JG

Jay Goss

Venture Capitalist + Professional Entrepreneur

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2018

    Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health is the leading U.S. seed stage venture capital fund focused 100% on healthcare. The fund is backed almost exclusively by healthcare LPs - both leading organizations and prominent individual executives - across payers, providers (across the continuum of care), and pharma. This gives the fund a unique advantage with respect to identifying, evaluating and most importantly supporting early-stage healthcare technology companies. Board Member and Board Observer: - Nest Collaborative - Uptime Health - Gradient Health - Tombot - Visual Health Solutions

  • Managing Director

    2016

    Recruited by Chairman to accelerate early stage companies, helping them develop and (more importantly!) execute their go-to-market strategies and raise capital.

2015 - 2018

  • President

    2015 - 2018

    Recruited by founder to pivot and commercialize video-centric mobile training platform. WellCaster was Seed funded by NY-based angel investors.

2016 - 2017

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2016 - 2017

    Recruited by founders to launch new people discovery and mobile messaging app for the millennial market. Company was funded by angel investors in Washington D.C. and India.

2015 - 2017

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2015 - 2017

    Recruited by founders to develop technology and execute go-to-market strategy for Kumba Health. Kumba is a founder-funded early stage healthcare/fintech platform company focused on connecting direct pay patients with quality physicians.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2010 - 2017

    Recruited to develop several businesses for holding company, including Debt.com, Glamping.com and a corporate events business for the Resort at Paws Up. Worked with company from 2010-2012, and then again in 2017.

2012 - 2014

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2012 - 2014

    Recruited by Board and investors to develop and execute growth strategy for then-five-year-old, VC-backed healthcare technology company. The RxVantage platform helps physicians (who collectively control how the half of trillion dollars that Americans spend on prescriptions and other healthcare products are allocated) manage their important relationships with pharmaceutical and other medical manufacturer sales representatives that call on them. Secured contracts with several big pharma companies, including BMS, AstraZeneca and Novartis. RxVantage is funded by Javelin Venture Partners and Slater Technology Fund.

2009 - 2012

  • Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing

    2009 - 2012

    Recruited by co-founders and Board to pivot then-three-year-old mobile company from a consumer-focused content business into a mobile marketing technology provider targeting brands, advertising agencies, media companies and database marketers (adtech). Validated new business model through the acquisition of numerous contracts including Steve Madden, Starwood Hotels, Macy*s, Charlotte Russe, NFL, Jabra, Puma, Entravision, American Greetings, My Gym, ReMax, Valpak, ABC Family, LeapFrog, Jarritos, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CA Technologies and AFLAC. Exit: acquisition by Mobile Messenger/Payvia (later re-branded Outspoken). Mogreet was funded by DFJ Frontier, Ascend Ventures, Black Diamond Ventures and Spyglass Ventures.

2008 - 2009

  • President

    2008 - 2009

    Recruited by investment group in NY to rescue start-up Internet company. Company operated in the deathcare industry, marketing an innovative, immersive social network for those wishing to celebrate, honor and remember the life of a love one that has passed away. The site was monetized through the sale of virtual goods (as a form of condolences). Grew company from a core team of 5 to more than 40. EternalSpace was funded by WindUp.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2004 - 2008

    Recruited by founding team of Caltech scientists to commercialize company's proprietary virtual world technology (then five years old). Edtech company is the leader in virtual worlds, best known for its edu-tainment virtual world property Whyville, which boasts 8+ million registered users (boys and girls between the ages of 8-15). Pioneered new form of in-game, immersive advertising for brands and agencies. Numedeon is funded by angel investors, celebrities and strategic investors (Bankinter). Validated business model by securing prominent clients including: Disney, Toyota/Scion, Getty, Scholastic, An Inconvenient Truth, Centers for Disease Control, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Kajeet Mobile and Virgin Records.