Investing Profile

Benjamin Jealous

VCInvestor
Partner at Kapor Capital
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Columbia University in the City of New York Network
116 CONNECTIONS
University of Oxford Network
96 CONNECTIONS
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$100K - $200K
$175K
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$125M
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Curve Health
Series AFeb 2022$12M
$18M
Co-investors: Kristin Baker Spohn (CRV), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Ling Wong (Highbury Group), Kal Vepuri (Brainchild)
EarnUp
Series ADec 2017
SeedJul 2016$3M
$59M
Co-investors: Chris Farmer (SignalFire), Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), David Blumberg (Blumberg Capital), Ilya Kirnos (SignalFire), Tom Brown (Nyca Partners), Chris Gottschalk (Mouro Capital), Raj Date (Fenway Summer), Ryan Falvey (Financial Venture Studio), Kirby Harris (Base Ventures), Trevor Kienzle (Correlation Ventures), Dan Kimerling (Deciens Capital), Sujay Jaswa (WndrCo LLC), Clint Korver (Ulu Ventures), Miriam Rivera (Ulu Ventures), Erik Moore
Citizen
Series ASep 2017$12M
$110M
Co-investors: Will Porteous (RRE Ventures), Jake Medwell (8VC), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Chris Adelsbach (Outrun Ventures), Alex Gurevich (Javelin Venture Partners), Dave Morin (Offline Ventures), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Dana Settle (Greycroft), Bryan Rosenblatt (Craft Ventures), Semil Shah (Haystack), Steve Schlafman, Ken Howery, Mike Vernal
Managing Editor Jackson AdvocatePresent
Executive Director National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)Present
Director, US Domestic Human Rights Program Amnesty InternationalPresent
President and CEO NAACPPresent
Partner Kapor Capital2013 - Present
President Rosenberg Foundation2005 - 2008
University of Oxford MS Comparative Social Research
Columbia University in the City of New York BA Political Science