# Jane Podbelskaya

> Jane Podbelskaya is a Series A investor at Georgian (Toronto) backing SaaS and FinTech. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Georgian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/georgian-partners)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-podbelskaya-841426
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Peppijane
- Website: https://www.georgianpartners.com/

Jane Podbelskaya is a Senior Associate on our Investment Team. She executes due diligence process for new investments, supports deal sourcing, and provides board level support for portfolio companies, with a focus on operational aspects and on financial management, including SaaS metrics and KPIs. In addition, Jane actively works with our portfoliocompanies consulting with them on all areas related to customer success. These include maximizing customer retention and upsell, optimizing organizational structures, choosing and configuring the right tools, and developing the appropriate KPIs and incentives.Prior to joining Georgian Partners, Jane worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company, where she helped organizations define their strategy, enhance their operating model, optimize their organizational structure and improve customer loyalty. Jane started her career as a software engineer, and worked as a solutions architect at Xerox, specializing in business process automation and outsourcing. During her tenure at Xerox, she designed and implemented numerous systems for banking, insurance, mining, education and healthcare clients around the world. She also played a key role in launching Xerox’s first document imaging center in Canada.Jane holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and an Masters’ degree in applied mathematics and computer science from Moscow State University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Payments | 1 | 50% |
| InsurTech | 1 | 50% |
| Insurance | 1 | 50% |

11 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wisedocs | Wisedocs offers a machine-learning SaaS platform for insurance, legal, and independent medical evaluation firms to review medical records with ease. It was created to help the IME, diagnostics, medico-legal, and insurance industries organize and understand unstructured medical data. The company caters to the auto, liability, disability,workers' compensation, tort law, and similar markets. It offers an easy-to-integrate solution that enhances accuracy and speed to improve outcomes in processing medical records. | $9.5M | Series A | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Helcim | Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid. | $12.7M | Series A | Mar 21, 2022 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aquiline Technology Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aquiline-technology-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accelerate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerate-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bluesky Equities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluesky-equities-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Generation Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/generation-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ManchesterStory Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manchesterstory-group-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Thomson Reuters Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomson-reuters-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Georgian

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Georgian is a fintech company that invests in high growth software companies that harness the power of data in a trustworthy way. They're building a platform to provide a better experience of growth capital to software company CEOs and their teams. Georgian's platform is designed to identify and accelerate the best growth-stage softwarecompanies, taking an intelligent, data-first approach to solving the key challenges CEOs face as they grow their businesses.They invest in companies across North America that harness the power of data in a trustworthy way. Based in Toronto and founded in 2008, Georgian’s team brings together software entrepreneurs, machine learning experts, experienced operators, and investment professionals.

5 contacts available at Georgian.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jane Podbelskaya | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jane-podbelskaya |
| John Berton | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-berton |
| Justin LaFayette | Managing Partner, Lead Investor & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-lafayette |
| Madalin Mihailescu | R&D | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madalin-mihailescu |
| Margaret Wu | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/margaret-wu-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Jane Podbelskaya invest in?

Jane Podbelskaya invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jane Podbelskaya last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jane Podbelskaya closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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