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Bootstrapped founder turned GP at Bolster Ventures with MakerBot and Sphero operating roots
Credibility
Firm Standing · 72th percentile
- Active GP and fund manager at Bolster Ventures with a stated check size of $75K.
- Publicly identified as an angel investor and advisor, including a named Advisor/Investor role at Glowforge.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Wikipedia entry exists for Jennifer Lawton, confirming public notability.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current founder of Old School Venture, an active entrepreneurial community initiative she founded in 2015.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of Net Daemons Associates, which she bootstrapped and sold in 1999.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Net Daemons Associates was sold (bootstrapped exit) in 1999; exact acquisition price not publicly disclosed.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Managing Partner at Bolster Ventures, an active investment fund.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active GP and fund manager at Bolster Ventures with a stated check size of $75K.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and advisor, including a named Advisor/Investor role at Glowforge.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)NFX Signal lists her portfolio at 417 connections, indicating at least 3 active investments made.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that sharpen your operator-to-investor narrative and put you in the room with founders who need exactly what you've lived — hardware at scale, edtech ecosystem building, and a clean founder exit. Small, high-trust dinners and roundtables with Techstars alumni, STEM/edtech investors, and micro-VC GPs will accelerate both your deal flow and Bolster Ventures' public positioning faster than any solo content push. Lean into gatherings where your MakerBot and Sphero credentials are the most differentiated thing in the room.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- positioningA dinner for hardware-at-scale founders and investors where your MakerBot CEO tenure anchors a candid conversation about what it actually takes to manufacture and distribute physical products past the prototype stage
- introsA Techstars COO alumni roundtable with current accelerator program leads and co-investors to map live cohort deal flow where operator-credentialed GPs like you add differentiated value beyond the check
- positioningA dinner for edtech and STEM-focused micro-VC GPs — including investors close to the Sphero and littleBits ecosystems — to pressure-test a focused maker/edtech portfolio thesis that separates Bolster Ventures from generalist funds
- fundraisingA happy hour for NFX Signal network members and emerging micro-VC GPs actively structuring AngelList syndicates, to compare deal velocity mechanics and pool co-investment capacity beyond single check-size ceilings
- tacticalA small tactical workshop with first-time founders and a few investors who have publicly documented early exits — modeled on the Net Daemons playbook — on how to write and publish a founder-exit narrative that builds long-term advisory credibility
- positioningA dinner with Foundry Group and USV network GPs who have successfully published sharp investment theses online, to workshop what a Bolster Ventures portfolio page and maker/hardware/edtech thesis statement needs to convert inbound founder interest
- introsA Techstars and Foundry Group alumni investor dinner to surface warm co-investment intros in the current hardware and edtech deal pipeline, where your shared institutional history makes trust the default starting point