JL

Jaja Liao

Early Stage VC at 25madison

New York, New York

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $30,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $15,250,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2022

  • Partner

    2025

  • Principal

    2022 - 2025

    Select investments: Midi Health (Seed round. Series A GV, Series B Emerson Collective, Series C AVP) Paxton (Pre-seed round. Seed WVV, Series A Unusual) Keragon (Pre-seed w/ Afore. Seed Upfront) ChargeUp (Pre-seed round w/ Neo) Vinesight (Seed w/ Lightbank) Croissant (Seed. Seed+ Third Prime) Clearpol (Seed w/ Vertex) Rebuild (Pre-seed. Seed Gutter) Surveybot (Pre-seed w/ Neo)

  • Board Member

    2024

    appointed by Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine

2018 - 2022

  • Analyst-> Associate-> Senior Associate

    2018 - 2022

    Select investments: Elemy (Series A) Keeper Tax (Series A) Airvet (Series A) Gentrace (Seed) Board observer: CodeSignal Airvet Keeper Tax Gentrace

2018 - 2018

  • Growth Strategy & Ops

    2018 - 2018

2016 - 2018

  • Business Analyst

    2016 - 2018

    Admob/AdX

2016 - 2016

  • Business Development

    2016 - 2016

    10th US hire. pre-ByteDance acquisition. Worked on negotiating deals with music labels. musical.ly is known as TikTok today.

2015 - 2015

  • Early Stage VC

    2015 - 2015

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