JB

Jeff Bussgang

General Partner and Co-Founder, Flybridge Capital Partners; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School

Greater Boston

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner and Co-Founder

    2003

    Seed stage venture capital firm based in Boston and New York City investing in ambitious founders leveraging the power of AI. With over $1 billion under management across seven seed funds and nine network funds, our portfolio includes BetterCloud, BitSight, Chief, Codecademy (acq: SKILL), FalconX, Firebase (acq: GOOG), MadeiraMadeira, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Nasuni, OpenFX, Splice, and ZestAI.

  • Senior Lecturer

    2012

    Teach two second-year MBA classes in the entrepreneurship department: (1) Launching Technology Ventures (LTV), focusing on pre-product-market fit startups; and (2) Venture Capital Journey (VCJ), focusing on building a successful VC career. Authored over 80 HBS cases and teaching notes (a few popular cases include Bubble, Chief, Everlywell, Lightricks, Shippo, and Squire).

  • Managing Partner and Founder

    2016

    A series of micro funds ($20+m in total across four funds) that invests in pre-seed and seed startups founded by recent Harvard graduates, primarily HBS. Portfolio companies include Aerovect, Akooda, Aliro, Allianca Hospitalar, AllSpice, Alpha Vantage, Amartha, Anko, B.A.I., Banyan Infrastructure, BlitzyAI, BoldVoice, Boundless, BoxBot, Clasp, Condor, Connie Health, Coprata, Covalent, Edukita, EmCasa, Fazeshift, Funding Societies, Getaway, Gryps, Habi, Halo Braid, Hardfin, Hemlane, HEVA, Hey Jane, Hive Health, Hue, Laminar, Local Locker, LovePop, Mosaic, Noetica, Noolie, OnRamp, Osmosis, Remento, Ribbon Health, Syrup, Tomorrow.io, Toolbox, TopLine Pro, UpEquity, Visor, Wordsworth, X-COR, and Zubale.

2019

  • Seed Investor

    2019

    FalconX is the largest, most reliable digitalasses prime brokerage for the world's leading institutions. Announced financing led by GIC and Tiger at an $8 billion valuation in 2022.

2021

  • Seed Investor

    2021

    LatAm's first supply chain platform for micro, small, and medium enterprises, empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics, and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations.

2024

  • Seed Investor

    2024

    OpenFX is redefining the future of global money movement. We're revolutizing global finance by enabling monety to flow as effortlessly as data, unbound by time zones, legacy systems, or banking hours. Our FX infrastructure transforms how finance teams operate, delivering cross-border transfers with industry-leading spreads, real-time settlement, and 24/7 availability.

2024

  • Seed Investor

    2024

    Autonomous custom software creation supercharged by Generative AI

2022

  • Seed Investor

    2022

    Noetica enables leading law and financial services firms to distill terms-level data for corporate debt into deal insights.

  • Seed Investor

    2021

    Topline Pro enables service professionals to acquire direct business, faster. Essentially Shopify for service businesses.

2020

  • Board Observer

    2020

    AllSpice develops software tools for electrical engineering teams to accelerate the development of next-generation hardware products. The "Github of Hardware".