# Jared Wray

> Jared Wray is a seed investor at Palmetto backing SaaS and AgTech. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Palmetto
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredwray
- Website: https://x.com/jaredwray
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jared.wray.7

Jared Wray is a seed investor at Palmetto focused on SaaS and AgTech. Jared is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Palmetto. Prior to that, he joined CenturyLink Technology Solutions when the company acquired Tier 3 in November 2013. Jared founded Tier 3 in 2006 and was the visionary architect of the company's enterprise-class cloud management platform. As CTO, he architected Tier 3’s cloud withadvanced automation, orchestration, and fabric services. He is the originator of the Iron Foundry open source PaaS project, and is a thought leader in the evolution of enterprise cloud services. A serial entrepreneur, Wray previously founded Dual, an interactive development firm with clients such as Microsoft and Nintendo.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Jared Wray: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/jared-wray?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| AgTech | 1 | 33% |
| Farming | 1 | 33% |
| Privacy | 1 | 33% |
| Robotics | 1 | 33% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nupeak | Nupeak Robotics is an AI and robotics company that develops autonomous robots replacing dexterity intensive farm labor. It offers automated fruit picking service, equipping farmers with their own on-demand, 24/7 robot labor army. | $500K | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Helm | Helm is a consumer privacy and security company helping people take back ownership of their data. Its purpose is to help people be free, private and secure online. They believe we are on the verge of a new computing revolution – one that puts the user and their data first by decentralizing the net. This will require new approaches to userexperiences, design, marketing, engineering and delivering products to users. Helm hopes to build the foundation for this transformation. | $4M | Seed | Feb 24, 2017 |  |
| CheckMarket | Promoter.io is the most powerful and comprehensive tool built to help companies measure loyalty and customer sentiment using the Net Promoter Score (NPS). Our platform helps companies drive organic growth, proactively reduce churn, and learn more from their customers than ever before. |  | Angel |  |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fuel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kindred Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kindred-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lemnos VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lemnos-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Tuesday Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tuesday-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Palmetto

VC Fund · Charleston, United States

Palmetto Clean Technology builds and operates clean energy projects for residential, commercial, and utility customers. It designs and installs solar systems on residential homes, offers customer service support, and financing solutions. Palmetto Clean Technology's products include software technology solutions for home and business thatinclude Palmetto Home where homeowners receive real time energy consumption on in-home devices and solar production on their smart phones, Palmetto Fleet where home management professionals receive real time energy monitoring and solar production insights, and Alchemy, a software solution that empowers solar sales professionals to transform the customer experience and streamline the sales, design, and proposal processes. Christopher Kemper founded Palmetto Clean Technology on February 2, 2010. It has its headquarters in Charleston in South Carolina with additional offices in San Francisco in California, Sea Girt in New Jersey, Charlotte in North Carolina, the District of Columbia, and Greenville in South Carolina.

5 contacts available at Palmetto.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jared Wray | Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-wray |
| Shane Battier | Chief Culture Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shane-battier |
| Chris Kemper | Chairman, CEO & Founder | — |
| Cory Finnell | Chief Analytics Officer | — |
| Jason Hamilton | General Manager, Aftermarket Products & Services | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Jared Wray invest in?

Jared Wray invests primarily in SaaS, AgTech and Farming startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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.

### What is Jared Wray's check size?

Jared Wray typically joins rounds of $500k–$4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jared Wray participates in.

### How do I contact Jared Wray?

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### When did Jared Wray last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jared Wray closed in Jan 2024. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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