Bruce Jaffe
General Partner @ J4.Ventures
Seattle, United States
Bruce Jaffe is a seed investor at J4.Ventures in Seattle focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Jaffe has been a director of RealNetworks since October 2015. He is currently a consultant and investor with Three Point Group, LLC, which he founded in 2008 and which focuses on early stage and growth technology companies. Mr. Jaffe served as Chief Financial Officer and EVP Corporate Development of Glam Media, a privately held media company,from May 2010 to December 2011. From June 1995 through February 2008, Mr. Jaffe held various positions at Microsoft Corporation, most recently serving as its Corporate Vice President, Corporate Development. Mr. Jaffe serves as a director of several privately held companies. Mr. Jaffe holds a B.S. degree from UC Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Bruce Jaffe invests in
Stages Bruce Jaffe invests in
Countries Bruce Jaffe invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.3M–$9.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $410k–$2.3M
- Series A
- $1.8M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 4 (40%)
- FinTech 3 (30%)
- Consulting 2 (20%)
- E-Commerce 2 (20%)
- Communities 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (30%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Convertible Note 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 7 (70%)
- India 1 (10%)
- Colombia 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Tough Day enables companies to provide employees with a safe place for candid conversation and expert guidance to resolve their workplace issues before they become messy, costly problems.When work gets tough, the tough get working. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2025 | ||
| Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Feb 29, 2024 | ||
Upwage
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Our mission is to create $1 trillion in new wealth for the 44% of Americans who make less than $16/hr, using the power of big data & AI. | $7.3M / Seed / Jul 01, 2023 | |
| LearnLux is a digital, independent financial, and benefits education platform. It provides unbiased, customized financial education to better the way people make financial decisions. For partners, LearnLux empowers employers to offer financial wellness as a benefit. | $10M / Series A / Sep 29, 2022 | ||
| Nectar provides experienced real estate professionals with a better way to finance their companies. | Seed / Mar 22, 2022 | ||
| Round is a community of technology executives and senior leaders that support, grow, mentor, and learn from each other. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. | $9.1M / Seed / Feb 23, 2022 | ||
| Dara.network connects changemakers and institutions to catalyze creative collaborations across borders. Dara catalyzes authentic, face-to-face video-first communications.Dara is supported by a grant from the British Council’s Open Call for Digital Arts program which strives to facilitate innovative cultural and artistic connections between the UKand India using digital technology. | $410K / Pre-Seed / Jan 22, 2022 | ||
| Dondo helps ecommerce merchants improve product listings for SEO and AI search. It drafts product copy and creates studio and lifestyle images from existing product photos. Merchants choose the products to improve, review the generated drafts, then publish approved changes to supported connected stores. Social content is prepared as drafts for review. | $2.3M / Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| Ruby Money creates financial technology tools to aid solitary entrepreneurs in reaching financial independence. Its platform automates back-office duties like estimating, paying taxes, obtaining benefits, and saving for retirement. | Convertible Note / Dec 23, 2021 | ||
| ModeWalk is a fashion website for women, providing wardrobe stylist services and advice. It offers free access to the wardrobe stylist services that were until now only available to the very wealthy. By combining the personalization and expert advice of personal shoppers with the efficiency of the Internet, ModeWalk empowers a network of personalwardrobe stylists to use data and its proprietary technology to create online selections, serve individual clients, and earn commissions from the resulting sales.The company's marketplace platform and tools tremendously enhance a stylist's productivity, by replacing her "little black book." Stylists can filter a catalog and create outfits to email to each client. The client can thumb up or down, share feedback, or shop directly. | $1.8M / Series A / Jan 25, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About J4.Ventures
Early stage technology and technology enabled businesses
J4.Ventures Contacts
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Bruce Jaffe
General Partner
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Jamie Rapperport
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Bruce Jaffe invest in?
Bruce Jaffe invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Consulting startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Bruce Jaffe invest in?
Bruce Jaffe typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$9.1M at Seed, $410k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $1.8M–$10M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Bruce Jaffe's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Bruce Jaffe took part in.
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When did Bruce Jaffe last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bruce Jaffe closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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