Lara Jeremko - Founder & CEO
Lara Jeremko is a venture capital and innovation advisor with over 18 years experience in institutional investment management and innovation strategy. As Founder & CEO of Beyond Ventures, Lara advises Pivotal Ventures, the incubation and investment company founded by Melinda French Gates, with a focus on caregiving, longevity and impact investment. Lara is also an active angel investor and on the Board of Directors for AI LA, a non-profit furthering the ethical application, and public education of artificial intelligence. Lara also designed and led the XR Education Prize Challenge, an innovation competition funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the next generation of immersive education applications.
Previously, Lara was an institutional investment officer managing a $1.5 billion venture capital and growth equity fund portfolio at UTIMCO, the investment firm overseeing $35 billion of University of Texas System endowment assets. She was also a co-founder of re:3D Inc., an industrial 3D printing manufacturing and R&D company whose customers include NASA, Steelcase, Lockheed Martin, Harvard University GSD, U.S. Air Force, FAA and more. Lara was also a private equity analyst at Credit Suisse in New York, NY. Lara graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. from Syracuse University.
When she’s not making big ideas become big realities, you’ll find Lara cultivating her passions for Argentine tango, equestrian polo, and classical piano.
Monique Villa Capra - Senior Investment Advisor
Monique Villa Capra is a venture capitalist and ecosystem builder based in Nashville, TN. She joined Beyond Ventures as a Senior Investment Advisor in 2023. In addition to her work with Beyond Ventures, she is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Mucker Capital and Co-Founder of Build In SE.
Monique served as Launch Tennessee's first Chief Investment Officer leading InvestTN, a new $70 million equity fund as part of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's $10 billion SSBCI program. Before LaunchTN, she was an early-stage investor with Mucker Capital, a venture capital fund investing in Seed and Series A stage companies outside Silicon Valley. Before Mucker, she held operating roles for Core Innovation Capital, a fintech-focused fund based in LA and San Francisco, and Velos Partners, based in LA and Singapore. Her career began in 2008 at TOMS supporting grassroots marketing and sales initiatives.
An interdisciplinarian, she studied film and visual media at UC Irvine and spent 4 years volunteering for iconic public radio station KCRW. She frequents film screenings and farmers' markets, and regularly hosts events to build community and impact both locally and nationally.
Jonathan Gill - Strategic Advisor
Jonathan Gill is a strategic advisor at Beyond Ventures. Jonathan brings with him over 20 years of strategic and tactical expertise with a deep understanding of data-driven decisioning, technology, and innovation ecosystems.
Jonathan was previously CEO and board member of the advertising and media measurement company, Backtracks; co-inventor of a foundational patent in multi-tenant cloud database security; third employee of Mozu (acq. Vista Equity); and a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (aka voted in The Grammy Awards). He began his career at AMD, the semiconductor company, and rose to become Technical Architect.
Jonathan studied the intersection of business and technology with a degree in Management Information Systems and International Business from The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.