Jessica Lin

Jessica Lin is co-founder and general partner of Work-Bench, an enterprise venture fund in New York City, New York, which she started with Jonathan Lehr in 2013, according to Ctech.

Taking an Engineering Class at Harvard

At Harvard she studied international relations, African studies and Swahili and planned a career in global health, she told Forbes. An engineering class in her senior year opened her up to tech. After graduation she helped launch a design fellowship for Harvard students in Cape Town, South Africa, advising student startups.

Agile Transformation at Cisco

She then joined Cisco Systems as a learning and development manager, working with engineering on Agile transformation and culture, according to SaaStr. "I'm actually not only IT to VC, I'm also Swahili to VC," she said.