Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$15,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Skills
Lists including Jonathan
Investments
CloseFactor
Total Funding: $20M
Metaview
Total Funding: $13M
Elotl
Total Funding: $5M
Vintra
Total Funding: $14M
VGS
Total Funding: $110M
LaunchDarkly
Total Funding: $330M
PerimeterX
Total Funding: $150M
Very Good Security
Total Funding: $8.5M
Desktop Metal
Total Funding: $490M
SpaceIQ
Total Funding: $9M
Work Experience
2015
General Partner
2015
Vertex Ventures US (VVUS) is a boutique venture firm focused on making Seed and Series A investments in the areas we know best: software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, and vertical SaaS. We’re fans of open-source software, active supporters of developer communities and builder groups, and fluent in the finer points of AI. As former founders and operators ourselves, our mission is to give the best technical founders the personalized support they need to become the next generation of market leaders.
2025
Board Member
2025
Building the infrastructure for AGI. Flux designs and manufactures optical processors to train and run inference on large AI models.
2024
Board Member
2024
Making Identity Governance a cakewalk.
Trustee
2024
Co-Chair Collectors' Forum; Painting & Sculpture Accessions Committee; Attending Art Fairs
2021
Board Member
2021
Metaview is the anti-toil company. Toil is the force that opposes progress — it is to progress as friction is to motion. Our answer to toil is Human-Computer Symbiosis. We're building the AI copilot that will fundamentally change how hiring gets done.
2021
Board Member
2021
Elotl's Nodeless Kubernetes enables you to run applications on public cloud in a secure, simple, cost-effective, cloud-agnostic manner without managing servers or clusters.
2020
Board Member
2020
OpsLevel is the leading internal developer portal designed to help engineering teams build, ship, and maintain software better than ever. We believe that developer portals are the linchpin to a successful developer experience. With customers like Duolingo, Sotheby's, Keller Williams, and Hootsuite, we know that the best businesses in the world prioritize a great developer experience in order to beat the competition.
2020
Advisory Committee
2020
2019
Board Member
2019
Loris is an intelligence layer that helps customer teams successfully increase effective digital support – like messaging, SMS, and live chat – so they can lower costs while better serving customers who expect quality support anytime, anywhere they want to reach out.
2019
Trustee
2019
The Exploratorium is a portal to the astonishing scientific phenomena that animate our world and shape our actions. Hailed by The New York Times Magazine as “one of the ten coolest museums in the world,” the Exploratorium is the global leader in science education and informal learning, designed to ignite curiosity and inspire creativity in people of all ages. It is a STEAM institution, an educational facility, and a community center.