B / Jun 19, 2015 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is a multinational media and information firm that delivers critical information from the financial, legal, risk, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets. The company sells electronic content and services to professionals primarily on a subscription basis. Its financial and risk segment offers news,information, and analytics, as well as enabling transactions that bring together communities to allow trading, investing, financial, and corporate professionals to connect. This segment also provides regulatory and operational risk management solutions. The legal segment offers critical online and prints information, decision tools, and software and services to support legal, investigation, business, and government professionals. This segment’s products and services include legal research solutions; know-how solutions; software-based workflow solutions; compliance solutions; marketing, finance, and operations software; litigation support tools; and business development and legal process outsourcing services. The tax and accounting segment provides integrated tax compliance and accounting information, software, and services for professionals in accounting firms, corporations, law firms, and the government. The intellectual property and science segment offers intellectual property and scientific information, and decision support tools and services that enable governments, academia, publishers, corporations, and law firms to discover, protect, and commercialize new ideas and brands. Thomson Reuters also operates Reuters, which provides real-time multimedia news and information services to newspapers, television and cable networks, radio stations, and websites.
Thomson Reuters Contacts
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Aditi Bhandari
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What does Joyce J. Shen invest in?
Joyce J. Shen invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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