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9/11: Bravery, Luck, & Resilience
Talks about New York City, 9/11 attacks and bravery
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Jalak Jobanputra
Managing Partner at Future\Perfect Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Jalak Jobanputra is the Founder & Managing Partner at Future\Perfect Ventures, focusing on early-stage investments in blockchain technology, cryptoassets, artificial intelligence, and HCI. With a notable career spanning roles at Intel, New York City Investment Fund, and Omidyar Network, Jalak has invested in a diverse portfolio of companies such as Blockchain.com, Civic, and Andela, contributing to the growth and development of innovative startups in the tech industry.
Work Experience
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
Signature Bank is a New York-based full-service commercial bank that offers business and personal banking products and services.
Raised $1,789,600,000.00.
Board of Directors
2011 - 2021
The Center for an Urban Future is an American public policy think tank based in Manhattan, United States.
Managing Director
2012 - 2012
Founding Partner of $120M technology venture fund in NYC
RTP Ventures focuses on B2B software companies targeting banking, healthcare, and manufacturing.
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.
New Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm specializing in corporate spinouts, and seed-, early-, and mid-stage investments.
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.
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Education
Investments
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