# Jeffrey Parker

> Jeffrey Parker is a seed investor at KnowledgeVision (Palm Beach) backing Internet and Analytics. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [KnowledgeVision](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/knowledgevision)
- Location: Palm Beach, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-parker-7528b
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/JeffreyPParker

Jeffrey Parker is a seed investor at KnowledgeVision in Palm Beach focused on Internet and Analytics. Jeff has an extensive history of success as an entrepreneur, CEO and investor in financial services companies over the past twenty years. He brings an operating perspective to the companies in which he invests, as well as a wealth of financial expertise and an extended network of domestic and international business contacts. Jeff currentlyrepresents GrandBanks Capital as Chairman of the Board of Directors for First Coverage. He was named 2003 New England Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in the Financial Services category. Jeff currently serves as an advisor to MedPanel of Boston and is a member of the Board of Directors of Mainstream Data and Vision Research.BackgroundIn 1980, Jeff founded Technical Data Corporation, a provider of financial analytic services for the institutional investor community. In 1983, he founded First Call Corporation, which quickly became one of the financial community's leading providers of real-time broker-sourced research, earnings estimates, equity and fixed income ownership information, insider trading information and corporate news releases. In 1986, Jeff sold both these businesses to the Canadian publishing giant International Thomson, now The Thomson Corporation, and became Chairman and CEO of Thomson Financial, its financial services subsidiary. Under Jeff's leadership, Thomson Financial became the major provider of proprietary financial information to the investment and corporate communities. Thomson Financial currently serves over 75,000 institutional clients worldwide and has annual revenues in excess of $750 million.After serving as CEO of Thomson Financial, Jeff co-founded 38 Newbury Ventures, a venture capital firm which focused on start-up and early stage companies. While at 38 Newbury Ventures, Jeff and Charley Lax co-invested together in several companies including FAXNET and LimiTrader.In 1997, Jeff co-founded CCBN.com (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network), a leader in enabling direct communications between public companies and the investment community over the Internet. CCBN.com builds, manages and hosts the investor relations sections of Web sites for more than 2,000 public companies, providing detailed shareholder information through interactive, multi-media solutions. Jeff served as CCBN's Chairman and CEO until the sale of the company to The Thomson Corporation in March 2004.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$5.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 29% |
| Analytics | 2 | 29% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Mobile | 1 | 14% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 86% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Truepic | Truepic provides authenticity infrastructure for the internet. The company’s transparency tools deliver verifiable information about the origin and editing history of digital content. Truepic is dedicated to advancing products and services that establish transparency in digital content, empowering viewers and users to identify authenticity anddifferentiate human from computer-generated. Recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, consumers, businesses, creators, and publishers trust Truepic’s technologies to make informed decisions. | $8M | Series A | Jun 20, 2018 |  |
| Truepic | Truepic provides authenticity infrastructure for the internet. The company’s transparency tools deliver verifiable information about the origin and editing history of digital content. Truepic is dedicated to advancing products and services that establish transparency in digital content, empowering viewers and users to identify authenticity anddifferentiate human from computer-generated. Recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, consumers, businesses, creators, and publishers trust Truepic’s technologies to make informed decisions. | $1.8M | Seed | May 11, 2017 |  |
| Urban Umbrella | Urban Umbrella is designing innovative scaffolding for the future of city sidewalks. The company fabricates all of its products in-house, at its designated factory. The steel Urban Umbrella uses is superior to anything on the current scaffolding market. It transforms construction riddled sidewalks into safe, welcoming pedestrian corridors whilegiving building owners and developers an aesthetically pleasing option. They designing Innovative scaffolding for the future of city sidewalks. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 01, 2016 |  |
| Flyp | Flyp, Inc. is a US-based telecommunications company focused on changing the global consumer communications experience. The company's proprietary platform delivers the highest quality voice and text communications in or out of network, while enabling the use of multiple phone numbers on a single device. For international customers, Flyp is thefirst and only solution that provides mobile users with a local US phone number on their device for high-quality, free calling and texting to and from any US phone number. | $5.8M | Seed | Feb 01, 2016 |  |
| netBlazr | netBlazr provides affordable, high-speed internet to residences and businesses as an alternative to the "big guys" that force people into high-cost service bundles for things they don't want. It was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $300K | Seed | Sep 10, 2015 |  |
| Scout Finance | Scout Finance is on a mission to transform how investors perform day-to-day equity research and analysis through automation, data science, and amazing design. They’re building a SaaS product that provides next-generation data analytics and workflow solutions for fundamental, public markets investors. They want to make professional investors 10xmore productive when performing fundamental research by giving them an automated analyst at their fingertips, whether at their desk or on the road.Existing market data tools (Bloomberg, CapIQ, etc.) are expensive, difficult to use and are primarily repositories of data. Work is performed the same way it was 20 years ago using a combination of Excel and the terminal, which is inefficient and time consuming. They are building a product that adapts to how you work.Their product is in the alpha stage, built by a team that includes the former Head of Mobile at Thomson Reuters, two Lead Engineers at Bloomberg, and former buyside professionals. | $950K | Seed | Dec 31, 2014 |  |
| Reonomy | Reonomy leverages big data, partnerships, and machine learning to connect the fragmented world of commercial real estate. Reonomy products empower individuals, teams, and companies to unlock insights and discover new opportunities by providing unparalleled access to property intelligence. | $1.2M | Seed | Mar 01, 2013 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acorn Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acorn-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aspect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chasella](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chasella) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FinTech Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintech-collective) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Green Egg Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greeneggventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KEC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kec-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About KnowledgeVision

VC Fund · Concord, United States

KnowledgeVision Systems Incorporated provides on-demand tools to create interactive and multi-media Web presentations for companies and organizations. It offers an enterprise solution for creating on-demand synchronized video business presentations for the Web. The company's tool is used in sales and marketing presentations, productdemonstrations, training, and organizational development sessions, CEO and senior management communications, knowledge sharing presentations, periodic financial reporting, and virtual roadshows, an on-demand replay of webinars, and interactive white papers. KnowledgeVision Systems Incorporated was founded in 2010 and is based in Concord, Massachusetts.

2 contacts available at KnowledgeVision.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jeffrey Parker | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-p-parker |
| Michael E. Kolowich | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-e-kolowich |

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## FAQ

### What does Jeffrey Parker invest in?

Jeffrey Parker invests primarily in Internet, Analytics and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Jeffrey Parker's check size?

Jeffrey Parker typically joins rounds of $300k–$5.8M 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 Jeffrey Parker participates in.

### When did Jeffrey Parker last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jeffrey Parker closed in Jun 2018. Shizune tracks 7 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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