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Allan Jean-baptiste

Managing Partner at Ansa Capital

United States

Overview 

Allan Jean-Baptiste is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Ansa, with a background in investment banking and private equity. He has made significant investments in companies like AI Squared, Slice, and Policygenius, focusing on sectors such as messaging, social networks, and health services. With a degree in Economics from Harvard University and experience at KKR & Co. L.P., Allan has a strong track record in venture capital and growth equity, serving on boards and as an observer for companies like Slice, Policygenius Inc., and Renaissance Learning.

Work Experience 

  • Board Observer

    2025 - Current

  • Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    2022

Ansa Capital supports founders in expansion and focus is on new markets, innovative distribution, and modernizing legacy systems.

  • Board Member

    2024

Selector is a software company that provides AIOps platform for operational intelligence.

Raised $66,000,000.00 from Two Bear Capital, Ansa Capital, Hyperlink Ventures, AT&T Ventures, Bell Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, SineWave Ventures and Singtel Innov8.

  • Board Member

    2024

AI Squared develops an AI integration platform that helps organizations deliver data and AI insights into business applications.

Raised $19,800,000.00 from Ridgeline, New Enterprise Associates, Roger Ferguson, Ansa Capital and Latimer Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2024

Conduktor is an Apache Kafka enterprise platform, most famous for its Kafka desktop application

Raised $52,000,000.00 from RTP Global, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Accel and Ansa Capital.

  • Investor

    2024

Bland AI is the infrastructure for building AI phone-calling applications at scale.

Raised $16,000,000.00 from Cameron Ventures, Y Combinator, Scale Venture Partners, Jeff Lawson, Max Levchin, Upfront Ventures and Piotr Dabkowski.

  • Fellow, Class 23

    2018

Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2022

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2022

ForgeRock is a multinational software company that develops commercial open-source identity and access management products.

Raised $233,665,000.00 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Accel, Foundation Capital, Riverwood Capital and Meritech Capital Partners.

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