Jalak Jobanputra
Founder & Managing Partner, Future\Perfect Ventures | Early-stage investor building out the Web3 platform through a focus on blockchain technology, cryptoassets, artificial intelligence, and HCI.
New York, New York
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Lists including Jalak
Investments
Mojito
Total Funding: $20M
Syndicate
Total Funding: $28M
Harbor
Total Funding: $32M
Carbon-12 Labs, Inc.
Total Funding: $2M
Everledger
Total Funding: $21M
Strix Leviathan
Total Funding: $2M
Tokenize Inc.
Total Funding: $6.5M
Token
Total Funding: $7M
Tari Labs
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AZA Finance
Total Funding: $8.7M
Blockchain.com
Total Funding: $600M
Blockchain, Inc.
Total Funding: $70M
Unocoin
Total Funding: $8.8M
Maven Clinic
Total Funding: $290M
Blockstream
Total Funding: $78M
Civic
Total Funding: $3M
Hullabalu
Total Funding: $7M
Knowsy
Total Funding: $2M
Abra
Total Funding: $100M
Ticketfly
Total Funding: $87M
Andela
Total Funding: $380M
Case
Total Funding: $2.3M
BlockCypher
Total Funding: $3.4M
Open Garden
Total Funding: $11M
Seen
Total Funding: $1.6M
Fuisz Video, Inc.
Total Funding: $12M
Fusemachines
Total Funding: $1M
Viridis Learning
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VirtualU
Total Funding: $630K
FreshPay
Total Funding: $500K
The Muse
Total Funding: $29M
Kanjoya
Total Funding: $8.9M
Outside.in
Total Funding: $15M
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2014
Early stage venture capital fund focused on decentralization, including the convergence of blockchain tech, machine learning, IoT and security. Portfolio includes Abra, Blockstream, Blockchain.com, Bitpesa, Civic, The Graph, Transparent Systems, Celo and Curio.
2011
Advisory Board, Women in Digital
2011
2022 - 2023
Independent Board Director
2022 - 2023
2011 - 2021
Board of Directors
2011 - 2021
2012 - 2012
Managing Director
2012 - 2012
Founding Partner of $120M technology venture fund in NYC
2010 - 2012
Director
2010 - 2012
Managing global investments in mobile technologies, services and applications for Omidyar Network.
2007 - 2010
Senior Vice President
2007 - 2010
Principal investor in NYC early stage startups in the digital media, Internet and software sectors. Spearheaded formation of NYCSeed (www.nycseed.com) and the Fintech Innovation Lab.
2004 - 2007
Principal
2004 - 2007
Specialized in incubation and spinout of technology companies at Fortune 100 companies. Board Director at Procelerate and Real Time Content. Incubations included online video advertising and search, NLP/speech recognition, recommendation engines, digital music, enterprise software 3D displays, wireless broadband.
2003 - 2004
President
2003 - 2004
Sales, marketing and business development consultant for early stage software, web, medical device and biotech entrepreneurs.
1999 - 2003
Strategic Investment Manager
1999 - 2003
Principal investor in early-mid stage startups in enterprise software, digital media and Internet. Exits include Extricity (sold to Peregrine), Demantra (sold to Oracle) and Viacore (sold to IBM). Other portfolio companies include Zinio (digital publishing), Yodlee and Sportsvision. Negotiated strategic relationships with Intel business units.