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Jake is a serial entrepreneur who has spent his life building and scaling companies. Prior to launching 8VC, he co-founded Humin (Acq. Tinder/IAC), a consumer mobile software company where he built the engineering team and led growth. Most recently, he co-founded Operation Masks with partner Drew Oetting to help bring PPE to medical workers on the front line of the fight against COVID-19. Jake serves as an advisor and board member to a wide range of companies and nonprofits. Jake graduated from the University of Southern California in 2011, where he has been lecturing on entrepreneurship and technology for the last decade.

Professional boxer and YouTuber. top 5 global creator and media mogul with over 7 billion views across his channels.  one of the most searched people on Google and has generated hundreds of millions in revenue through merchandise, branded content, and PPV buys.

Focuses on the messy middle of making data usable, as well as the impact of design on human-technology interactions. Jake is a former lawyer who leverages his legal and regulatory experience to help companies navigate the complex data ecosystem.

Venture capitalist since 1999. Investor in bitcoin and blockchain technology since 2013. Founded Future Perfect Ventures in 2014, seed investor in Blockchain.com; Abra; Blockstream; Bitpesa (now Aza); Polkadot; The Graph. 20+ years in digital media, enterprise software, broadband infrastructure, healthcare IT, edtech, mobile & Internet NYC, Silicon Valley, Boston, India, Africa, Europe.

Jambu previously had several executive roles at Uber, where he was among the first 100 employees of the company globally. From 2012 to 2014, he led Uber’s international expansion in EMEA and India. From 2014 to 2016, he served as Regional General Manager for Uber in Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East and Africa leading a team of 300 as Uber built and scaled its business in that region. From 2016 to 2018, he was Head of Uber Eats in EMEA, building and scaling that business from its inception. Jambu led OMERS Ventures investments in and serves on the boards of Deliverect and ultimate.ai. He is also currently a Non-Executive Director of JustEat Takeaway.

Over the past quarter-century of his investing work with RRE, Jim focused on emerging enterprise technology with special concentration in financial services technology, leading investments in companies like Avant, Nerdwallet, First Performance, Net Abstraction and OnDeck. He has a keen focus on risk management, especially in cyber security and crypto. Prior to founding RRE, Jim is best known for his work as CEO and Chairman of American Express, where he guided the company through many changes from 1977 to 1993. He previously worked in various positions at American Express, White Weld & Co. and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company.

James is the co-founder of Focus Ventures in 1997 whose Fund I still ranks in the Top 10 best performing US funds of all time (Preqin). He was recently highlighted in the upper quartile of the AlwaysOn VC 100 List and was ranked #37 on the Forbes magazine 2011 Midas list of The Top 100 Most Powerful Venture Capitalists.

James Bruegger, the co-founder and CIO of Seraphim, is a prolific venture capitalist investor in the global Space Tech domain. James was the early VC investor in Arqit, Iceye, LeoLabs and D-Orbit and led investments in several companies that went public including Spire Global and AST & Science. Previously, he worked at YFM Equity Partners and Burlington Consultants, a boutique strategy consultancy that was acquired by Deloitte & Touche. James holds a first class degree in History from University College London.

Prior to Valar, James was COO and General Counsel of Peter Thiel’s global parent company, Thiel Capital, where he helped manage Peter’s network of investments and businesses. Prior to joining Thiel Capital, James practiced law for seven years in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

co-founder of Givlet. ex-Research and Development Analyst at Bloomberg.

Focused on games, and has spent his career at the intersection of art, technology, and business.

Founder and Managing Partner at Offline Ventures.

Specialties include China and US healthcare investments.

ex-Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale. ex-Chief Academic Officer at 12+, a not-for-profit organization that partners with urban high schools to empower all students to succeed in education beyond the 12th grade. started his career as a Teach for America corps member and high school math teacher in RI.

James is focused on partnering with founders building fintech and software platforms across industry sectors. He believes that some of the most important insights about a company come from listening intently to customers and marrying that with the founder’s vision of the future.

James established Heavybit as the only fund focused solely on developer company go-to-market. 

Prior to Paypal Ventures, James was a Growth Lead at CashApp and the Global Head of Corporate Development at Square. He was also previously a partner at a16z. James is an experienced operator having worked at companies such as Google and Yahoo.

James Norman is a serial entrepreneur who built his first company at the age of 16, an aftermarket automotive e-commerce site called MJH Sound.com. While previously he may have been known as a visionary in automotive product planning, over the past 7 years in the media and entertainment industry he has become a thought leader in over-the-top media and consumer video consumption behaviors. His latest venture is Pilotly, a consumer insights platform that enables content creators to get feedback from audiences at scale.

Puckett has over 35 years of experience in investment banking, fixed income, M&A, institutional fund formation and management, and C-level public and private company operations

James Wang is General Partner at Creative Ventures, an early stage VC focusing on healthcare, agriculture, and industrial technologies and a co-founder of Lioness Health. Previously, he was on the core investment team at Bridgewater Associates, founded a non-profit consulting firm specializing in microfinance, and did a stint at Google X's Makani project. James holds an MBA from UC Berkeley where he was a Jack Larson Fellow in Entrepreneurship, a BA with Honors from Dartmouth, and an MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He also holds a Data Science Specialization from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed the course track for a PhD Designated Emphasis in Computational Sciences and Engineering at UC Berkeley.

Jamie has been a champion for Colorado startups since 2013. He has invested in over forty companies, recruited over fifty interns to work for Colorado startups, and helped launch Startup Colorado's Rural Initiative in 2018. His journey to GCVF started in a van. He has a background in digital marketing and is a founding partner at Kokopelli Capital, a pre-seed venture fund. Having grown up in Durango as a sixth-generation Rural Coloradoan, he has spent the last four years working to bring the startup revolution to the state's small towns.

Serves as Chairman of Petri, a program co-founded by Pillar VC focused on supporting pre-seed companies attacking the world’s largest problems at the intersection of computation, biology and engineering. Prior to Pillar, Jamie was an investing partner for 18 years at North Bridge Venture Partners.

Jamin is a partner at Altimeter Capital.

Jamul is a Managing Partner and co-founder with extensive experience as a finance professional in investment banking and commodities. Prior to founding 7thirty, he worked in a variety of roles on Wall Street with firms such as Oppenheimer. Jamul leads 7thirty’s investment banking operations.

I founded Emerge Education in response to the lack of capital available for exceptional entrepreneurs in Europe innovating in learning and work.

Janade is an entrepreneur, investment banker, venture capitalist and human behavioural researcher with 18 years’ investment bank, general management and development finance experience. As a Chief Investment Officer at the African Development Bank (AfDB), Janade gained extensive experience having led numerous investments and project finance transactions in Africa. To date, Janade has travelled to 50 of the 54 African countries. Janade is the Founder and Managing Partner of an impact investment fund and two venture capital funds, underpinning his passion for entrepreneurship, development and uplifting communities throughout Africa. He is also the co-founder of a business advisory platform focused on supporting African female entrepreneurs to make their businesses investment ready. He is an Executive Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), currently mentoring select entrepreneurs.

Founded and built legal SaaS app, NextChapter, serving as CEO and Founder for 6 years until it was acquired in September 2019 (while having four kids). Ms. Sickmeyer is a member of various investor groups such as Women in VC, Transact Global, Hustle Fund Angel Squad, The Syndicate, Brava VC Operator's Network, and Backstage Crowd.

Janos is a member of the Academic Board. He founded SuperCharger, one of the most successful FinTech accelerators in Asia with presence in Hong Kong and Malaysia. ​Janos sits on the FinTech advisory board of the Securities & Futures Commission in Hong Kong and was recognized as a “Top-35 Global FinTech leader” by Institutional Investor Magazine.

Jarrid Tingle is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Harlem Capital, a $40mm venture capital firm focused on investing in women and minority founders. Jarrid was featured on the 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 list and 2019 Inc. 30 under 30 list. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 2019 where he was a Baker Scholar (top 5% of class).Previously, Jarrid was a Private Equity Investment Professional at ICV Partners. Prior to ICV, Jarrid was an Investment Banker in the Global Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group at Barclays. Jarrid graduated cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

accomplished entrepreneur with many years of operating experience building technical products for Fortune 500 companies and startups. After leading his own company to acquisition in 2014, Jarrod co-founded Green Egg Ventures to share his operating knowledge with early-stage founders and to support them during the most critical stages of their growing businesses.

Jason is Co-founder & Managing Director of Energy Foundry, where he sets the firm’s vision, leads its investment activities, and advises its entrepreneurs. He is Executive Director of ISEIF, the nation’s largest independent smart grid consumer education fund. Jason is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he teaches energy and cleantech entrepreneurship.

Jason is the founder of Launch, an investment firm that backs seed founders. He is also the host of the This Week in Startups podcast.

Jason is a Managing Partner at Konvoy Ventures, a venture fund investing in early-stage companies in the video gaming industry. Jason and his wife live in Denver, Colorado.

has nearly 20 years experience in the human capital management market as an industry analyst, management consultant, and operating executive. was on the executive leadership team at Cornerstone OnDemand [NASDAQ: CSOD] as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development. often quoted as an industry expert in human capital management and has been featured in leading publications including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. 

I'm passionate about building high-growth, category-defining businesses, and the simple fact that we can conceive and create products and services that improve the everyday lives of everyday people.

Seasoned entrepreneur and investor with special interest in marketplaces, e-commerce, SaaS and businesses with an experiential component. Experience with both enterprise-focused and consumer internet businesses in local, healthcare, education and finance.

Before joining Origin, Jason was a general partner at OCA Ventures Jason started his career as a software engineer and architect for Deloitte Consulting. also led engineering and business teams at 1stUp, a San Francisco-based startup. an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth, where he has taught the venture capital lab class since 2011.

Previously the co-Founder and CEO of Two Way Labs, a studio that brought several “shows” to market in this live, mobile, interactive video format. Founder of Runkeeper, a startup acquired by ASICS.

Jason is a seasoned entrepreneur and emerging venture capitalist with a proven track record of building successful companies like CXOHQ, Mack Supply Co., Modern Magazine, and Occam Strategy Group. In addition to his own entrepreneurial endeavors, he has advised over 200 established and burgeoning companies, driving hundreds of millions in revenue, and nearly $500 million in private equity investments across North America and western Europe.

As Co-founder and Managing Partner at Athenian VC, Jason is raising his first fund to support intrepid entrepreneurs democratizing artificial intelligence at the earliest stages of their entrepreneurial journeys. Beyond his entrepreneurial and venture capital endeavors, Jason is passionate about public service. He serves as a Commissioner on the Human Rights Commission in Somerville, MA, and has previously run for State Representative. Additionally, he holds leadership roles in nonprofit organizations such as the Economic Rights Council and the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, working to drive positive change by fostering creativity, leveraging capital, and emphasizing collaboration among diverse stakeholders.

Jason is a Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Advancit Capital. He also advises management at National Amusements Inc. to help identify emerging technologies that enhance the consumer experience for the company’s brands. Previously, Jason served as a Vice President at The Blackstone Group, a global investment firm. Jason currently serves on the Board of Directors of Known, a modern marketing company that uses data science, strategy and world class creative for top brands. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania where he received a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School with a concentration in Finance. Jason is involved with several charitable organizations and currently serves as a Director of the Board of the Gift of Life.

ex-Deputy Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading postsecondary innovation efforts to improve the outcomes of disadvantaged college students. founded and grew three investor-backed technology and services companies before holding a series of executive positions at Microsoft, SchoolNet, Kaplan, and StraighterLine.

A company builder who played an integral role in the development of one of today’s largest online businesses, Walmart.com, Jason acts as a thought partner, advocate, and counselor to entrepreneurs looking to take their companies from initial proof of product-market fit to industry category leadership. Jason currently serves on the boards of data.world, Lattice, Nextdoor, Zuora (NYSE:ZUO) and several other companies. Jason also led the firm’s investments in companies such as Adometry (acquired by Google), Demdex (acquired by Adobe), Glint (acquired by LinkedIn), Scalyr (acquired by Sentinel One), Steelbrick (acquired by Salesforce), and StrongLoop (acquired by IBM), among others.

Founder & CEO at Zenith Wealth Partners on a mission to resolve wealth inequities. Avid athlete with a passion for health and wellness.

Experienced investor, entrepreneur, event manager, & dancer Aside from being a partner at ANIM Fund, Jason is also the Cofounder of Black Angel Group. Prior to that, he was the head of the Startup Developer Ecosystem at Google.

Founder turned investor. On a mission to help empower others to have the confidence and tools to live a more fulfilling, successful life, however they define it.

Jason has over two decades of experience spanning operations, technology, venture capital, and private equity. Jason is the founder of Consumer Ventures™, a venture capital firm focused on investing in and building emerging consumer brands and companies. Before Consumer Ventures™, Jason was the fund manager at CircleUp in San Francisco, through which he invested in dozens of consumer ventures. Prior to CircleUp, Jason spent over eight years at Winona Capital Management, a consumer-focused private equity firm in Chicago with over $300 million under management. Before Winona, Jason worked at venture capital firm Opus Capital in Silicon Valley and was a founder or early employee at several high-tech start-ups in Denver including BoldTech Systems, a “Deloitte Tech Fast 50” and “Inc. 500” company that was acquired by Perficient (NASDAQ PRFT). Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Jason spent over five years at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he was a project manager and software engineer.

spent more than three years as a Venture and Due Diligence Associate at MicroVentures, where he led research and analysis on Seed to Series B stage investment opportunities.

co-founded Closed Loop Capital Investments, L.P. (“CLCI”), an impact-driven venture fund that capitalized on investment opportunities in agriculture technology and food system innovation

General Partner and Co-Founder at BlueYard Capital.

Jason was on the founding investment team at FirstMark Capital, where he led diligence in the Riot Games Series A raise. He then joined Riot as the company’s first business hire to help launch League of Legends and build out teams that drove publishing, international growth, and Esports over a 9 year period. After leaving Riot, Jason was an active angel investor in the consumer space backing companies such as Highsnobiety, 88 Rising, Italic, and Avant Arte.

spent the decade working at the intersection of technology, financial services, and education. highly motivated problem solver with a passion for creating opportunities for people to grow personally, professionally, and economically.

Co-founder of Tencent

Jay is a co-founder of BrandProject and is based in the New York office. Jay works closely with BrandProject portfolio companies to help build, implement, and hire teams to support their best-in-class direct-to-consumer tech. From building the first version of Freshly’s website in 2014 to completing the tech build-out of PORTA in 2022, Jay has built over a dozen direct-to-consumer sites on various platforms (e.g., Phyton, Ruby, PHP, Shopify, Woo, etc.) at scale in the past decade, making him a leading expert on tech-enabled DTC in the industry. Prior to BrandProject, Jay was the cofounder of Spock.com in 2006, a leading search engine that generated over 100 million searches per month by powering social networks like Friendster, Hi5, Bebo and Tagged.

Jay is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Infinity Ventures. He has had a passion for launching, growing, and investing in businesses since high school. Whether it was running his own lawn care business to help pay for college or investing whatever little money he had in startups in college, he has loved being a part of the entrepreneurial journey. Prior to Infinity, he ran the day-to-day of PayPal Ventures and worked on deals with Olo, Extend, Cameo, Happy Returns, Chargehound, Even, Dosh, Codat, Go-jek, TRM Labs, Paxos, TaxBit, and Talos.

Early-stage company CXO (30+ companies) Corporate / New Business Development: Disney / ESPN, Reed Elsevier, Summa Group

Jay joined AlleyCorp from RRE Ventures, where he served as a partner and remains a strategic advisor. Earlier in his career, Jay was a Managing Director at Brown Brothers Harriman, and previously spent several years in national political campaign management. Jay graduated with a BA from Princeton University and completed the CFA Institute’s Investment Management program at Harvard Business School.

Jay Hirsh is the Managing Partner at Break Trail Ventures.

Jay Patil is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Swell Partners. He attended University of Arizona Eller College of Management.

Experienced operator and investor in financial services and technologies

Jay has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry. Jay was the former president of Atlassian, an award-winning enterprise software company that helps teams collaborate, build software and serve their customers better; more than 43,000 large and small organizations – including Citigroup, eBay, Coca-Cola, Gilt Group, Proctor & Gamble, BMW, and NASA – use Atlassian’s tracking, collaboration, communication, service management, and development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time. He began his career at Plumtree Software where he held a variety of senior marketing and sales roles. Significantly, Jay oversaw the company's expansion throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific. When Plumtree was acquired by BEA Systems in 2005, Jay became vice president of marketing for BEA Systems, which was later acquired by Oracle in 2008.

He is in charge of screening, evaluating, and executing on Cathay investments. Prior to joining Cathay in 2014, Jean-François spent over 2 years as an Analyst in the M&A Department of French banking group Credit Agricole CIB. Deal sectors covered included e-commerce, media, renewable energy, agri-food and mining.

Before CA-CIB, he interned in the Leverage Finance department of BNP Paribas dedicated to European large-cap LBOs, as well as in the small- and mid-cap M&A Group of Credit Agricole (Sodica Corporate Finance).

Jean-Marc is a co-managing partner of Partech International with Philippe Collombel, which he joined in 1996. Jean-Marc has a long track record of successful exits including IPOs with Lannet (GIAN), RadVision (RVSN), ALLOT (ALLT), Buongiorno (BGN.MI), and Alvarion (ALVR) and trade sales with Fluxus (acq. by British Telecom), Digitick (acq. byVivendi), ISDNet (acq. by Cable and Wireless), Jungo (acq. by NTS), Jobpartners (acq. by ORCL) and Apogee (acq. by Colt). Prior to joining Partech, Jean-Marc was a partner at Finovelec, a Paris based venture capital firm and managed Genèse Investissements, the first French seed capital fund. He started his career as an engineer with Cegelec and worked in the Nuclear Power Plant division. He earned an MBA from HEC and an MS in Engineering from SUPELEC both in Paris.

Prior to forming Javelin Venture Partners, Jed was a Managing Director of DFJ Gotham Ventures was the COO of Yamcon, the developer of the highly acclaimed “SkyScout” Founder and COO of Rent Net, the Internet’s first rental and relocation guide & Move.com (acquired)

Jed brings operator, advisor, and investor experience from Seed to Series C rounds. He was the GM of EMEA with Airwallex, a B2B fintech payments unicorn that is backed by investors such as Sequoia and DST Global. Prior to Antler and Airwallex, Jed was CEO at Paymentsense, where he led the fintech startup through a period of rapid growth with EBITDA growing from breakeven to £24m in just three years and to an exit. Prior to Paymentsense, Jed did product management for Microsoft Windows for six years where he focused on B2C, international expansion, and product pilots.

Jeff has been a Partner at Plymouth Growth since 2008 and is involved in all aspects of the firm’s investing activities, from origination to exit. He has led several successful investments in Funds II, III & IV including IDV Solutions, 365 Retail Markets, Kinney Group and Allied Payment Network. Jeff is an experienced finance professional and brings over 20 years of experience to collaborating with Plymouth’s portfolio companies.
Prior to joining Plymouth, Jeff was a Senior Economist at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in Washington, DC where he was responsible for evaluating potential investment opportunities in small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as Fortune 500 companies. Prior to his work with OPIC, Jeff was a management and strategy consultant for ten years with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Stone & Webster Management Consultants, specializing in sell-side privatization transactions in Latin America and Africa.

Jeff is a sales leader and investor. Over a nine-year run at LinkedIn, Jeff held a series of roles launching new business units and leading sales teams to best-in-company performances as the business grew to 770 million members and $10B in revenue. Separately, Jeff launched his own company, Earhoox, scaling it across the globe. He is also an active angel investor focused on health, wealth, and happiness. Before coming to Antler, he was a General Partner at Forum Ventures, focused on early stage B2B SaaS.

Jeff joined AME Cloud Ventures in 2013. Jeff is passionate about empowering big thinkers and frontier technologies. From manufacturing and biology to infrastructure and consumer experiences (including food!), Jeff believes in a world where data and machine intelligence transform every aspect of life. Prior to AME, Jeff invested in growth stage tech companies at Silver Lake. Jeff earned his BS from UC Berkeley and MBA from Harvard. Jeff currently sits on the Board for Savioke, which deploys autonomous service robots.

Jeff Clavier is Founder and Managing Partner at Uncork Capital, a seed-stage venture firm in Palo Alto and San Francisco. He founded Uncork Capital in 2004 (then called SoftTech VC) to provide active support and capital for companies in their first 18 months of life. Jeff has helped numerous companies reach successful outcomes, including Fitbit (NYSE:FIT); Sendgrid (NYSE:SEND, Twilio); Eventbrite (NYSE:EB); Postmates (Uber); Poshmark (NASD:POSH). His current investments include ClassDojo, Vidyard, Shippo, Front, Usergems and MakersPlace.

Focuses on investments in the internet, consumer, and software arenas. One of three managing partners responsible for the firm, which has 21 investment partners and more than $12.5 billion in capital under management. Currently serves on the boards of Abodu, Button, Common, Extole, Homeward, HoneyBook, ICON, Learn to Win, Madison Reed, Minted, Nanopath, Praxis Labs, tvScientific, and Wisq.

Jeff is co-founder and partner at Craft. He has been a successful tech entrepreneur and investor for two decades. He dropped out of school and co-founded StubHub in March 2000. By 2007, StubHub had over 400 employees, more than $600 million of gross merchandise volume and partnerships with many professional and college sports teams. Jeff served as CEO of StubHub until it was acquired by eBay for $310 million in 2007. Jeff also created Spreecast, a social video platform, that ceased operations in 2016. Jeff began his career working for the Blackstone Group in New York and Thomas Weisel Partners in San Francisco.

Jeff has been an entrepreneur, executive and venture capitalist for over 25 years. Jeff has founded or co-founded numerous companies and has had the good fortune to have been surrounded by brilliant co-founders and executives.  Jeff had a successful run as a software CEO early in his career and realized his competitive advantage was in a boardroom and as an investor rather than as an executive. Some of Jeff’s notable investments include: SoFi (IPO), Figure Technologies, Bold.co, Algety (acquired by Corvis), Broadsoft (IPO, then acquired by Cisco), Compellent (IPO, then acquired by Dell), enStratius (acquired by Dell), IPCell (acquired by Cisco), iTKO (acquired by CA), Lockpath (acquired by Navex), NetCentrex (acquired by Comverse), NuSpeed (acquired by Cisco), Sistina (acquired by Redhat) and SportsEngine (acquired by NBC/Comcast).

Has been a co-founder and managing director at Insight Partners since 1995. Jeff's areas of focus include data, analytics, mobile, and infrastructure and SaaS software in Europe, North America, and Israel. Jeff has invested in more than 150 companies, notably nCino (NCNO), JFrog (FROG), Alteryx (AYX), AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Shutterstock (SSTK), TeamViewer (acquired by Permira), WIX (WIX), and Greenfield Online (SRVY, later acquired by Microsoft). Prior to founding Insight, Jeff worked at Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs. Jeff graduated from M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania.

Jeff Kearl previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Stance. He previously Co-founded Precedent Investments in 2012. He previously served as a Venture Partner at Zetta Venture Partners. He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Arteis, Inc. Hepreviously served as Director of Strategy and New Ventures for Hewlett Packard. Jeff previously worked as an Associate at vSpring Capital. Jeff founded Freeport.com, Inc. and served as its Vice President of Business Development & Product Marketing. He served as the Chairman of Skullcandy, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKUL) from 2005 to 2013. He is currently on the board of directors of Scopely, Just Water and Domo (NASDAQ: DOMO).

Jeff is the head of the Lytical Ventures investment committee as well as the funds anchor investor. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyrical Partners which with its affiliates, invests in and manages over $10 billion in private equity, real estate, traditional equity, venture and hedge funds.

Investor. Believer in the power of technology to do good. And to do harm. Nets fan from the beginning. Jersey boy. Defender of the ocean. Proud water polo and soccer dad. Weekend gardener. Friend of all sentient beings. Deeply comfortable in silence. Jeff has spent the last 24 years at Insight Partners, where he has seen the enormous power of people and ideas, and their ability to disrupt the world. He has worked to help scale Insight, the world’s largest growth-oriented software investment firm.  He serves on the board of numerous private and public companies in both consumer internet and software. He has led investments in leading companies such as Qualtrics, DeliveryHero, HelloFresh, Cvent, Mimecast and Udemy. Jeff has received numerous industry awards including being selected by AlwaysOn as a Venture Capital 100 winner, by Forbes as a member of the Midas List, and by GrowthCap as a top 5 software investor. 

He was a seed investor in Dapper Labs, Compound Finance, The Graph, Dharma Labs (acq. OpenSea), Blockfolio (acq. FTX). Morris was previously the VP of Product, Revenue at Tinder.

prides himself in his "founder-focused, investor-driven" approach to investing. ex-Managing Director and Market Executive of Merrill Lynch and in charge of the bank's Southeast Wealth Management Division

Focuses on enterprise/cloud and marketplace investments, and led GGV’s investments in Appirio (acq by Wipro), Belong, BigCommerce (NASDAQ: BIGC), BlueKai (acq by Oracle), Boxed, Brightwheel, Buddy Media (acq by Salesforce), Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Electric.ai, Evolv OnDemand (acq by Cornerstone), Gladly, Handshake, HotelTonight (acq by Airbnb), Lambda School, Mindee, Namely, People.ai, PlushCare/Accolade (NASDAQ: ACCD), Slice, Tala, Tile, Vic.ai, Workboard, and Zylo. Prior to joining GGV, Jeff founded two software companies: R4, a supply chain SaaS business acquired by VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), and QuantumShift, a telecom software business backed by Texas Pacific Group (TPG).

Jeff spent the first 20 years of his career as an operator on a quest for ways in which his work could have a positive impact on the world around him. That journey began at Capital One (NYSE: COF), where he spent over a decade leading data science and analytics teams across the organization. In his last role, Jeff was VP of Marketing Strategy for US Card where he oversaw a high nine-figure marketing budget across all online and offline marketing channels. Jeff first met the City Light team while at 2U. City Light was the first outside investor in 2U and believed in the business at a time when it might have seemed crazy to do so. They never wavered in their support and, in 2U, you can see City Light’s thesis of investing in category-defining companies whose impact scales as they scale, truly come to life.

Specializes in long-term investments.

Executive Chairman @LinkedIn, founding partner @NextPlayVC, founding LP at Concrete Rose Capital, founder of The Compassion Project.

Managing Partner at Skyview Capital, where he has been actively involved with all M&A efforts at Skyview Capital since its inception.

Jeffrey Lapin, 58, is the President of Tech Coast Angels Los Angeles. He has invested in over 20 start up companies, and serves on many company boards. He also advises several companies.

lauded entrepreneur with successes in the technology, music & entertainment, finance, and human capital industries.  co-founded TigerText the first controlled and impermanent mobile communication company grew OnStaff from a $5,000,000, 3-office local staffing firm to a $100 million revenue national player with 40 offices in major cities throughout the country  has served on the President's Commission for White House Fellows, and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization.

Jeffrey is an entertainment industry executive and entrepreneur, who throughout his career has repeatedly reshaped the media landscape. He led WndrCo’s investments in Airtable, Frame.io, Quibi, Vise, Placer.ai, NexHealth, Deel, and ID.me.