Jalak Jobanputra

Founder & Managing Partner

2014 - Current

Early stage venture capital fund focused on decentralization, including the convergence of blockchain tech, machine learning, IoT and security. Portfolio includes Abra, Blockstream, Blockchain.com, Bitpesa, Civic, The Graph, Transparent Systems, Celo and Curio.

Advisory Board, Women in Digital

2011

Independent Board Director

2022 - 2023

Board of Directors

2011 - 2021

Managing Director

2012 - 2012

Founding Partner of $120M technology venture fund in NYC

Director

2010 - 2012

Managing global investments in mobile technologies, services and applications for Omidyar Network.

Senior Vice President

2007 - 2010

Principal investor in NYC early stage startups in the digital media, Internet and software sectors. Spearheaded formation of NYCSeed (www.nycseed.com) and the Fintech Innovation Lab.

Principal

2004 - 2007

Specialized in incubation and spinout of technology companies at Fortune 100 companies. Board Director at Procelerate and Real Time Content. Incubations included online video advertising and search, NLP/speech recognition, recommendation engines, digital music, enterprise software 3D displays, wireless broadband.

President

2003 - 2004

Sales, marketing and business development consultant for early stage software, web, medical device and biotech entrepreneurs.

Strategic Investment Manager

1999 - 2003

Principal investor in early-mid stage startups in enterprise software, digital media and Internet. Exits include Extricity (sold to Peregrine), Demantra (sold to Oracle) and Viacore (sold to IBM). Other portfolio companies include Zinio (digital publishing), Yodlee and Sportsvision. Negotiated strategic relationships with Intel business units.