Jon Kraft

Co-Founder, COO

2023 - Current

Operative Games is reinventing the way we create and experience stories, powering a new genre in interactive entertainment with our cutting-edge AI and real-time animation technology, and leveraging the storytelling genius of the best writers in the world.

Chief Strategy Officer, Board of Directors

2022

ExoDexa is transforming the way we educate the coming generations, implementing lessons & collaborative learning opportunities across a wide range of subject areas into a dynamic video game environment. By focusing on engagement & fun, ExoDexa drives active learning environments that foster highly efficient knowledge acquisition and retention.

Venture Partner

2022

We are a transformational venture capital firm with a commitment to nurturing entrepreneurial growth while providing our investors access to myriad investment opportunities. As opportunistic investors, our venture approach is founded upon evaluating early-stage to mid-stage companies, initially investing anywhere from $2MM to $10MM. Our hybrid investment model provides unparalleled flexibility to our investors - by allowing them to invest on either a deal-by-deal basis or a committed fund structure.

Co-Founder, Partner

2012

Business accelerator, helping early stage companies and Fortune 500 companies innovate, developing and launching new products and business initiatives to market.

Walt Disney Corporation - Strategy & Growth Consultant

2022 - 2022

Growth Strategy

Point.me - Strategy & Growth Consultant

2019 - 2020

Advise on corporate communications, strategic corporate development & partnerships for company that allows consumers to quickly and easily optimize their points and miles, increasing the purchasing power of those points by up to an order of magnitude.

The Quantum Storey Company - Advisor, Interim CEO

2018 - 2019

Worked with founders to develop a new media category: Virtual Reality Books. The Quantum Storey SDK makes it easy to produce VR books quickly and cost-effectively, and our patent (pending) protects the unique category we’ve introduced to the market: books brought to life with a combination of AR and VR.

MUMO - Advisor, Interim CEO

2015 - 2019

Worked with founding team to raise capital and develop a mobile app to allow real-time sharing of live music streams; conceived and filed patent on behalf of the company to protect core cost-saving innovation that allows all music to stream at statutory radio rates, the lowest rate possible for online companies.

Apium Swarm Robotics - Advisor, Executive Consultant

2016 - 2017

Worked with Apium CEO to evaluate business opportunities and conduct strategic planning for swarm robotics technology company;

Advisor

2020

Wine Chips makes hand-crafted gourmet snacks made specially to pair with wine. Wine Chips is a brand-driven CPG food company, focused on e-commerce and carried in over 2,500 retail stores and wineries, as well as several of the largest luxury hotel chains in the world.

Co-Founder, Board Member

2012

Start-up consumer technology platform in the family / education space, helping kids develop positive self-identity and agency early in life. Used in over 120,000 classrooms across the U.S. Received strategic investment from LEGO Ventures.

Executive Consultant

2012 - 2012

M&A and Corporate Development. Acquired 8 companies over 2 years, roughly tripling the revenue post-acquisition of these companies and building an active monthly user base of seven million across our family of apps.

Chief Operating Officer

2010 - 2012

UberMedia is an Idealab company. Once the leading independent developer of independent mobile/social applications, the company is focused on mobile monetization and driving innovation in user experiences across a range of online and mobile platforms.

Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder

2006 - 2010

VC-backed company, commercializing advanced computer graphics & computer vision technology to create a cutting edge comprehensive Avatar Platform. Building partnerships with game publishers, Web2.0 communities, virtual worlds, film and television companies, and major consumer brands. Named to Forbes' list of America's Most Promising Companies, October 5th 2009 Issue. Sold to Image Metrix in 2010.

Board of Directors

2004 - 2009

SVP Sales and Marketing

2002 - 2005

Established sales and marketing strategy for CoreObjects, and helped establish infrastructure to prepare company for growth. Company raised venture money, grew sales by 6x, and sold to Symphony Systems.