Jack Taylor
Managing Director at Touchdown Ventures
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Touchdown Ventures merged with Cerity Partners in September 2024. https://ceritypartners.com/news/cerity-partners-welcomes-touchdown-ventures/
Managing Director at Touchdown Ventures
2024 - 2024
Director at Touchdown Ventures
2023 - 2024
Principal at Touchdown Ventures
2020 - 2023
Multi-stage investor in high-growth security, enterprise software, proptech, AI/ML, and IoT companies based in North America, Europe, and Israel. Investments include Pindrop, Robin, HqO, Openpath (acquired by Motorola), VergeSense, Kasa, Mint House, Mapped (Board Visitor)
Senior Associate at Touchdown Ventures
2017 - 2020
Board Observer
2023
Robin is a flexible workplace platform that connects people with rooms, desks, and others.
Raised $59,100,000.00 from Atlassian Ventures.
President, Philadelphia
2015 - 2017
The InSITE Fellowship is a highly competitive leadership development program comprised of exceptional graduate students at top universities. InSITE Fellows and alumni make up a global network of entrepreneurs and leaders in technology and venture capital. To date, InSITE companies have raised more than $500 million of disclosed funding and have enjoyed many successful exits. Past projects include: Quickframe (https://www.quickframe.com/) STRIVR Labs (http://www.strivrlabs.com/)
A highly competitive leadership development program comprised of exceptional graduate students at top universities
MBA Intern
2016 - 2016
Personal Capital is a financial technology company backed by IVP and Venrock; it was acquired by Empower for $1B in 2020 I spent the summer between my 1st and 2nd year of business school focused on: • Creating a mobile marketing strategy playbook by leveraging product features, market analysis, and internal benchmarks. • Developing a business case for 3 new consumer financial product verticals, identifying TAM, financial and non-financial benefits, regulatory concerns, and cross-sell partners.
Personal Capital combines online financial tools with registered financial advisor expertise to enable people and grow their net worth.
Raised $265,300,000.00 from IGM Financial.
Investment Professional
2015 - 2015
Laconia leads investments in seed stage B2B companies that make existing markets and workflows more efficient • Collaborated with Managing Directors on all due diligence aspects, including sourcing, business plan reviews, industry research, and financial modeling to conduct sensitivity analyses on late seed-stage and Series A investment opportunities. • Closed $2M seed investment in AutoFi, a digital provider of point-of-sale financing for the auto industry
Laconia leads investments in seed-stage B2B companies digitizing legacy industries.
Future Angel
2014 - 2015
Consortium of 100+ individual accredited angel investors focused on investing in early-stage companies. The leading seed investment organization in NYC having invested over $95 million in entrepreneurial ventures.
Investor
2013 - 2015
Virgil Capital is an angel investment and advisory firm focusing on seed and early stage investments in the greater New York City area
Short-Term Markets Analyst
2010 - 2013
• Received top-tier ranking in analyst class each year; promoted to 3rd-year analyst