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Alex Kaufman

Founder of APA Venture Partners

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Alex Kaufman is currently a Director at HSBC in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in organizational development, culture change, deal closure, and renewable energy. Highlights of their career include co-founding APA Venture Partners and serving in key investment roles at Verizon Ventures and JetBlue Ventures.

Work Experience 

  • Director

    2024 - Current

    Helping build, support, and develop the innovation ecosystem from the earliest stages through scale.

Oversees relationships with the venture capital community and connects their portfolio companies to the right people at HSBC.

  • Co-Founder

    2020

    APA VP is an early-stage venture fund investing in the automation of legacy industries.

APA Venture Partners is a pre-seed stage venture capital firm. The fund invests in breakthrough technologies in legacy industries

  • Principal

    2021 - 2024

    Corporate venture fund making investments in companies across Consumer, B2B, and Enterprise.

  • Investment Principal

    2017 - 2020

    Early-stage CVC investing in disruptive technology companies at the intersection of travel and hospitality.

JetBlue Ventures invests in and partners with seed-stage startups improving the future of travel and hospitality.

  • Strategy & Finance

    2012 - 2015

    One Medical is a membership-based primary care provider across the US. The company went public in 2020, and was acquired by Amazon in 2023.

Amazon One Medical is a membership-based platform that provides concierge medical services for individuals and businesses.

Raised $532,065,000.00 from The Carlyle Group, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Benchmark, Google Ventures, Oak Investment Partners, Lifeforce Capital, Redmile Group and Maverick Ventures.

  • Technology Investment Banking

    2010 - 2012

    Analyst in Technology Investment Banking group.

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