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Jake Dwyer
Founder of Factor Capital
Charlottesville, Virginia
Overview
Jake Dwyer is the Founder of Factor Capital in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a background in quantitative finance and business development. He has held senior positions at GSR, Two Sigma, and Merrill Lynch, and has invested in companies like 0x and Checkr.
Dwyer's career highlights include founding Factor Capital and serving as Managing Director at GSR, showcasing expertise in entrepreneurship and strategic investments in sectors like Web3/Crypto and FinTech.
Work Experience
Founder
2023 - Current
Factor invests in commercial applications of blockchain and crypto.
Managing Director
2021 - 2023
Head of Venture Investing and DeFi
SVP - GM of Venn
2017 - 2021
GM leading the creation of Two Sigma's quantitative analytics platform, Venn, used by over 1,000 institutional asset allocators to leverage data to make smarter investment decisions.
Two Sigma Impact is focused on workforce impact where we anticipate innovative and thoughtful investments in humans.
Advisor
2014 - 2021
COO
2015 - 2016
Hyperscience is an intelligent document-processing platform for enterprises.
Raised $288,879,675.00 from Stripes, Flucas Ventures, Gaingels, Bessemer Venture Partners and Global Founders Capital.
Business Development & Operations
2014 - 2015
Handy, formerly Handybook, is an app through which users can book cleaners, plumbers, handymen, and other household service providers.
Raised $110,728,926.00 from Fidelity, Revolution Growth, AddVenture, Highland Capital Partners, TPG Growth, Revolution and General Catalyst.
VP Partnerships & Business Development
2013 - 2014
Insightly specializes in the fields of CRM, enterprise software, and project management.
Raised $38,000,000.00 from TW Whiteaker, Emergence, Cloud Apps Capital Partners and Sozo Ventures.
CEO
2011 - 2012
Acquired by SoundCloud.
VP Business Development
2010 - 2011
Instinctiv is a music management and discovery app that syncs a user’s entire music library to any desktop computer or mobile phone.
Raised $1,420,698.00 from memBrain.
Vice President - Equity Trading
2005 - 2008
Vice President - Equity Derivatives
2005 - 2005
Equity Derivatives Analyst
2003 - 2005
The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.
Education
BA
1999 - 2003
MBA
2008 - 2010
MBA-Exchange
2009 - 2009
HS
1995 - 1999