JH
Jared Hecht
investor at union square ventures
Brooklyn, New York
Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$2,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Education
- CU
Lists including Jared
Work Experience
2024
Venture Partner
2024
2012 - 2023
Building & Investing
2012 - 2023
Building companies and investing in entrepreneurs we admire. Build: GroupMe, Fundera, Splice, Blade (BLDE) Invest: WISE, Sweetgreen, Truebill, Chess.com, Roam, Flatiron and many more…
2014 - 2022
Co-Founder and CEO
2014 - 2022
Grew to a profitable $100M+ annual revenue business with 1M+ monthly visitors to the marketplace. Acquired by Nerdwallet in 2020.
2010 - 2013
Co-Founder
2010 - 2013
100M+ people have used GroupMe, including 25M MAU and virtually every college student in the country. Acquired by Skype/MSFT in 2011.
2009 - 2010
Business Development
2009 - 2010