Jake Dwyer
Founder - Factor Capital
Charlottesville, Virginia
Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$500,000.00Max Investment:
$2,500,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- DC
- CJ
- IB
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Investments
Work Experience
2023
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