# Jon Keidan

> Jon Keidan is a seed investor at Council on Foreign Relations backing Food and Beverage. See 72 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Council on Foreign Relations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/council-on-foreign-relations)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 72
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-keidan-b76515/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jkeidan
- Website: https://torchcapital.vc/

Jon Keidan is a seed investor at Council on Foreign Relations in New York focused on Food and Beverage and E-Commerce. Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$8M |
| Series A | $3M–$30M |
| Series B | $15M–$85M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 10 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 9 | 13% |
| Internet | 7 | 10% |
| Software | 7 | 10% |
| Health Care | 7 | 10% |

99 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 25 | 35% |
| Series A | 15 | 21% |
| Series B | 6 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 8% |
| Series C | 4 | 6% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 44 | 61% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Salvo Health | Salvo is emerging as the leader in helping GI providers leap into a hybrid-care vision of the future of medicine, providing brick & mortar clinics with an easy to implement continuous care platform that saves time, increases revenue and improves patient outcomes.The company has announced agreements with 771 GI’s, representing 15% of allindependent GI’s in the US, to deploy wraparound care for their clinic patients. Included in its customers are five of the largest GI practices in the country, together seeing over 1.1 million GI patients a year. Salvo provides the tech and care delivery for modern, interdisciplinary care to treat chronic conditions that have surged in cost and prevalence: --IBS and IBD (over 40M affected) -- GERD and Celiac (over 50M affected) --MASH/MASLD, what was previously called “fatty liver disease” (over 80M) --Obesity (over 100M) The care benefits patients (76% of patients reported improved symptoms, five accepted medical conference abstracts on outcomes), generates incremental profit for practices (over $2M EBITDA improvement for a 100 GI practice), and reduces total healthcare costs (79% drop in GI-related ER utilization). | $8.5M | Series A | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| Arcade | Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate. | $25M | Series A | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| Little Otter | Little Otter is a children's mental health company that developed an app that focuses on the mental health of children and their families. Little Otter is a family-focused mental health service for children. The company app makes it simple to connect with qualified providers from the convenience of the user's phone and gain access toadvice and guidance developed by Dr. Helen Egger and child mental health experts. | $9.5M |  | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| Sollis Health | Sollis Health, formerly known as Priority Private Care (PPC), offers members access to medical facilities, including best-in-class ER physicians who manage their care from check-in to follow-up, superior staff to attend to a member’s every need, advanced diagnostic imaging, VIP support from leading hospitals, and fast access to our hand-selectedspecialist network. The company specializes in concierge urgent and emergency care, functioning similarly to having a personal doctor available at all times. | $33M | Series B | Dec 05, 2024 |  |
| Sollis Health | Sollis Health, formerly known as Priority Private Care (PPC), offers members access to medical facilities, including best-in-class ER physicians who manage their care from check-in to follow-up, superior staff to attend to a member’s every need, advanced diagnostic imaging, VIP support from leading hospitals, and fast access to our hand-selectedspecialist network. The company specializes in concierge urgent and emergency care, functioning similarly to having a personal doctor available at all times. | $15M | Series A | Jun 21, 2023 |  |
| Salvo Health | Salvo is emerging as the leader in helping GI providers leap into a hybrid-care vision of the future of medicine, providing brick & mortar clinics with an easy to implement continuous care platform that saves time, increases revenue and improves patient outcomes.The company has announced agreements with 771 GI’s, representing 15% of allindependent GI’s in the US, to deploy wraparound care for their clinic patients. Included in its customers are five of the largest GI practices in the country, together seeing over 1.1 million GI patients a year. Salvo provides the tech and care delivery for modern, interdisciplinary care to treat chronic conditions that have surged in cost and prevalence: --IBS and IBD (over 40M affected) -- GERD and Celiac (over 50M affected) --MASH/MASLD, what was previously called “fatty liver disease” (over 80M) --Obesity (over 100M) The care benefits patients (76% of patients reported improved symptoms, five accepted medical conference abstracts on outcomes), generates incremental profit for practices (over $2M EBITDA improvement for a 100 GI practice), and reduces total healthcare costs (79% drop in GI-related ER utilization). | $10.5M | Seed | Aug 05, 2022 |  |
| Sollis Health | Sollis Health, formerly known as Priority Private Care (PPC), offers members access to medical facilities, including best-in-class ER physicians who manage their care from check-in to follow-up, superior staff to attend to a member’s every need, advanced diagnostic imaging, VIP support from leading hospitals, and fast access to our hand-selectedspecialist network. The company specializes in concierge urgent and emergency care, functioning similarly to having a personal doctor available at all times. | $30M | Series A | Jan 21, 2022 |  |
| Little Otter | Little Otter is a children's mental health company that developed an app that focuses on the mental health of children and their families. Little Otter is a family-focused mental health service for children. The company app makes it simple to connect with qualified providers from the convenience of the user's phone and gain access toadvice and guidance developed by Dr. Helen Egger and child mental health experts. | $22M | Series A | Jan 06, 2022 |  |
| Jane Technologies | Jane Technologies is a cannabis retail tech company that provides its consumers with a confident, safe and simple shopping experience. Users can browse local products in real-time, compare by price, proximity or popularity and place orders at local stores for free. Jane partners with dispensaries on a win-win basis; stores only pay for completedorders at a fraction of the price of other industry software. | $100M | Series C | Aug 25, 2021 |  |
| Lobos 1707 | Lobos 1707 Tequila is an independent spirits producer. It specializes in the fields of retail, manufacturing and distribution of wine and spirits. |  | Series D | Jul 22, 2021 |  |

10 of 72 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Torch Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/torch-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Vast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vast-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Read Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/read-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Springbank Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soringbank-collective) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Council on Foreign Relations

VC Fund · New York, United States

Council on Foreign Relations operates as a non-partisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher.The company provides meetings, symposia, conferences, corporate programs, term member programs, independent task forces, foreign affairs, outreach initiatives, publishing, and rental space services.Council on Foreign Relationsserves its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Russian Federation, the Middle East, and Polar regions.Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is based in New York. It has an additional office in Washington, District of Columbia.

5 contacts available at Council on Foreign Relations.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Spoon | Member of the Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-spoon |
| Gina Raimondo | Distinguished Fellow | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gina-raimondo |
| Andy Karsner | Life Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-karsner |
| Christina Sass | Life Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-sass |
| Deven Parekh | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deven-parekh |

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## FAQ

### What does Jon Keidan invest in?

Jon Keidan invests primarily in Food and Beverage, E-Commerce and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 72 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 Jon Keidan's check size?

Jon Keidan typically joins rounds of $1M–$8M at Seed, $3M–$30M at Series A and $15M–$85M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jon Keidan participates in.

### When did Jon Keidan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jon Keidan closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 72 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?

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