Jane Podbelskaya
Venture Partner at Information Venture Partners
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2025 - Current
Jam is a boutique advisory and strategy firm helping software companies unlock growth through embedded finance. We work with vertical SaaS, marketplaces, and platform businesses to design, implement, and monetize embedded financial services — including payments, lending, card issuing, BaaS, insurance, and more.
Venture Partner
2024 - 2024
Early stage VC investor focused on fintech & saas
Principal
2021 - 2024
Information Venture Partners is a team of experienced venture capital investors specializing in B2B FinTech and Enterprise SaaS for Financial Institutions.
Board Member, Investor
2024 - 2024
Board Member, Investor
2022 - 2024
Board Observer, Investor
2021 - 2024
Board Observer
2021 - 2024
Venture Capital & Growth Equity Investor
2015 - 2020
Georgian is a growth equity fund focused on investing in high growth technology companies that harness the power of data and AI.
Management Consultant
2012 - 2014
Strategy and operations consulting for enterprise clients in financial services industry, mining and telecom sectors
Solutions Architect
2007 - 2011
• Designed and implemented multiple document management, records management and imaging solutions both for external and internal Xerox customers across variety of industries (banking, insurance, retail, mining, telecommunications etc.), including workflow automating solution for Xerox Global Services' largest Business Process Outsourcing account • Imaging service manager: played a key role in the launch of Xerox’s first document imaging center in Canada • Optimized mail and courier distribution for Xerox Canada
Consultant (Business Process Services)
2005 - 2007
• Design of document management and business process automation systems for organizations in various industry sectors (government, education, transportation, etc.) • Product manager for Xerox content management platform DocuShare: launched the platform in the Russian market • Pre-sales support for Xerox Global Services projects
Xerox Financial Services provides workplace and digital printing solutions.
Software engineer
2004 - 2005
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application development - Fine Reader Sprint and Fine Reader Home Edition.
ABBYY reimagines the way people work and accelerates business by delivering the intelligence that fuels automation platforms.
Raised $6,000,000.00 from Marlin Equity Partners.