JH

Jared Hecht

investor at union square ventures

Brooklyn, New York

Education

Work Experience

  • Venture Partner

    2024

2012 - 2023

  • Building & Investing

    2012 - 2023

    Building companies and investing in entrepreneurs we admire. Build: GroupMe, Fundera, Splice, Blade (BLDE) Invest: WISE, Sweetgreen, Truebill, Chess.com, Roam, Flatiron and many more…

  • Co-Founder and CEO

    2014 - 2022

    Grew to a profitable $100M+ annual revenue business with 1M+ monthly visitors to the marketplace. Acquired by Nerdwallet in 2020.

  • Co-Founder

    2010 - 2013

    100M+ people have used GroupMe, including 25M MAU and virtually every college student in the country. Acquired by Skype/MSFT in 2011.

2009 - 2010

  • Business Development

    2009 - 2010