Jason Franklin
Managing Director @ WVV Capital
Jason Franklin is a seed investor at WVV Capital focused on Health Care and Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Franklin is the CEO and Managing Director of WVV Capital. He holds a Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University and degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the recipient of the 2012 Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence, 2009 SOSP Best PaperAward, 2005 USENIX Security Best Paper Award, Department of Homeland Security Fellowship, and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Jason Franklin invests in
Health CareArtificial IntelligenceSecurityCloud SecurityMachine Learning
Stages Jason Franklin invests in
SeedSeries ASeries BSeries DVenture - Series Unknown
Countries Jason Franklin invests in
United States
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 3 (21%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (21%)
- Security 2 (14%)
- Cloud Security 2 (14%)
- Machine Learning 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (50%)
- Series A 3 (21%)
- Series B 2 (14%)
- Series D 1 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (7%)
Investments
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Paxton
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Paxton AI is an innovative legal tech company that utilizes cutting-edge Generative AI technology to revolutionize the way legal and compliance professionals work. Our robust AI platform ingests vast sources of regulatory information, including all state and federal laws and regulations, and provides precise, relevant, and insightful responses touser queries. From answering questions about regulations to drafting legal documents, Paxton AI transforms the legal research and analysis process, saving time and increasing efficiency. | $22M / Series A / Jan 29, 2025 | |
Lutra AI
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Lutra AI is to simplify complex tasks that specializes in workflows, created by the platform. | $3.8M / Seed / Dec 07, 2023 | |
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Paxton
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Paxton AI is an innovative legal tech company that utilizes cutting-edge Generative AI technology to revolutionize the way legal and compliance professionals work. Our robust AI platform ingests vast sources of regulatory information, including all state and federal laws and regulations, and provides precise, relevant, and insightful responses touser queries. From answering questions about regulations to drafting legal documents, Paxton AI transforms the legal research and analysis process, saving time and increasing efficiency. | $6M / Seed / Sep 19, 2023 | |
Measurabl
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Measurabl is the world’s most widely adopted ESG (environmental, social, governance) data management solution for commercial real estate. Customers use Measurabl to measure, manage, and report ESG data on more than 11 billion square feet of commercial real estate across 80 countries. Measurabl helps companies measure, manage and disclose ESGperformance, assess exposure to physical climate risk, and act on decarbonization and sustainable finance opportunities. Learn more at measurabl.com. | $93M / Series D / May 31, 2023 | |
Raeden
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Raeden is a marketplace for the real estate industry that creates digital tenancy to feature locations and generate revenue. | Seed / Feb 22, 2023 | |
Ongo Science
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Ongo Science is a mobile app for health and wellness communities. It is the best no-code platform for starting and expanding a health and wellness app. They collaborate with some of the top artists in the world to develop software that encourages a healthy lifestyle. | $8.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 07, 2023 | |
Bend Health
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Bend Health, Inc. is a national healthcare company that increases access and reduces the cost of expert mental health care for kids, teens, and families. Our founding team has been in both technology and healthcare for nearly twenty years, as individual contributors, and executives, in both private practices and at companies including Oracle,Optum, UnitedHealth Group and Teladoc Health. We are revolutionizing the treatment of mental health conditions for kids and teens through a novel data-driven technology platform and evidence-based collaborative care model that enables the first scalable and integrated care solution in mental health. Through coaching, therapy and reduced time to evaluation and treatment by licensed pediatric psychiatry experts, our approach achieves better outcomes and results in happier, healthier, kids/teens, while ensuring stigma, cost, and logistics are no longer barriers to care. | $5M / Seed / Jan 24, 2022 | |
SignalWire
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SignalWire is the next stage in the evolution of Software-Defined Telecom started in 2005 with the FreeSWITCH open-source project. The primary goal is to create a worldwide network that can transport real-time communications over secure standards-based channels and make it all accessible to developers and businesses using simple SDKs andprogramming interfaces designed to be powerful but simple-to-use.Audio/Video applications can be built with SignalWire that run in the mobile browser with no additional software and allow an experience that can unlock communications with a virtual office, AI bots, PSTN termination, gateways to remote call centers, and much more. With the evolving mobile SDK, rich applications can be built as native apps and the other side of every call is not just a "room" but a full-fledged routable telecommunications backend with additional programmable control for every call.SignalWire is founded on the principle of work-from-anywhere dating back to the turn of the century and continues that tradition with a fully distributed workforce spanning 16 US states and 11 countries in nearly every inhabited time zone. This remote culture has helped to shape the way our products and services have evolved and have proved to be invaluable amid the pandemic crisis in 2020.The core of SignalWire is made up of several networked nodes transforming the computing power of its host system into IP-based telecommunications relays that are demand-driven and horizontally scalable.The breadth of the SignalWire technology ranges from mature interfaces like SIP and PSTN to state-of-the-art techniques in live video and HD audio.Unlike many "video chat" products and services, SignalWire goes well beyond basic capabilities and has dissected every moving part into programmable components that are on the bleeding edge of what is possible.SignalWire is evolving quickly into the first and only software-powered global telecommunications company delivering that as a service at the Infrastructure, Platform, and Application layer of today's communication stack landscape.Additionally, SignalWire is an active participant in the development and furthering of the standards on which the Internet relies for all of its real-time communications techniques. | $30M / Series B / May 02, 2021 | |
BlocPower
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BlocPower is an energy technology startup that develops healthier, greener, and smarter buildings.It leverages advanced technologies, innovative electrification equipment, and structured finance to provide green heating and cooling to urban buildings. The company also connects government agencies, utilities, building owners, and smart equipmentproviders to identify unhealthy, energy-wasting buildings to retrofit. Its proprietary machine learning platform then determines which retrofits will produce the most energy savings at scale and uses the cloud and IoT to gather data and remotely monitor energy consumption. Since its founding, BlocPower has completed energy projects in nearly 1,000 buildings and delivered results ahead of schedule and under budget. It utilizes its proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and monitoring of urban clean energy projects, and its customers are saving 20–40% on their energy bills each year. The company is backed by top investors, including Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, AccelR8, the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group, Elemental Excelerator, CityRock Venture Partners, the Schmidt Family Foundation, and Salesforce Ventures.Donnel Baird and Morris Cox co-founded the company in Brooklyn, New York in 2014. | $11.8M / Series A / Oct 06, 2020 | |
Syntegra
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Syntegra applies state-of-the-art machine learning models to create validated, synthetic data derivatives of health care data that match all of the statistical properties of the underlying data, but guaranteed to contain none of the original data, and cleared of privacy issues. Healthcare systems and data aggregators are forced to impose evergreater barriers to clinical data access. Syntegra is unique in developing a very large, open-access data platform of high quality, patient-level real-world data, trained using modern machine learning methods on health system information. Users can leverage our platform to conduct analytics, building predictive models, generating synthetic control groups for clinical trials and more.Since training is done on data at rest, and only deep learning model parameters are sent from the Syntegra API to the Syntegra servers, there is no risk of identifiable personal information leaving our secure platform. To satisfy health system security teams and end-users, numerous methods of validation, leak-testing and benchmarking are applied to the data derivatives before they pierce the health system’s firewall. Syntegra’s solution is scalable, and usable across many types of data, from images to financial information to sensor streams, will be securely added to our data lake over time. The company is led by a team of extraordinary serial entrepreneurs and university faculty with deep knowledge in medicine and data science. | $5.6M / Seed / Aug 28, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About WVV Capital
WVV Capital is a $100M early-stage joint venture fund between Advocate Health, Foxconn, Johnson Controls, and Northwestern Mutual targeting transformative innovations in the areas of health care, manufacturing, building technology, fintech/insurtech, and IT.
WVV Capital Contacts
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Jason Franklin
Managing Director
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Matt Maurer
Partner
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Danielle D'Agostaro
Principal Partner
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Steven Robinson
COO, Counsel
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Youssef Mawad
Investment Commitee Member
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FAQ
What does Jason Franklin invest in?
Jason Franklin invests primarily in Health Care, Artificial Intelligence and Security startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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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When did Jason Franklin last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jason Franklin closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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