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Jon Layman

COO at AxonPrime

Miami, Florida

Overview 

Jon Layman is a Venture Capital expert currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Director at AxonPrime Infrastructure Acquisition Corporation. With a background as a Partner at Hogan Lovells and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Layman has extensive experience in strategic advising and board memberships across various industries such as EnergyTech and BioTech. Layman's career highlights include his roles as a General Partner at Prime Movers Lab and serving as a Director at Heliogen and Vaxxinity, showcasing his expertise in venture capital investments and strategic leadership within high-growth companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Chief Legal Officer

    2025 - Current

  • Managing Director

    2022 - 2024

    Strategic and legal advisory services

  • Chief Legal Officer and Head of Operations

    2024 - 2024

  • General Partner and General Counsel

    2021 - 2022

Prime Movers Lab invests in startups reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture.

  • Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Director

    2021 - 2022

  • Director

    2021 - 2022

Focused Energy is a laser fusion startup dedicated to developing fusion as a means of generating clean alternative energy.

Raised $79,000,000.00 from VCP, Tony Florence and Prime Movers Lab.

  • Director

    2021 - 2021

Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.

Raised $332,550,000.00 from ArcelorMittal, Saba Capital Management, Counterpoint Global and Salient Partners.

  • Director

    2021 - 2021

Vaxxinity is a biotechnology company that enables the innovation of synthetic peptide vaccines to prevent or treat infectious diseases.

Raised $9,250,000.00 from Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.

  • Partner

    2010 - 2021

    At Hogan, I continued to work with technology and life sciences companies, entrepreneurs and investors but with the resources and expertise of a global platform. At Hogan, I offered my clients proven experience in key industries along with practice breadth and geographical reach to proactively protect their business interests and achieve their desired outcomes.

Hogan Lovells is a London-based multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.

  • Partner

    1996 - 2010

    At Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR), I advised hundreds of technology and life sciences companies and entrepreneurs. I built relationships with founders with exciting ideas and helped them navigate from start up through raising capital to eventually getting liquidity through an IPO or acquisition. I also represented public companies on securities offerings, corporate governance and complex securities matters, and I represented private companies and venture capital and private equity firms on investments and other transactions

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati provides legal services for technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises.

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