Jan Beránek Email & Phone Number

Jan Beránek is a FifthRow CEO at U Plus, Inc. based in San Francisco, California, United States, North America. I am the Founder and CEO of U+ Digital Ventures and FifthRow, and a GP at U+NOVA. I have nearly two decades of experience leading digital innovation and transformation projects in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. I began my career in the Czech Republic as an independent developer at the age of 14. I founded U+ during my undergraduate studies. As U+ continued to launch successful innovations and businesses, I steadily scaled and continued to grow the business globally and have achieved my lifelong goal of moving our headquarters to Silicon Valley in 2017 to pursue building innovative, world-changing technologies for the biggest companies in the world. U+ Digital Ventures runs InnovationOps, delivering AI-powered digital innovation. To date, we have brought 120+ successful businesses to market, creating over $2 billion in new value. Recently, our biggest achievements include launching FifthRow (previously, U+AI) and U+NOVA. FifthRow is a fully AI-integrated InnovationOps platform that automates everything except the building of the ventures. With FifthRow, Fortune 500s have accelerated Market Research, Venture Discovery & Validation from 5 months to 2 weeks. It's 100x faster and 10x cheaper than any consultancy. Partnered with GCV’s Global Industry Councils, Nova Global Ventures is a technology-agnostic fund indexed on the best CVCs. We focus on creating ventures and managing investment portfolios to deliver tangible near-term impact to the bottom line. I am also a mentor at Google for Startups, European Space Agency BIC, and WeWork Labs NYC. Let’s innovate and go to market together!