Joe Vasquez

Joe Vasquez is a Venture Partner at Revel Partners, an angel investor, and an advisor and an innovation consultant for global brands. He was most recently a Director at Runway Innovation, a leading startup incubator and corporate innovation lab in San Francisco that was acquired in 2017 by a Global 2000 corporation. In his capacity at Runway Innovation, he oversaw a 60+ startup ecosystem, an accelerator focused on the future of work, and advised Global 2000 clients including Lenovo, Panasonic, KDDI, ADT, Fujitsu, and many others.

Spurred by his hearing loss, Joe is alway looking for ways to create impact; he is a founder of the Michelson Runway Edtech Accelerator and a Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum. To date, Michelson Runway, an initiative of Runway Innovation, has invested in eighteen leading education technology startups with plans to invest in several more in 2019.

Joe has taught thousands of students around the world about entrepreneurship and venture capital through the Kauffman Foundation program alongside Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson, and many others. He was also an early co-founder of StartX, a top-10 global startup accelerator based out of Stanford University that has supported hundreds of companies to date. For his work supporting startups and driving impact through tech, Joe was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 and the 40 Under 40: Tech Diversity – Silicon Valley Times lists.