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Jared Hecht
Venture Partner at Union Square Ventures
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Jared Hecht is currently an investor at Union Square Ventures in Brooklyn, New York, with a background in co-founding successful startups like Fundera and GroupMe. Notable career highlights include co-founding GroupMe, which was later acquired by Skype/Microsoft, and Fundera, which was acquired by NerdWallet.
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2024 - Current
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage, growth-capital, late-stage, and startup financing.
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…
Magellan is a venture capital company that builds companies and invests in entrepreneurs they admire.
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.
Fundera is a marketplace for small business financial solutions.
Raised $18,900,000.00 from David Rosenblatt, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Core Innovation Capital, Scott Belsky, First Round Capital, BoxGroup, Invus Opportunities, QED Investors, Aaron Levie and Khosla Ventures.
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
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website.
Raised $125,250,000.00 from Menlo Ventures.
Education
BA
2005 - 2009