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Jason Syversen

Founder of Jumpstart Sferics Consulting

Greater Boston

Overview 

Jason Syversen is a CEO and investor based in Greater Boston with a background in cryptography, algorithms, and computer security. He has served as the Founder and CEO of Siege Technologies, LLC and has invested in various startups, including Ovation and Meenta. Syversen has a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Maine. He has held leadership roles at companies like Sports Visio, Inc. and currently serves as the Managing Partner at 10X Venture Partners, while also being involved in advisory boards and as a member of Founders Pledge.

Work Experience 

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2021 - Current

SportsVisio develops a sports statistics platform that uses computer vision on sports video feeds to capture statistical information.

Raised $6,105,000.00 from Sapphire Sport, Hyperplane and Geek Ventures.

  • Managing Partner

    2016

    10X Venture Partners is a seed stage (and beyond) investment group. We commit operational experience and dollars to our portfolio companies.

  • Founders Pledge Member

    2019

    I’m excited to be a member of Founders Pledge. We’re a global community of entrepreneurs finding and funding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Every member, including myself, has made a legally binding commitment to donate a portion of personal proceeds on liquidity to social causes. The Founders Pledge team provides charity research and vetting, a global network of experts, and end-to-end giving infrastructure, and they take no cuts and charge no fees. They also host community events across the globe. Drop me a message if you want to learn more or be put in touch.

  • Cofounder and Partner

    2023

Jumpstart Sferics Consulting is a consulting firm.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2019

PFP is a cloud-based analytics that enables integrity assessment-as-a-service using dynamic power behavior analysis.

Raised $6,623,322.00 from Blu Venture Investors, Virginia Venture Partners and Blu Venture Investors.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2018 - 2022

Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.

Raised $2,500,000.00 from LAUNCH.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2018 - 2020

Four18 Intelligence is developing a collaborative cyber threat hunting PaaS for analyst training and on-demand talent access

Raised $1,485,000.00 from DEV Capital.

  • Board Of Directors

    2018 - 2019

NETSHIELD is a breach prevention company that offers intranet breach prevention appliances and advanced mobile and IoT security.

Raised $4,420,902.00 from Sand Hill East and Farmington Capital Partners.

  • Chief Scientist

    2018 - 2019

  • Founder and CEO

    2009 - 2019

    Started Siege in my living room. Bootstrapped using a home equity line of credit and some investment from cofounder and first employee. Scaled business from 0 to dozens of employees exclusively from customer funding. Siege developed innovative technologies in cyber quantification, penetration testing, anti-tamper, and numerous active cyber research areas such as moving target defense, blockchain, insider threat and others. Siege personnel developed deep expertise in a myriad of consumer and military technologies utilizing Intel, AMD, and ARM architectures and published talked on hypervisors, root of trust, system exploitation, and many other topics at places like Blackhat and other venues. Customers spanned across the department of defense, other government agencies, and large/small companies. Firm received numerous innovation/customer impact awards and hosted visits from senators and other interested officials. Oversaw and often contributed to the filing of multiple cyber security patents. Spun out technology to a VC-backed firm that raised 8 digits in funding to commercialize. Successfully identified and negotiated acquisition by Nehemiah Security (now ThreatConnect) in 2016.

A pioneer of multi-purpose cybersecurity products and services

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