Jack Statza
Partner, AI and Blockchain Funds at Alumni Ventures
Greater Chicago Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner: AI Fund
2024 - Current
Select AI Investments: • Lambda Labs (Series C) • Patlytics (Seed) • Ceramic AI (Seed) • Space and Time (Series A) • Sahara AI (Seed) • Spice AI (Seed) • 0g Labs (Seed) • Theoriq (Seed) • Hyperbolic (Seed) • PIN AI (Seed)
Partner: Blockchain & Fintech Fund
2024 - 2025
Select Blockchain Investments: • 0g Labs (Seed) • Babylon Chain (Seed) - $BABY • Bluesky Social (Series A) • SoSoValue (Seed) – $SOSOVALUE • Transcrypts (Seed) • Sahara AI (Seed) • Space and Time (Series A) - $SXT • PIN AI (Seed) • Playtron (Seed) • Aurora (Seed) – $AURORA • Ava Protocol (Seed) • Autonomys (Series A) • Theoriq (Seed) • Ecosapiens (Seed) • ETHSign (Seed) • Hyperbolic (Seed) • Quai Network (Seed) – $QUAI • Pixelynx (Seed) Select Fintech Investments: • Bitwave (Series A) • Haven (Seed) • Manifest (Series A)
Senior Principal: Blockchain & Fintech Fund
2022 - 2024
Senior Principal: AI Fund
2022 - 2024
Founding Principal: Blockchain & Fintech Fund
2021 - 2022
First hire on the dedicated Blockchain/Web3 investing team at Alumni Ventures. Helped launch and scale the fund from inception, driving sourcing, diligence, and portfolio construction across early-stage crypto, Web3 infrastructure, and decentralized platforms.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital investment firm that manages fund families that invest in a portfolio of companies.
Raised $500,000.00 from Michael Bunning.
Senior Associate
2019 - 2021
Select Investments: • Carpe Data (Series A) (Acquired by Thomas Lee Partners, 30x MOIC) • Accurence (Series A) (Acquired by Next Gear, a portco of Serent Capital, 10x MOIC) • Life360 (Series C) (IPO, 7.5x MOIC) • Ridecell (Series B) (3x MOIC), • Stride Health (Series B) (2.5x MOIC) • Bark (Series B) (2.3x MOIC)
Founding Associate
2016 - 2019
First U.S. hire at Allstate Strategic Ventures, brought on to help build the corporate venture capital arm from the ground up. As a founding team member, played a key role in sourcing, diligence, and portfolio construction for strategic investments across fintech, mobility, AI, blockchain and cybersecurity. Helped shape investment theses, internal processes, and key reporting infrastructure for the fund.
Allstate is an insurance company that offers car, home, and life insurance services.
Raised $500,000,000.00.
Investment Banking Associate
2015 - 2016
Provided sell and buy side M&A advisory services. Company partially acquired by Rothschild & Co.
Livingstone is an international mid-market Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory firm completing 50 to 60 transactions each year.
Investment Banking Associate
2014 - 2014
Summer Associate. Sell side M&A advisory services.
Lazard is a financial advisory and asset management firm focused on income strategies, alternative investments, and private equity funds.
Raised $400,000,000.00.
Valuation Associate
2010 - 2014
Valued illiquid investments for hedge fund, private equity and venture capital clients.
Northern Trust Corporation provides asset management, wealth management, retirement, financial technology & investment management services.