Jason Caplain
General Partner at Southern Capitol Ventures
Durham, North Carolina
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2013 - Current
Bull City Venture Partners is a venture capital firm.
Board Member
2023
Board Observer
2019 - 2023
Levitate develops a relationship marketing platform that provides communication tools and an AI dashboard.
Raised $55,000,000.00 from Bull City Venture Partners, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures and Harbert Growth Partners.
Board Observer
2022
Get Spiffy is an on-demand car wash and detailing service.
Raised $90,100,000.00 from Triangle Tweener Fund, Trog Hawley Capital, MANN+HUMMEL, Shell Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Gaingels, Edison Partners, Flucas Ventures, Private Access Network and Attinger.
Board Observer
2022
Extend your ecommerce cash flow with capital and banking solutions built specifically for online sellers.
Raised $71,000,000.00 from Triangle Tweener Fund, Bull City Venture Partners, Anamcara Capital, Triangle Tweener Fund, Viola Ventures, Angular Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.
Investment Advisory Board
2015
Formed in 2005, Virginia Venture Partners invests in Virginia-based companies and takes Limited Partner positions in venture capital funds to generate significant economic returns for entrepreneurs, General Partners, co-investors, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. VVP is consistently the most active seed investor in the state.
Virginia Venture Partners invests in seed-stage technology and life science companies.
Mindshare Organizing Board
2024
MIndshare is an invitation-only, non-profit network established to develop and execute a one-year training and mentorship program for the region's most promising, disruptive, high growth companies and CEOs. Mindshare's mission is to designed to build community and the ecosystem amongst entrepreneurs by fostering innovation, knowledge and collaboration. The mission also is built to strengthen networks, access to recognized leaders in the community, advisors and investors as the CEOs build successful companies. Since inception over the past 20 years, the program has graduated over 1,200 CEOs who are now part of the Alumni Network.
General Partner and Co-Founder
2000
Southern Capitol Ventures is an American venture capital firm funding technology companies in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Finance & Operations
1998 - 2000
Finance & Operations Group
Red Hat is a software company that offers enterprise open source software solutions.
Partner
1996 - 1998