Jada Imani Freeman

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Partner at Thornfield Venture Partners · Climate

Thornfield Venture Partners
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
10+ years experience
Booth School of Business
English
Investing
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Overview

I invest in climate at Thornfield Venture Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Backed 59 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Bank of America and Reddit. Coffee nerd.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in distributed databases
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • SEO and link-building offers

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Skills
climate techenergyhardwareventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $50k cheques into Series A climate in Africa

Cheque size
$50k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Distributed databases, fintech
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Boston, MAclimate techhardwareenergy
Open

Experience

  1. Partner
    Mar 2026 - Present
    Thornfield Venture Partners · 7 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Wrote the hardware service that now handles 63 million requests a day.
    • Led the migration of 61 services to climate tech.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 34% in two quarters.
  2. Senior Product Manager
    Aug 2024 - Mar 2026
    Bank of America · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Launched the payments product in 8 markets.
  3. Product Manager
    Sep 2020 - Apr 2024
    Reddit · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Grew growth revenue from $4 million to $34 million ARR.
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
  4. Product Manager
    Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
    Okta · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Ran 111 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  5. Associate Product Manager
    Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
    Lyft · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Took developer activation from 27% to 40% in three quarters.
    • Ran 57 customer interviews before writing the first spec.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from storage
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling distributed databases.

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Education

  1. Booth School of Business
    MBA, Business Administration
    2012 - 2014
  2. University of Florida
    BS, Business Administration
    2004 - 2008

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