JP

Jane Podbelskaya

Founder & Managing Partner | Accelerating Growth of Software Companies With Embedded Finance | Recovering VC | Embedded Finance Strategist

Toronto, Ontario

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $3,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2025

    Jam is a boutique advisory and strategy firm helping software companies unlock growth through embedded finance. We work with vertical SaaS, marketplaces, and platform businesses to design, implement, and monetize embedded financial services — including payments, lending, card issuing, BaaS, insurance, and more.

  • Venture Partner

    2024 - 2024

    Early stage VC investor focused on fintech & saas

  • Principal

    2021 - 2024

    Information Venture Partners is a team of experienced venture capital investors specializing in B2B FinTech and Enterprise SaaS for Financial Institutions.

2024 - 2024

  • Board Member, Investor

    2024 - 2024

2022 - 2024

  • Board Member, Investor

    2022 - 2024

2021 - 2024

  • Board Observer, Investor

    2021 - 2024

2021 - 2024

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2024

2015 - 2020

  • Venture Capital & Growth Equity Investor

    2015 - 2020

    Georgian is a growth equity fund focused on investing in high growth technology companies that harness the power of data and AI.

2012 - 2014

  • Management Consultant

    2012 - 2014

    Strategy and operations consulting for enterprise clients in financial services industry, mining and telecom sectors

2005 - 2011

  • Solutions Architect

    2007 - 2011

    • Designed and implemented multiple document management, records management and imaging solutions both for external and internal Xerox customers across variety of industries (banking, insurance, retail, mining, telecommunications etc.), including workflow automating solution for Xerox Global Services' largest Business Process Outsourcing account • Imaging service manager: played a key role in the launch of Xerox’s first document imaging center in Canada • Optimized mail and courier distribution for Xerox Canada

  • Consultant (Business Process Services)

    2005 - 2007

    • Design of document management and business process automation systems for organizations in various industry sectors (government, education, transportation, etc.) • Product manager for Xerox content management platform DocuShare: launched the platform in the Russian market • Pre-sales support for Xerox Global Services projects

2004 - 2005

  • Software engineer

    2004 - 2005

    Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application development - Fine Reader Sprint and Fine Reader Home Edition.