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Jake Dwyer

Founder - Factor Capital

Charlottesville, Virginia

Work Experience

  • Founder

    2023

    Factor invests in blockchain-enabled businesses and technologies.

2021 - 2023

  • Managing Director

    2021 - 2023

    GSR provides an array of financial services to some of the most impactful businesses in the digital asset ecosystem. Formally established and led GSR’s venture investing activities to deploy $50m+ per year into exciting businesses in web3/crypto/blockchain industry. Additionally led the buildout of GSR's blockchain engineering platform.

2017 - 2021

  • SVP - GM of Venn

    2017 - 2021

    GM of Venn, a SaaS platform for quantitative investment analysis. Venn applied Two Sigma's quantitative research to enable over 1,000 institutional asset allocators to leverage data to make smarter investment decisions.

2014 - 2021

  • Advisor

    2014 - 2021

  • COO

    2015 - 2016

    Enterprise AI startup working with Fortune 500 businesses and government agencies to apply machine learning to drive efficiency and capitalize on untapped revenue opportunities from their data. Backed by leading VCs, including Tiger Global, Bessemer, Firstmark, Bond and others.

2014 - 2015

  • Business Development & Operations

    2014 - 2015

    Led operations, overseeing the labor supply side of Handy's home service marketplace and partnership efforts to expand the Handy platform.

2013 - 2014

  • VP Partnerships & Business Development

    2013 - 2014

    Led initial efforts to build out the Insightly partner and integrations ecosystem for leading CRM and productivity platform focused on the SMB market.

2010 - 2012

  • CEO

    2011 - 2012

    Instinctiv created technology powering content recommendations, audio fingerprinting and P2P, wireless content distribution networks for personal audio content on any mobile device. Acquired by SoundCloud.

  • VP Business Development

    2010 - 2011

2003 - 2008

  • Vice President - Equity Trading

    2005 - 2008

    Specific focus on companies in Media, Technology and Retail sectors

  • Vice President - Equity Derivatives

    2005 - 2005

    Led digital overhaul of secondary market trading of convertible bonds and structured equity derivatives, including product development of a new online trading system and marketing site to deliver real time quotes on OTC products.

  • Equity Derivatives Analyst

    2003 - 2005