Jared Hecht
Angel Investor @ Union Square Ventures
New York, United States
Jared Hecht is an investor at Union Square Ventures and the co-founder of GroupMe and Fundera.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Jared Hecht invests in
Stages Jared Hecht invests in
Countries Jared Hecht invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $935k–$8M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.1M–$4.4M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$16M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (27%)
- Finance 4 (18%)
- Mobile 3 (14%)
- FinTech 3 (14%)
- Internet 3 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (55%)
- Series A 5 (23%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (14%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
- Debt Financing 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Oboe is an AI-powered educational platform that offers resources for learning. | $16M / Series A / Dec 10, 2025 | ||
| The consensus is to enable discovery and consumption of the world's expert knowledge. No matter your background, finding scientific research has always been a difficult procedure. Consensus think AI has the potential to transform this equation if applied intelligently, deftly, and tastefully. | $11.5M / Series A / Jul 23, 2024 | ||
| Wand is a co-creative, AI-driven tool that allows artists the manual control and customization they need to realize their ideas. | $4.2M / Seed / Aug 23, 2023 | ||
| Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.3M / Seed / Apr 26, 2023 | ||
| Street FC operates a football club to make soccer accessible to as many people as possible. It develops a technology that specializes in connecting a community of players online and offline by organizing fast-paced street soccer games on hard surfaces. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York. | $2.2M / Seed / Aug 17, 2022 | ||
| Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.4M / Pre-Seed / Aug 01, 2022 | ||
| The enterprise performance suite for scaling revenue leaders | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Oct 01, 2021 | ||
| Chums offer a new way of shopping where users can save products from any website and organize it into collections. It also enables friends to share, recommend, and discover new products and services together. The New York, New York-based company was established by Dick Fickling and Noah Elion in 2019. | $4.5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2021 | ||
| Collective operates as an online back-office platform designed for self-employed people. Its technology and a team of trusted advisors give its members the freedom to focus on what matters by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and access to a community all in one platform. | $8.7M / Seed / Sep 29, 2020 | ||
| David Energy is an energy company that leverages advanced technology to transform the way electricity is consumed, managed, and traded. By integrating software and hardware solutions, David Energy aims to optimize energy usage, reduce costs, and increase the adoption of renewable energy sources. By focusing on smart energy management, renewableenergy integration, and market participation, David Energy is helping to shape a more sustainable and efficient energy future. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Mar 11, 2020 | ||
| See all 22 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Union Square Ventures
Union Square Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth capital, late-stage, and startup financing. The USV portfolio companies create services that have the potential to fundamentally transform important markets. It exclusively invests in the internet world, focusing on the applications layer of the web, internet services, and web services that create large networks as well as the mobile sector. Some of its invested companies are based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and places in between. It typically makes a starting investment in portfolio companies of $1 million. In certain Series Around cases, the firm may make a starting investment between $2.5 million to $3 million. It typically invests up to $20 million in any single company. Union Square Ventures was founded in 2003 and is based in New York, United States.
Union Square Ventures Contacts
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Hanel Baveja
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Mona Alsubaei
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Albert Wenger
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Andrew Weissman
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Bradford Burnham
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FAQ
What does Jared Hecht invest in?
Jared Hecht invests primarily in Software, Finance and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 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 Jared Hecht invest in?
Jared Hecht typically joins rounds of $935k–$8M at Seed, $1.1M–$4.4M at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$16M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Jared Hecht's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Jared Hecht took part in.
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When did Jared Hecht last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jared Hecht closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 22 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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