# Jason Heltzer

> Jason Heltzer is a Series A investor at Origin Ventures (Chicago) backing Software and Internet. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Origin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/origin-ventures)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonheltzer
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jheltzer
- Website: http://ventureevolved.com/

Jason Heltzer is a Series A investor at Origin Ventures in Chicago focused on Software and Internet. Jason is a Managing Partner at Origin Ventures, and he began his venture capital career in 2001. Jason is currently a board member or observer for Tovala, Prisidio, Kodex, Idelic, Blackcart, and Vivrelle. Jason's previous investments include Tock (acquired by SquareSpace), Cartavi (acquired by Docusign), Base CRM (acquired by ZenDesk), AlertLogic (acquired by Help Systems/Welsh Carson), TradeKing (acquired by Ally Bank), FeeFighters (Acquired by Groupon), and Brightnest (acquired by Angi). Before becoming a venture investor, Jason spent three and a half years as a software engineer and software architect for Deloitte Consulting. He also led engineering and business teams at 1stUp, a San Francisco-based startup.Jason holds an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship, with high honors, from Chicago Booth, where he was selected as a Siebel Scholar and Wallman Scholar. Jason also holds a BS in computer science, with highest distinction, from the University of Michigan, where he also founded a fraternity.In addition to his professional responsibilities at Origin, Jason is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth, where he teaches the venture capital and private equity lab class.Jason has an interest in movies, and has watched every Best Picture movie from 1927-2013, plus about 100 documentaries. In addition, for most of his life, Jason has been addicted to video games, which is what prompted him to teach himself how to code when he was 13.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 25% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 13% |
| Cooking | 1 | 6% |
| Fashion | 1 | 6% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 38% |
| Seed | 4 | 25% |
| Series B | 3 | 19% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Silkline | Modern operating system for direct materials procurement. | $4M | Seed | Oct 22, 2025 |  |
| Hoop | Hoop helps make sure you don't miss a thing by automatically capturing your todos and action items from meetings and chat. | $5M | Seed | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Vivrelle | Vivrelle is a membership club that provides access to a shared closet of designer handbags, jewelry, and diamonds for a monthly membership fee. | $35M | Series B | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Kodex | Kodex is a website constructed using decentralised blockchains like Bitcoin and NFTs. | $2M | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Vivrelle | Vivrelle is a membership club that provides access to a shared closet of designer handbags, jewelry, and diamonds for a monthly membership fee. | $26M | Series A | Apr 26, 2021 |  |
| Tovala | Tovala combines a smart oven with a fresh meal delivery service to makes dinner effortless. Tovala is a smart oven that sits on the countertop and is paired with a companion meal delivery service. The company's meal system combines an internet-connected countertop steam oven capable of multi-step cooking with meals prepared by gourmet chefs,making dinner preparation as simple as scanning a barcode, enabling busy people to get access to an effortless way to eat delicious, healthy, home-cooked meals.The Chicago-based company was founded in 2015 and was launched in 2017. | $30M | Series C | Feb 04, 2021 |  |
| Tovala | Tovala combines a smart oven with a fresh meal delivery service to makes dinner effortless. Tovala is a smart oven that sits on the countertop and is paired with a companion meal delivery service. The company's meal system combines an internet-connected countertop steam oven capable of multi-step cooking with meals prepared by gourmet chefs,making dinner preparation as simple as scanning a barcode, enabling busy people to get access to an effortless way to eat delicious, healthy, home-cooked meals.The Chicago-based company was founded in 2015 and was launched in 2017. | $20M | Series B | Jun 02, 2020 |  |
| Tock | Tock is a comprehensive platform built to fundamentally change the way restaurants think about and run their business. This includes a robust reservation, guest, and table management system for restaurants of all sizes across the globe. | $10M | Series C | May 12, 2020 |  |
| Tock | Tock is a comprehensive platform built to fundamentally change the way restaurants think about and run their business. This includes a robust reservation, guest, and table management system for restaurants of all sizes across the globe. | $9.5M | Series B | Nov 28, 2018 |  |
| Wove | Wove envisions a world where brands grow together. To support this vision, Wove is building the world’s largest network for marketing partnerships, where trusted brands reach each other’s loyal customers and make them their own - all while protecting consumer privacy. With backing from August Capital, Partech, and Origin Ventures, Wove enablesbrands to transform their marketing efforts by unlocking the power of other brands'​ data. | $9M | Series A | Sep 19, 2018 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Stack Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-stack-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [OurCrowd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ourcrowd) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Pritzker Group Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pritzker-group-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Valor Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valor-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Chapford Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chapford-capital-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chicago Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chicago-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Origin Ventures

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth software, marketplace, and consumer businesses shaping the 'Digital Native Economy'. Founded in 1999, the firm has the unique distinction of having multiple funds in the top 5% on realized performance. Typical check size is $500K to $8M. Select exitsinclude Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB), BacklotCars, Tock, Ahalogy, and Teem.To learn more, visit www.originventures.com.

5 contacts available at Origin Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Angela Smith | Senior Associate and Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angela-smith-d555 |
| Bruce N. Barron | Co-Founder and Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-n-barron |
| Jacquie Marshall Siegmund | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacquie-marshall-siegmund |
| Jason Heltzer | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-heltzer |
| Prashant Shukla | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prashant-shukla-79ad |

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## FAQ

### What does Jason Heltzer invest in?

Jason Heltzer invests primarily in Software, Internet and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jason Heltzer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jason Heltzer closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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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