Jessica Verrilli

Jessica Verrilli, Managing Director & Co-Founder at Adverb Ventures is an active investor based in San Francisco, California. This profile covers what Jessica Verrilli backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Ms. Jessica Verrilli is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Adverb Ventures. Ms. Verrilli has built her career partnering with founders to build breakout companies. She joined Twitter in 2009 as the 34th employee working directly with the founders and over her 8.5-year tenure scaled with the company into the VP of Corporate Development & Strategy. She acquired 30 companies, including Vine and Periscope, and played a critical role in helping Twitter launch new products, technology, and business initiatives. She is a co-founder of #ANGELS and has personally invested in 30+ companies, including Vanta, Gusto, Color, Anchorage, Literati, Coinbase, Instacart, Material Security, Contentful, and many others. She was most recently a General Partner at GV (Google Ventures) where she led investments in companies including Digits, Homebound, Instawork, and others. She is a Pacific Northwest native and has spent nearly two decades in the Bay Area. She was a Human Biology major at Stanford University, where she was a Mayfield Fellow and varsity lacrosse player. She is an Angel Investor.

Notable investments

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