Jeff Heitzman
Investor at Chicago Trading Company
Jeff Heitzman
Investor at Chicago Trading Company
Naperville, Illinois
Overview
Work Experience
AngelList Syndicate Lead, "Jeff Heitzman" Syndicate
2022 - Current
Lead investor in early stage startups alongside other accredited investors. My initial focus for this syndicate will be on standouts from the Y-Combinator Summer and Winter Demo Day batches 2x per year. I am market agnostic but have high affinity to FinTech, Emerging Markets, On-thesis investing, Exceptional Traction, a Compelling "Why Now" and Unique Highly Scalable biz models... led by Exceptional Founders. https://angel.co/s/jeff-heitzman/bWw58
Angel Investor
2014
Startup investor in Kin Insurance, Tovala, Jeeves, Mercury, Chipper Cash, Embark, Rappi, Protocol Labs (Filecoin), Bolt, Rappi, Side Real Estate, Boom Supersonic, Wright Electric, Tala, Standard Cognition, Grabango, Remote, Shipbob, Nuerable, Sandbox VR, Scope AR, Axiom Space, Branch.io, Hologram, BillionToOne, Albert, Oxygen, Crexi, OpenPhone, Superhuman, nTopology, Rebellyous Foods, Yassir, Finless Foods, Blokable, Stonks, Wefunder, Statiq, Advantage Club, Karbon and Density
Managing Partner, CTC Ventures
2017 - 2019
Proposed and led an early stage venture fund for innovative technology startups w/ high potential to achieve massive scale. Responsible for deal flow, screening and identifying investment opportunities for CTC. Invested across Fintech, Blockchain, InsurTech, PropTech, Data & Analytics, AI and Machine Learning, and VR. Invested 2x (seed and A round) in portfolio standout Kin Insurance (D2C home insurance) which raised a $100M+ Series D in 2022 and has already had offers to be acquired for $1Bn+.
Partner, Technology Risk Manager
2013 - 2017
Global electronic trading safety
Partner, Risk Analytics
2010 - 2013
Headed a new quantitative/risk/development team that was building tools for firm-wide Global Risk Management; reported to Eric Chern (Chief Risk Officer, founding partner, and future long tenured CEO)
Executive Director, Risk Analytics
2009 - 2010
Heading a new quantitative/risk/development team that is building tools for Global Risk Management
Executive Director, Financial Engineering
2004 - 2009
Manager of Trading Analytics and Prototyping (FE team grew from 2 to 20+)
Options Trader
2001 - 2004
Options Market-making in (SPX) S&P 500 pit at CBOE
AngelList Syndicate Lead
2015 - 2017
https://angel.co/new-stack-ventures/syndicate (Investing with Nick Moran of the Full Ratchet podcast: http://fullratchet.net/) We invest in founders and products that are positioned to fundamentally change existing markets or create new markets. Typical investments are early at the seed or pre-seed stage. Our aim is to connect to and support founders and future founders before any capital has been raised. The process of building and growing startups has changed significantly in the past decade. This new wave of innovation has resulted in companies going from idea to $1B+ companies in a matter of years. The way that companies are funded must also evolve with the demands required by modern entrepreneurs. New Stack Ventures was founded on the principle that both the "Startup Stack" and the "Funding Stack" has and will continue to evolve. The barriers to attain funding are coming down and we plan to build a community that can leverage this opportunity to create maximum value for entrepreneurs and investors.