Jack Taylor
Managing Director at Touchdown Ventures
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2024 - Current
Director
2023 - 2024
Principal
2020 - 2023
Multi-stage investor in high-growth security, enterprise software, proptech, AI/ML, and IoT companies based in North America, Europe, and Israel. Investments include Pindrop, Robin, HqO, Openpath (acquired by Motorola), VergeSense, Kasa, Mint House, Mapped (Board Visitor)
Senior Associate
2017 - 2020
Touchdown Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that partners with corporations to invest in early and growth-stage companies.
Board Observer
2023
Robin is a flexible workplace platform that connects people with rooms, desks, and others.
Raised $59,100,000.00 from Atlassian Ventures.
President, Philadelphia
2015 - 2017
The InSITE Fellowship is a highly competitive leadership development program comprised of exceptional graduate students at top universities. InSITE Fellows and alumni make up a global network of entrepreneurs and leaders in technology and venture capital. To date, InSITE companies have raised more than $500 million of disclosed funding and have enjoyed many successful exits. Past projects include: Quickframe (https://www.quickframe.com/) STRIVR Labs (http://www.strivrlabs.com/)
A highly competitive leadership development program comprised of exceptional graduate students at top universities
MBA Intern
2016 - 2016
Personal Capital is a financial technology company backed by IVP and Venrock; it was acquired by Empower for $1B in 2020 I spent the summer between my 1st and 2nd year of business school focused on: • Creating a mobile marketing strategy playbook by leveraging product features, market analysis, and internal benchmarks. • Developing a business case for 3 new consumer financial product verticals, identifying TAM, financial and non-financial benefits, regulatory concerns, and cross-sell partners.
Personal Capital combines online financial tools with registered financial advisor expertise to enable people and grow their net worth.
Raised $265,300,000.00 from IGM Financial.
Investment Professional
2015 - 2015
Laconia leads investments in seed stage B2B companies that make existing markets and workflows more efficient • Collaborated with Managing Directors on all due diligence aspects, including sourcing, business plan reviews, industry research, and financial modeling to conduct sensitivity analyses on late seed-stage and Series A investment opportunities. • Closed $2M seed investment in AutoFi, a digital provider of point-of-sale financing for the auto industry
Laconia leads investments in seed-stage B2B companies digitizing legacy industries.
Future Angel
2014 - 2015
Consortium of 100+ individual accredited angel investors focused on investing in early-stage companies. The leading seed investment organization in NYC having invested over $95 million in entrepreneurial ventures.
Investor
2013 - 2015
Virgil Capital is an angel investment and advisory firm focusing on seed and early stage investments in the greater New York City area
Short-Term Markets Analyst
2010 - 2013
• Received top-tier ranking in analyst class each year; promoted to 3rd-year analyst • Co-managed account base comprising institutional investors, hedge funds, and government-sponsored entities. Strategized with clients to achieve benchmark and execution objectives in various short-term debt products, with balances up to $10B