Stephanie Cherrin

Stephanie is a Partner on the JP Morgan Technology Ventures team where she identifies and invests in early growth stage tech and tech-enabled businesses. Throughout her career, Stephanie has amassed a wealth of experience in the tech industry and venture capital spanning Israel, Europe and the United States.

Prior to joining JP Morgan, Stephanie opened and managed the Porsche Ventures North American arm where she led strategic investments on behalf of Porsche AG and the broader VW Group. Her areas of focus spanned B2B software, battery technology, fintech and more. She pushed the group out of its comfort zone to invest in areas that were disruptive to the automotive industry such as mobile repair, enterprise software to elevate the company’s customer service experience, and various embedded finance companies.

Before joining Porsche, Stephanie was Head of Network at NFX, where she worked on investments in early-stage startups that had network effects as part of their business models. She worked closely with the portfolio and identified new opportunities through these relationships. 

Back in Israel, Stephanie ran the Israeli branch of the Deutsche Telekom hub:raum Fund, the corporation’s seed-stage innovation fund that had incubation, prototyping and investment activities in Europe and Israel. Leading the Israeli ecosystem for the group, she was responsible for bringing dozens of companies to market in partnership with Deutsche Telekom to a variety of countries. In pursuit of new opportunities, Stephanie moved to Silicon Valley where she worked with T-Mobile US as an extension of Deutsche Telekom’s innovation activities. She worked with VCs, startups and corporate, while also leading strategic investments. 

She began her career in VC in Tel Aviv as a founding member of a B2C-focused fund in Tel Aviv, Krypton Venture Capital. During her time there she worked closely with founders to help them find product-market fit while being far away from their target customers in either Europe or the US. This model leveraged media traffic for intense A/B testing to make informed product decisions. She learned the ins and outs of building a venture fund from the ground up that served as the foundation for all future positions she would hold.

Stephanie has a BA and MA in Counter-Terrorism and International Security. She threw in her government hat to promote international cooperation through technology.

Stephanie is a passionate surfer, married to one and sibling to two other relentless entrepreneurs and mother to two young boys and one little girl. She is dedicated to marine conservation and a founding member of Surfing 4 Peace, the Kelly Slater and Doc Paskowitz peace initiative in Israel.