The house renovator has hired GCV Rising Star Jeffrey Housenbold, formerly a founding managing partner at SBIA where he helped oversee the SoftBank Vision Funds.

Jeffrey Housenbold, formerly a managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), the fund management arm of telecommunications and internet group SoftBank, has joined US-based home improvement service Leaf Home.

Founded in 2019, Leaf Home provides direct-to-consumer home safety and enhancement products including gutter guards and accessibility equipment such as stairlifts, as well as water filtration systems. It has appointed Housenbold president and CEO, and he will help the company’s leadership team support its growth plans.

Housenbold had joined SBIA…

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Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.
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