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Insight Partners

Flare Capital Partners

Max Ventures

Aspect Ventures

Flex Capital

Amigo Health

Company Ventures

Piper Sandler

Stone Point Capital

Greycroft

Piper Jaffray

645 Ventures

Brand Foundry Ventures

Convene

Grand Central Tech

Owl Capital

Acrew Capital

Provider of medical practice platform for concierge physicians and employees. It offers telehealth, in-person primary care, behavioral health, and insurance navigation for patients. It also works with employers to implement high-impact programming that targets the specific issues that employees are facing.

Provider of medical practice platform for concierge physician and employee

Eight

Burch Creative Capital

Scott Belsky

LeFrak

The Cambria Group

BoxGroup

The K Fund

Princeville Capital

Sutter Rock

SuRo Capital

Wynwood Projects

Blink Health is a mobile &amp; web-based platform that provides users to purchase their medications online and pick them up at their local pharmacy at a lower price. Users have to select medicines through Blink's platform and pay for it online. The user will be provided by a Blink voucher, which they can show to the pharmacy to get the prescription, without paying at the pharmacy. Valid at every U.S. pharmacy. Charges no premiums or membership fees. Works with group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and drug-benefit managers to negotiate cheaper medication prices with pharmacies. The company receives a percentage of the savings that it creates on medication transactions.

Marketplace providing drugs at discounted price

Attended a self-directed programming retreat.

Built The Question Game:
→ code here: https://gitlab.com/leffel/the-question-game
→ play it here: https://the-question-game.herokuapp.com/

Explored The Sister Survey - a large, recently digitized public dataset - using Python. Blogged about the process, the result of which sparked a discussion on MetaFilter.
→ code here: https://gitlab.com/leffel/the_sister_survey
→ Metafilter article: https://www.metafilter.com/170789/1967s-most-annoying-question-for-women-in-Catholic-ministry

Built Sonar, a retro-style action game.
→ code here: https://gitlab.com/leffel/sonar
→ play it here: https://leffel.itch.io/sonar

Recurse provides career training programs. Training is provided in coding and programming. Offers open-source projects. Programs span for 12-weeks. Also serves as a recruiting agency.

Community.lawyer (later renamed Afterpattern) was a project I cofounded out of the Blue Ridge Labs Fellowship in 2016. Designed with a mission of increasing access to quality legal care, Afterpattern was acquired by Netdocuments in 2021.

I spent the summer researching the difficulty that low and modest-income New Yorkers face when interfacing with the legal system, launching a prototype/pilot program to make it easier for everyone to find reputable and affordable lawyers for high-impact legal cases, and cofounding a company with the goal of making justice more accessible for everyone.

I shipped dozens of unique games and storytelling formats played by millions of readers. My day-to-day revolved around balancing the needs of a wide variety of stakeholders, including readers across a variety of devices and platforms, editors in News and Entertainment, the Data Science team, the Ad Product team, and the wider tech and product org.

NBCUniversal

Andreessen Horowitz

Man Capital

New Enterprise Associates

RRE Ventures

Lerer Hippeau

Hearst

Kass Lazerow

Michael Lazerow

SoftBank Capital

Ron Conway

Chris Dixon

General Atlantic

SV Angel

Founder Collective

SBNY

Crosscut Ventures

Gross Labs

Verizon Media

Odenn Ventures

Hanover Capital

US-based social news provider. Initially focused exclusively on viral content, but after it added more traditional content, delivering breaking news and deeply reported articles. It receives the majority of its traffic by creating content that is shared on social media websites.

Designed and produced new, mobile-focused games for NBCUniversal brands. Included both HTML5 mobile web titles as well as stand-alone iOS Apps.

Managed and maintained legacy games on NBCUniversal's white label game platform, as well as peripheral community sites.

I wrote a blog series hosted by the NYU Game Center about my experience turning a game design internship into a full-time position. With a conversational tone and a cheeky title, the target audience for "Will Work for XP" was other young, up-and-coming game development professionals. 

Read the series here → http://bit.ly/nicoleWW4XP

As a compliment to this effort, I also founded a job listing newsletter specifically focusing on NYC-based game development positions. Postings were updated on a monthly basis to over 330 listserv members.

Led game design on several projects at FreshPlanet, a NYC-based social games start-up. Projects included games for Facebook, mobile, and tablets. Assisted in the development of Facebook games from ideation, to execution, to post-launch maintenance. In addition to assuming full game design responsibilities, facilitated production in a small team environment.

FreshPlanet is a mobile games and apps developer based out of New York City. Popular for Songpop (2012, Casual) - a song quiz, the game was awarded the best facebook game of 2012. Aims at developing apps and games around pop culture and claims to have over 100M users as on Dec 2015. The company is being backed by IDG ventures, Softtech VC, Crunch F

Worked with Senior Executives at Time Warner Inc. to build a shared understanding of digital media culture and distribution.