J. Skyler Fernandes
Co-Founder & General Partner @ VU Venture Partners
New York, United States
J. Skyler Fernandes is a seed investor at VU Venture Partners in New York focused on Health Care and Apps. J. Skyler (Sky) Fernandes is ranked as a Powerlist 100 VC and is the Co-Founder & General Partner of VU Venture Partners, the most scalable venture capital fund in the world, focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Healthcare, Frontier Tech, and Prop Tech, and is the Co-Founder & CEO of Venture University, a trade school for venturecapital, private equity, and angel investing. VU Venture Partners is redefining the value of an investment fund by creating an investment team that is capable of covering markets broader, deeper, faster, and smarter than a typical fund, providing a significantly more powerful network that can better support portfolio companies, and offering greater value to LPs.Previously, Sky was the Managing Director of Investments at Cleveland Avenue, a fund focused on food and beverage brands, food related technology, and new restaurant concepts, co-founded by the former President and CEO of McDonald's.Sky was the Founder, Head, and Managing Director of Simon Venture Group (SVG), the venture capital arm of Simon Property Group, an S&P 100 company, and the largest retail real estate company in the world. CB Insights ranked SVG as a top 5 investor within retail alongside GV(Google Ventures), Intel Capital, and Comcast Ventures and focused on investing in retail technology, rising new brands, and internet of things for smart cities and buildings. Sky has developed key resources, such as "The Best Startup Pitch Deck" (viewed and downloaded 500,000+ times and used by leading accelerators and business schools). Sky also co-founded with his wife the #1 startup and VC board game, "The Next Big Thing: The Game of Entrepreneurship", http://www.nextbigthingboardgame.com/Sky graduated early from New York University (NYU), summa cum laude, due to his studies at Harvard University in Physics and Foreign Policy.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries J. Skyler Fernandes invests in
Stages J. Skyler Fernandes invests in
Countries J. Skyler Fernandes invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 2 (67%)
- Apps 1 (33%)
- Beauty 1 (33%)
- Mobile 1 (33%)
- FinTech 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (33%)
- Series A 1 (33%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (33%)
Country
- United States 2 (67%)
- Japan 1 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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JumpStart Fertility
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Jumpstart Fertility is investigating novel techniques to aid patients in starting or continuing to increase their families, including approaches that address the effects of biological aging on assisted reproduction. We want to increase IVF success rates so that patients need fewer cycles to get a healthy pregnancy. Our research focuses onenhancing egg quality and embryo development in IVF cycles in later age groups, where IVF success rates tend to drop, necessitating repeated rounds under existing standards of care. | $2.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 09, 2025 | |
Fintor
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Fintor’s mission is to democratize real estate investing for all. We are enabling everyone to have access, liquidity, and clarity to the real estate markets that have traditionally been available to a select few. We’ve built Fintor from the ground up to make real estate investing approachable, favorable, and understandable for newcomers and expertsalike. Farshad and Masoud founded the company in 2021. Fintor is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA. | $2.5M / Seed / Apr 20, 2021 | |
Integriculture
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Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $7.4M / Series A / May 25, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About VU Venture Partners
VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital fund focusing on Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech / Blockchain, HealthTech, Frontier Tech, and Real Estate Tech. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
VU Venture Partners Contacts
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J. Skyler Fernandes
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Alessandra Habermann
Senior Associate
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Alfredo Mercedes
Head of Talent
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Andrew Lopez-Gallego
VC Investor
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Arpan Ajmera
Associate
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What does J. Skyler Fernandes invest in?
J. Skyler Fernandes invests primarily in Health Care, Apps and Beauty startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did J. Skyler Fernandes last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for J. Skyler Fernandes closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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