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So, what is Jeves Inc?
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Jeves Inc captures and encapsulates Jenny's background, skill-base and business interests. From law, angel, early stage and mainstream investing, patronage of the arts, mentoring, global thought leadership and her support of certain charities.
It marks the bringing together of the many strands which merged in recent years in a substantial and influential way. Placing Jeves Inc on a more public platform was a natural step. Active angel investors provide many skills when supporting new ventures and the entrepreneurs behind them This isn't dissimilar to how some in the arts support the arts community. After all, angels are to some extent patrons of entrepreneurs - and patrons are to some extent angels to the arts. Both patrons and angels invest in more ways than one. Jenny's always been an advocate for innovation - a theme she focussed on first when studying law in the 1980's, writing honours research theses on the intersection between law and two quite different (and at that time very new) areas of innovation - protecting computer software on the one hand and new birth technologies on the other. Her approach to high-end commercial litigation (from maritime through to international insolvencies) was known to be innovative, global and precedent-setting. Crossing one area of law over into another to find a solution where others could not, was one of her most effective strategies. For Jenny innovative disruption by new technology was always going to happen - but until relatively recently the reality was that effective and reliable frameworks didn't exist to enable ventures to evolve and scale up in a consistently savvy manner and with the necessary speed. Jeves Inc is, in part, reflective of a Foundation (having a philanthropic as well as commercial angle) and Jenny is always open to assisting important game-changing ventures which may fall into the category of thought leadership with a global or local, commercial or social focus. Jeves Inc was the lead financial sponsor of the 7x7 Ideas Forum which returned to NZ in 2016._ More recently, Jenny is the principal founding sponsor of and an advisor to AmbitionNZ - a project considering and assessing the concept of ambition and what it means to New Zealanders. She is also a backer of Policy Local - a platform launched in September 2019. The primary focus of the new ventures Jenny invests in are innovative/disruptive new tech/clean tech with global reach. (You can find the ventures at the Greenlight Ventures NZ section of this site.) She is a supporter of NZ entrepreneurs and in addition to being a strong commercial operator she's a strong advocate of the importance of social enterprise (business for profit and purpose). 
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What's on this site? |
This is a new site - established in January 2016. As with all good things, it will evolve.
At this stage the site provides contact details and some background re Jenny and the scope of Jeves Inc. Blogs and some gems will appear. Do not hesitate to contact Jenny direct. If you wish to connect with Jenny via Linkedin then let her know. |