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Jared Hecht
Venture Partner at Union Square Ventures
JH
Jared Hecht
Venture Partner at Union Square Ventures
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2024 - Current
Building & Investing
2012 - 2023
Building companies and investing in entrepreneurs we admire. Build: GroupMe, Fundera, Splice, Blade (BLDE) Invest: WISE, Sweetgreen, Truebill, Chess.com, Roam, Flatiron and many more…
Co-Founder and CEO
2014 - 2022
Grew to a profitable $100M+ annual revenue business with 1M+ monthly visitors to the marketplace. Acquired by Nerdwallet in 2020.
Co-Founder
2010 - 2013
100M+ people have used GroupMe, including 25M MAU and virtually every college student in the country. Acquired by Skype/MSFT in 2011.
Business Development
2009 - 2010
Education
BA
2005 - 2009
Latest Articles
Medium•Sep. 2015
Prosperity for Fintech
Talks about Fintech, Prosper acquisition and online lending industry
Jared
Ride It to the Sky | The Piggyback Bootstrap
Talks about product distribution, networked products and marketplaces