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Jared Katzen

Mentor at Techstars

New York, New York

Overview 

Jared Katzen is a Venture Investor at Blumberg Capital in New York, specializing in investing in Series A and Seed stage startups in sectors like TransportationTech and Consumer Health. With a background as a Senior Associate at Blumberg Capital and experience as a Board Observer for various companies, Jared has demonstrated expertise in project management, leadership, and strategic investment decisions. Notable highlights of Jared's career include serving as a mentor at Techstars and making strategic investment decisions in companies like Contabilizei and Banner Technologies, showcasing a strong track record of supporting and guiding startups to success.

Work Experience 

  • Senior Associate

    2023 - Current

    Board Observer / Investor at: Trulioo, Angle Health, FundGuard, Pipe17, Hydrolix Supporting Investments in: Addepar, Fundbox, Hootsuite, Lendio Formerly: SupplyPike (acq. by NAS: SPSC), EasyKnock

Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm.

  • Investor

    2025

Hydrolix is a data management company that specializes in providing solutions for storing, managing, and analyzing large-scale data.

Raised $65,000,000.00 from Oregon Venture Fund, Wing Venture Capital, S3 Ventures, AV8 Ventures and Nava Ventures.

  • Investor

    2025

  • Board Observer

    2024

  • Board Observer

    2023

Angle Health delivers the modern health insurance experience expected by today's employees.

Raised $62,000,000.00 from TSVC, Aloft VC, Correlation Ventures, Portage Ventures, Y Combinator, Launchbay Capital, Wormhole Capital, Wing Venture Capital, SixThirty and Blumberg Capital.

  • Board Observer

    2023

FundGuard is an artificial intelligence-powered and cloud native investment accounting operating system.

Raised $156,000,000.00 from Hamilton Lane, Blumberg Capital, Team8, Euclidean Capital and Key 1 Capital.

  • Mentor

    2023

Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.

Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.

  • Board Observer

    2023 - 2024

    SupplyPike was acquired by SPS Commerce (NAS: SPSC)

SupplyPike is a software company that provides retail analytic software for CPG brands.

Raised $25,000,000.00 from Blumberg Capital, Frontier Growth and Noro-Moseley Partners.

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

Banner provides an operating system that helps CRE owners deliver projects on-time and on-budget.

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