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Jake Gibson

Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures

San Mateo, California

Overview 

Jake Gibson is the Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, investing in FinTech and SaaS companies, with significant experience in strategic planning, IPOs, and leadership. Notable career highlights include co-founding NerdWallet and serving as Vice President at JP Morgan Chase in North American Interest Rate Trading.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2019 - Current

    BTV is an early stage venture fund focused on building the future of fintech.

  • Investor

    2016 - 2019

    Mentor and investor at the best accelerator for early stage fintech companies

  • Angel Investor

    2013 - 2019

    angel.co/jacob-gibson

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2017

  • COO, Co-founder

    2010 - 2014

    NerdWallet is (always) hiring! See our openings here - http://grnh.se/lhixt2

NerdWallet develops a financial platform to help people find the right credit cards and mortgage rates.

Raised $105,000,000.00 from Raison Wealth, Employee Stock Option Fund and MAK Ventures.

  • Vice President, North American Interest Rate Trading

    2008 - 2010

    - Priced trades for hedge fund clients while co-managing a market making portfolio of USD interest rate swaps - Oversaw the development of various front office trading technologies, including tools for intraday risk management, quantitative trade analysis, and automated trading - Lead the expansion of the algorithmic trading business, taking a black box model and growing it into a platform generating tens of millions of dollars

  • Associate, Interest Rate Proprietary Trading

    2004 - 2008

    - Oversaw risk and executed trades across USD interest rate markets, including swaps and swaptions, treasuries and agencies, and Eurodollar and treasury futures - Worked with Research to design and configure quantitative derivative pricing models, such as a stochastic vol model, for rapid intraday trade analysis - Lead a team of software developers in designing and troubleshooting an automated electronic trading platform for use across multiple asset classes

Morgan Health is the healthcare investment arm of JPMorgan Chase.

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