# Jesse Beyroutey

> Jesse Beyroutey is a seed investor at IA Ventures backing Software and Financial Services. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [IA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ia-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/beyroutey
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/beyroutey
- Website: http://beyroutey.com

Jesse Beyroutey is a Managing Partner of IA Ventures. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 35% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 29% |
| FinTech | 3 | 18% |
| Health Care | 3 | 18% |
| Real Estate | 3 | 18% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 53% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Series B | 2 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 65% |
| India | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hera | hera offers elderly care services, covered by original medicare. | $7.2M | Seed | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| January | January builds and enforces trust in consumer finance.Borrowers in delinquency and default face harassment, hidden fees, and harmed credit scores. Creditors lose out on recoveries, expose themselves to compliance and operational risks, and compromise the trust on which their relationships with borrowers are built.January works with borrowerswho fall behind on their loans to achieve financial stability, while helping creditors modernize their collections. | $12M | Series B | Dec 04, 2023 |  |
| January | January builds and enforces trust in consumer finance.Borrowers in delinquency and default face harassment, hidden fees, and harmed credit scores. Creditors lose out on recoveries, expose themselves to compliance and operational risks, and compromise the trust on which their relationships with borrowers are built.January works with borrowerswho fall behind on their loans to achieve financial stability, while helping creditors modernize their collections. | $10M | Seed | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| January | January builds and enforces trust in consumer finance.Borrowers in delinquency and default face harassment, hidden fees, and harmed credit scores. Creditors lose out on recoveries, expose themselves to compliance and operational risks, and compromise the trust on which their relationships with borrowers are built.January works with borrowerswho fall behind on their loans to achieve financial stability, while helping creditors modernize their collections. | $10M | Series A | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Simpl | Simpl has revolutionized online checkout in India by creating a market leading Pay-Later platform, empowering e-commerce merchants to offer their consumers 1-click checkout, a line of credit at POS and full buyer protection. | $40M | Series B | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Replay | Replay is a browser that records all of the contexts needed to fix bugs faster. It enables team members to jump to any point in the execution, add Console logs on the fly, and squash bugs. It was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $5.7M | Seed | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Replay | Replay is a browser that records all of the contexts needed to fix bugs faster. It enables team members to jump to any point in the execution, add Console logs on the fly, and squash bugs. It was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Alife | Alife develops artificial intelligence tools to assist physicians in increasing a patient's chances of pregnancy success. The company has a mission of helping people have healthy children and connects fertility specialists to patients to assists with IVF.Alife Health was founded in 2020 by Paxton Maeder-York and is headquartered in SanFrancisco, California, United States. | $9.5M | Seed | May 03, 2021 |  |
| Gauntlet | Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providingtransparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA. | $4.4M |  | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| Gauntlet | Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providingtransparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA. | $4.4M | Seed | Sep 16, 2020 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Paradigm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paradigm-b23a) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Brewer Lane Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brewer-lane-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Reciprocal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reciprocal-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About IA Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

IA Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed-stage investments in the fintech sector. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in information technology, e-commerce, software, financial services, healthcare, media, big data, and business services sectors.

3 contacts available at IA Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brad Gillespie | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-gillespie |
| Jesse Beyroutey | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jesse-beyroutey |
| Roger Ehrenberg | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-ehrenberg |

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## FAQ

### What does Jesse Beyroutey invest in?

Jesse Beyroutey invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 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 Jesse Beyroutey last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jesse Beyroutey closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 17 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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