Jalak Jobanputra
Founding Partner @ Future Perfect Ventures
New York, United States
Jalak Jobanputra is a seed investor at Future Perfect Ventures in New York focused on Cryptocurrency and Finance. Jalak Jobanputra is based out of New York and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Future Perfect Ventures. Jala previously worked at Signature Bank as an Independent Board Director. Jalak Jobanputra attended Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Jalak Jobanputra invests in
Stages Jalak Jobanputra invests in
Countries Jalak Jobanputra invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cryptocurrency 9 (23%)
- Finance 7 (18%)
- Software 7 (18%)
- Blockchain 7 (18%)
- Financial Services 6 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (53%)
- Series A 10 (25%)
- Series B 2 (5%)
- Series C 1 (3%)
- Series D 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 25 (63%)
- Kenya 2 (5%)
- United Kingdom 2 (5%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| The all-in-one web3 platform powering brands & creators | $20M / Seed / Oct 21, 2021 | ||
| Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $20M / Series A / Aug 31, 2021 | ||
| Harbor is reengineering private securities with blockchain technology to help usher in a new wave of tokenized securities backed by real-world assets, such as real estate, company equity, investment funds, and fine art. The Harbor platform, powered by its compliance protocol, is the first to ensure tokenized securities comply with existingsecurities laws on every trade, everywhere across the globe. | $28M / Corporate Round / Apr 17, 2018 | ||
| Fiat to Crypto Made Simpler. API-Driven on-ramps to blockchain economy. | $2M / Seed / Apr 12, 2018 | ||
| Everledger is a global technology enterprise specializing in addressing real-world economic, environmental, and societal challenges through their solutions that create ecosystems of trust. It is an ecosystem of trust is where all stakeholders within a network, are able to collaborate through a trusted data protocol. This trust is created throughthe ability to transparently trace and manage assets throughout their lifetime journey, across different touchpoints within the ecosystem.The company's breakthrough solutions harness the latest in emerging technologies including smart contracts, machine vision, and IoT, together with their proven and scalable blockchain-enabled platform. They combine a rich forensic approach to identify and track asset provenance to provide confidence in the transparency driven across global supply chains. This brings disparate stakeholders together with the trust that has been built.Everledger is independently committed to deploying scalable solutions for its clients’ needs today while having the freedom to lead with breakthrough solutions that tackle the challenges they face. | $10.4M / Series A / Mar 23, 2018 | ||
| Strix Leviathan builds a crypto-trading platform for large entities like hedge funds, banks and traditional enterprise companies that don’t want to have to build their own trading infrastructure.Strix Leviathan has built an algorithmic trading platform designed from day one for cryptocurrency markets that executes programmable automated tradingstrategies based on proprietary technical analysis. We are a team of technologists and data scientists applying decades of computing knowledge, cloud and infrastructure experience and entrepreneurial acumen to build something bordering on mythical. | $1.6M / Seed / Mar 15, 2018 | ||
| Token has developed a biometric-based wearable authentication ring that mitigates the primary cause of data breaches and ransomware losses | $5M / Series A / Feb 28, 2018 | ||
| Tari Labs mission is to steward the most useful decentralized platform that empowers anyone to create digitally scarce things people love. | Seed / Feb 20, 2018 | ||
| AZA Finance is a digital foreign exchange and payment platform that leverages blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to and from frontier markets. AZA Group is a market-maker in every major African currency and opens corridors for business payments and trade between frontier markets andthe rest of the world. AZA Group was the first blockchain company to be licensed by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and follows stringent KYC practices. AZA Group services frontier market businesses and multinationals paying suppliers as far as China and UAE, as well as cryptocurrency traders. Our API also enables international remittance companies to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, and the DRC. | Series A / Aug 30, 2017 | ||
| AZA Finance is a global payments and FX fintech. Founded in Nairobi, AZA Finance makes it easier for companies around the world to exchange currencies, make payments, and settle easily in all major African and G20 currencies (including digital currencies). AZA Finance was the first company in the world to trade digital currencies using mobile moneyand the first ever to make a market directly between digital currencies and African currencies. They service frontier market businesses as well as multinational corporates paying partners and suppliers around the world, and works with several of the largest global remittance firms to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Africa. | $6.7M / Series A / Aug 30, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Future Perfect Ventures
Future Perfect Ventures is an early-stage VC firm focused on decentralized technologies including blockchain, crypto, IoT, and AI. The company invests globally with a mission to bring economic opportunities to the underserved on every continent. Future Perfect Ventures partners with mission-driven entrepreneurs who seek to accelerate their ideas through the company's team's international network, passion for inclusive innovation, and decades of domain expertise.
Future Perfect Ventures Contacts
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What does Jalak Jobanputra invest in?
Jalak Jobanputra invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Finance and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Jalak Jobanputra closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 40 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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