Jason Kalira
Partner & Head of Seed Fund at Westly Group
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner & Head of Seed Fund
2023 - Current
I lead the $100M Seed Fund for The Westly Group, an early stage venture capital firm founded in 2007 with $800M+ AUM across five funds. We invest in technology entrepreneurs who are transforming the world's largest industries: Industrials, mobility, energy, built environment and the related sectors that account for over 50% of the world’s GDP. The Seed Fund is deployed along side our $312M Core Fund, and as a firm we invest lead checks of $500K-$20M from Pre-Seed to Series C. Our portfolio includes 9 IPOs, 4 multi-billion dollar exits (Tesla, Luminar, Sentinel One, Procore) and is supported by a global network of some of the world's largest companies across our focus areas: - ABB - Alaska Airlines - American Electric Power (AEP) - Audi - Avista Corporation - Bridgestone - China Light & Power - CNH Industrial - Dominion Energy - Duke Energy - ENEOS - Evergy - Geotab - Hitachi Energy - NorthWestern Energy - Oklahoma Gas & Electric - ONEOK - Origin Energy - Oshkosh Corporation - Pennsylvania Power & Light (PPL) - Pinnacle West Corporation - Puget Sound Energy - State Farm Insurance - Tokyo Gas (Acario) - Trane Technologies - Vistra Corp - Vontier - Xylem
The Westly Group is a Venture Capital fund
Board Member
2024
Diagon Technologies is a solutions-oriented service platform that builds tools that handle equipment lifecycle to manufacturing needs.
Raised $5,100,000.00 from Valia Ventures, Foster Ventures, Foxe Capital, The Westly Group, REFASHIOND Ventures, Ventures Together, Techstars and Anthemis.
Board Member
2023
Investor
2023
Orb is the modern billing infrastructure powering revenue workflows for the next wave of AI and software companies.
Raised $44,100,000.00 from Greylock, South Park Commons, Mayfield Fund, basecase capital, Menlo Ventures, Scribble Ventures and Uncorrelated Ventures.
Investor
2022
Drata is a compliance and security SaaS platform that automates the compliance workflows on a company's security controls.
Raised $328,240,856.00 from Jeff Weiner, SentinelOne, Jennifer Tejada, Notable Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Jonathan Rubinstein, Amit Agarwal, Olivier Pomel, ICONIQ Growth and Cowboy Ventures.
Investor
2021
The next-gen FP&A platform for strategic finance and executive teams
Raised $24,200,000.00 from Xffirmers, FOG Ventures, Google Ventures, Dwight Crow and Menlo Ventures.
Investor
2021
Investor [Acquired]
2021 - 2023
Acquired by Paylocity [Nasdaq: PCTY]
Chief Operating Officer
2022 - 2022
Interim CEO & Board Member
2022 - 2022
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Strategy Officer
2018 - 2022
Parsable's Connected Worker Platform is used by the world's largest industrial companies to give frontline workers a digital edge in an increasingly automated world. Founded by veterans of Google, Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle, we're headquartered in San Francisco with offices throughout North America and Europe. We've raised over $133M in funding from investors and partners including Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, First Round Capital, B37 Ventures, Airbus, Saudi Aramco, Honeywell and Cisco.
Parsable offers a connected worker platform for industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety.
Raised $132,874,243.00 from Downing Ventures, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, B37 Ventures, Future Fund, Activate Capital Partners, Cisco Investments, Evolv Ventures, Honeywell, Princeville Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
VP Finance & Operations [Acquired]
2016 - 2018
I led all FP&A, fundraising and business operations for BrightFunnel, including an M&A process that resulted in our successful acquisition by Terminus in December 2017
Terminus is a marketing platform used to target companies, engage decision-makers on their terms, and accelerate pipeline velocity.
Raised $192,926,089.00 from BLH Venture Partners.