Jefferies
VC Fund
New York, United States
Jefferies is a VC fund in New York focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Jefferies provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets.Jefferies, a major global securities and investment banking group, has served companies and their investors for nearly 50 years and operates in more than 25 cities around the world. They provide world-class investment banking, sales andtrading, research and asset management to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net worth individuals. They are industry experts, specializing in aerospace and defense, consumer energy, financial services, gaming and leisure, healthcare, industrials, maritime, media, real estate & lodging, technology, and telecommunications, with a dedicated private equity coverage group.
- Total investments:
- 52
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
- Fund size:
- $15M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Jefferies invests in
Stages Jefferies invests in
Countries Jefferies invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 15 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $5.5M–$66M
- Debt Financing
- $49M–$1B
- Post-IPO Equity
- $30M–$150M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 13 (25%)
- FinTech 10 (19%)
- Software 8 (15%)
- Biotechnology 7 (13%)
- Finance 6 (12%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 11 (21%)
- Series A 5 (10%)
- Post-IPO Equity 5 (10%)
- Series B 4 (8%)
- Post-IPO Debt 4 (8%)
Country
- United States 29 (56%)
- United Kingdom 3 (6%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- Belgium 1 (2%)
- Germany 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Joe Ziemer
Managing Director, Head of Global Strategic Communications
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Managing Director, Head of Global Strategic Communications | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Paul G. Furer
Analyst (M&A)
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Analyst (M&A) | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Steve West
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Todd Breeden
Managing Director, Head of Venture Directs
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Managing Director, Head of Venture Directs | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Boyd Jefferies
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 15 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achieve Life Science manufactures pharmaceutical products. The firm develops cytisine as a smoking cessation aid. | $150M / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 14, 2026 | ||
| FTAI Infrastructure invests in rail, ports, terminals, and power and gas assets with high barriers to entry. | $230M / Post-IPO Debt / Jul 01, 2026 | ||
| Optiversal is a provider of AI, NLP, and GPT-3 powered content and merchandising solutions. The company accelerates the content creation process from ideation to publication by producing content suggestions trained on the product catalog. | $5.5M / Series A / May 20, 2025 | ||
| At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated. | $1B / Debt Financing / Feb 10, 2025 | ||
| Oportun is a fintech company that provides financial services from personal loans to financial resources. The company's mission-based technology-powered approach is designed to be inclusive, affordable, and empowering. It lends money to hardworking, low-to-moderate-income individuals and helps customers move forward in their lives,demonstrate their creditworthiness, and help establish the credit history they need to access new opportunities.Oportun was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California. | $425M / Post-IPO Debt / Jan 16, 2025 | ||
| BattleFin focuses on sourcing, organizing, evaluating and vetting alternative data. They differentiate themselves by trading live capital on the alternative data they find and offering feedback, validation and verification to the data providers. | $4M / Dec 17, 2024 | ||
| Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS. | $300M / Series E / Nov 11, 2024 | ||
| CoreWeave offers GPU-based compute resources, storage, and networking capabilities optimized for training and deploying machine learning models. Its platform includes Kubernetes-based environments, managed software services, and tools for monitoring system performance and cluster health. It enables organizations to run large-scale AI workloadsthrough dedicated infrastructure and configurable deployment options. The company supports developers and enterprises by providing scalable resources aligned with the requirements of data-intensive and compute-intensive applications. | $650M / Debt Financing / Oct 11, 2024 | ||
| Smartsheet is the best way to plan, track, automate, and report on work, enabling you to move from idea to impact - fast. This cloud-based work management platform empowers collaboration, drives better decision making, and accelerates innovation for over 70,000 brands in 190 countries, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Named by Forbes asone of the world’s top private cloud companies, Smartsheet complements existing enterprise investments by deeply integrating with applications from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many others. | $3.2B / Post-IPO Debt / Sep 24, 2024 | ||
| Oportun is a fintech company that provides financial services from personal loans to financial resources. The company's mission-based technology-powered approach is designed to be inclusive, affordable, and empowering. It lends money to hardworking, low-to-moderate-income individuals and helps customers move forward in their lives,demonstrate their creditworthiness, and help establish the credit history they need to access new opportunities.Oportun was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California. | $306M / Post-IPO Debt / Sep 23, 2024 | ||
| See all 52 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Jefferies invest in?
Jefferies invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Debt Financing and Series A stage. Most of the 52 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 Jefferies's check size?
Jefferies typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$66M at Series A, $49M–$1B at Debt Financing and $30M–$150M at Post-IPO Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jefferies participates in.
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Who are the partners at Jefferies?
The team at Jefferies includes Joe Ziemer (Managing Director, Head of Global Strategic Communications), Paul G. Furer (Analyst (M&A)) and Steve West (Managing Director), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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