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Jack Statza

Partner, AI and Blockchain Funds at Alumni Ventures

Greater Chicago Area

Overview 

Jack Statza is a Partner at Alumni Ventures specializing in AI and Blockchain Funds in the Greater Chicago Area. With a background in investment banking and extensive experience in portfolio management, he has successfully navigated roles at top financial institutions and leverages skills in valuation, financial modeling, and due diligence to make strategic investment decisions. Highlights of Jack's career include his progression from Investment Banking Associate at Lazard to Partner at Alumni Ventures, focusing on cutting-edge sectors like AI and Blockchain. His expertise in financial analysis and portfolio management has been instrumental in his current role leading investments in Series A and Seed stages within sectors like Gaming/eSports and Web3/Crypto.

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.

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