Joe Woods
- Role
- Head of Strategy & Business Development at Idl Ventures
- Location
- Glen Ellyn, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Head of Strategy & Business Development
May 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
IDL Ventures is an innovative Internationalization Platform and Fund focused on bringing 2 Cohorts a year of foreign early-stage Deep Tech companies with emerging tech and talent, and marquee customers, to the US. IDL\'s program brings these companies to Chicago and helps them gain traction in the US market, hire a local US team, advance their technologies, and obtain US funding. Our Cohort 1 with 7 IoT/AI and Med/BioTech companies started arriving in May. Our mission is to bridge, strengthen, and expand global innovation, entrepreneurship, and collaboration. We are sourcing international startups in our next Cohort and Seed investment in Cohort 1 for later this year.
Education
MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan Executive Certificate, Corporate Innovation: Strategies for Leveraging Ecosystems
2019 — 2019
The Wharton School
BS Economincs, Econimocs, Finance
1975 — 1979
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance
1981 — 1983
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