A private briefing from Javelin Venture Partners, a venture capital fund seeded by Jim Simons. This is the first time that the company is accepting external capital.
Javelin Venture Partners Fund V Early Stage Venture Opportunity
Alex is a Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners looking for disruptive opportunities across a variety of sectors, including online marketplaces, e-commerce, AI, fintech, and SaaS. He sits on the boards of Charma, MasterClass, Mythical Games, Pair Eyewear, Rinse, Sequel.io, Stensul, and Wethos. Alex sourced and is a board observer at Thumbtack, and led Javelin’s investments in Clutter, OctaneAI, and Viable.
Alex holds an MBA from the Stanford GSB, and a B.S/B.A./M.S. from Stanford University, where he was also a Mayfield Fellow. After undergrad, Alex was the first employee at ooma (NYSE: OOMA), a venture-backed company in the Voice-over-IP space.
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Javelin Ventures
Alex Gurevich
Javelin Venture Partners Fund V Early Stage Venture Opportunity
Javelin Venture Partners is an early stage venture firm founded by serial entrepreneurs that backs category-defining technology companies with its distinctive Signal Before Traction investment model. The Javelin team collectively co-founded and led iconic companies with billions in revenues and exit value and seeks to align with founders on their journeys to build outlier businesses. Javelin's portfolio includes Thumbtack, Masterclass, Carbon Health, SmartAsset, Niantic, Homeward, Mythical Games, Pair Eyewear (Fund V company) and more. With a focus on high margin, capital efficient companies in the SaaS, Consumer Internet, Digital Media, Fintech and Proptech sectors and over $500M in AUM, Javelin has opened its $125M Fund V to new investors for the first time. Fund V is over 70% closed with anchors the Simons family of Renaissance Technologies as well as Blackstone (new in this fund) and other prominent family offices and entrepreneurs. Javelin is seeking a select number of additional limited partners to participate in the Fund V final close in Q2 of 2023.
