Jason Freedman
General Partner at Orange Collective
Danville, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2023 - Current
Orange Collective is a Y Combinator focused venture fund, backed by some of the most prominent venture investors around the world and 150+ top Y Combinator alumni. We invest pre-Demo Day in the most promising startups in each YC batch. Accredited investors are welcome to reach out to learn more about the fund and opportunities for LP direct investing.
Board Member
2021
Led the $44M Series B into the now national leader in build-to-rent construction. Proud to back a generational company that has solved the affordability problem of building single family homes by being the first to deploy AI into construction at scale.
Mosaic is a a tech-enabled general contractor for the residential development industry.
Raised $68,750,000.00 from Bossa Invest, Andreessen Horowitz, Innovation Endeavors, invisionAZ, Tekfen Ventures, Starwood Capital Group, Founders Fund, Peak State Ventures, Building Ventures and Brightstone Venture Capital.
General Partner
2018 - 2024
Led Peak State's Proptech venture platform before moving to a Emeritus position. Proud investor in Unicorns: Snapdocs, Ironclad, Moonvalley Successful Exits: Raise, Fieldwire, Direct Shifts, Laskie And High Growth Companies: Mosaic, Steadily, Scratchpad, Doppler
Peak State Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in the Future of Work
Co-Founder
2011 - 2018
Founder and CEO of the top commercial real estate search engine in Y Combinator's 2012 batch. Raised through Series B from top investors like Thrive, NEA, Bessemer, YC. Served millions of users. Led it to a successful exit to JLL.
42Floors makes it easy to search for office space.
Raised $17,400,000.00 from Thrive Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Columbus Nova Technology Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Application Reviewer and Startup School Mentor for Y Combinator
2010 - 2017
Read 8000 applications for Y Combinator and often ranked in top 3 of all alumni reviewers. Number one lesson I learned from Paul Graham during this process - invest 100% in the potential of the founder and avoid judging their product, since that will change. What to look for in a founder? Those that learn from their users, are solving their own problem, clearly smart enough to build, and most importantly, seem like they will never give up. Volunteered as mentor for YC's startup school, working with 40 companies per batch.
Co-Founder, CEO
2009 - 2011
Founder and CEO of Flightcaster - a real time travel analytics startup. Funded in Y Combinator's 2009 batch and went on to raise from Sherpalo Ventures (Ram Shriram) and Tandem. Exited to Next Jump in 2011.
Co-Founder, CEO
2007 - 2009
Everyone has their first startup...this was mine. From the days of Facebook app shenanigans, it briefly served a few hundred thousand users who all then churned. Shutting down this tiny startup hurt, but it gave me a chip on my shoulder to never fail again.