Jason Kalira
Partner & Head of Seed Fund at Westly Group
San Francisco, California
Invests in
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Min Investment:
$500,000.00Max Investment:
$4,000,000.00Target Investment:
$2,000,000.00
Skills
Education
(1996 - 2003)
Lists including Jason
Work Experience
2023
Partner & Head of Seed Fund
2023
I lead the $100M Seed Fund for The Westly Group, an early stage venture capital firm founded in 2007 with $800M+ AUM across five funds. We invest in technology entrepreneurs who are transforming the world's largest industries: Industrials, mobility, energy, built environment and the related sectors that account for over 50% of the world’s GDP. The Seed Fund is deployed along side our $312M Core Fund, and as a firm we invest lead checks of $500K-$20M from Pre-Seed to Series C. Our portfolio includes 9 IPOs, 4 multi-billion dollar exits (Tesla, Luminar, Sentinel One, Procore) and is supported by a global network of some of the world's largest companies across our focus areas: - ABB - Alaska Airlines - American Electric Power (AEP) - Audi - Avista Corporation - Bridgestone - China Light & Power - CNH Industrial - Dominion Energy - Duke Energy - ENEOS - Evergy - Geotab - Hitachi Energy - NorthWestern Energy - Oklahoma Gas & Electric - ONEOK - Origin Energy - Oshkosh Corporation - Pennsylvania Power & Light (PPL) - Pinnacle West Corporation - Puget Sound Energy - State Farm Insurance - Tokyo Gas (Acario) - Trane Technologies - Vistra Corp - Vontier - Xylem
2024
Board Member
2024
2023
Board Member
2023
2023
Investor
2023
2022
Investor
2022
2021
Investor
2021
2021
Investor
2021
2021 - 2023
Investor [Acquired]
2021 - 2023
Acquired by Paylocity [Nasdaq: PCTY]
2018 - 2022
Chief Operating Officer
2022 - 2022
Interim CEO & Board Member
2022 - 2022
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Strategy Officer
2018 - 2022
Parsable's Connected Worker Platform is used by the world's largest industrial companies to give frontline workers a digital edge in an increasingly automated world. Founded by veterans of Google, Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle, we're headquartered in San Francisco with offices throughout North America and Europe. We've raised over $133M in funding from investors and partners including Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, First Round Capital, B37 Ventures, Airbus, Saudi Aramco, Honeywell and Cisco.
2016 - 2018
VP Finance & Operations [Acquired]
2016 - 2018
I led all FP&A, fundraising and business operations for BrightFunnel, including an M&A process that resulted in our successful acquisition by Terminus in December 2017