LARA JEREMKO
Chief Executive Officer




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.