# Jonathan Scherr

> Jonathan Scherr is a Series A investor at project44 (San Francisco) backing Marketplace and B2B. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [project44](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/project44)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbscherr/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jbscherr
- Website: https://x.com/jbscherr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.scherr

Jonathan Scherr is a Series A investor at project44 in San Francisco focused on Marketplace and B2B. Jonathan Scherr is based out of Chicago, Illinois, and is the Chief Strategy and Operations Officer of project44. Jonathan previously worked at Juno as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jonathan Scherr has received the World Economic Forum and earned awards.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketplace | 2 | 40% |
| B2B | 1 | 20% |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |
| Farming | 1 | 20% |
| Finance | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 60% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cottage | Cottage is tackling housing affordability via a managed marketplace for building Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). | $15M | Series A | Apr 06, 2022 |  |
| Standard Metrics | Quaestor is an automated data platform that enables financial transparency between startups and investors. | $5.8M | Seed | Jul 13, 2020 |  |
| Full Harvest | Full Harvest helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market.We are a B2B platform connecting large farms to food businesses to sell significantly discounted, yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste.Approx. 20 billion pounds ofproduce go to waste in the U.S. annually simply because they are not perfectly shaped for strict retailer standards. We aim to solve this problem by creating a marketplace for this unutilized edible and delicious produce.Our vision is three-fold: bring an additional revenue stream to farmers, lower the cost of healthy food production, while significantly reducing wasted food and resources. A win-win for everyone. | $8.5M | Series A | Aug 15, 2018 |  |
| Learner-Centered Collaborative | AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for our changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact inour efforts to improve education. Underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child. | $100M | Series B | May 04, 2015 |  |
| Learner-Centered Collaborative | AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for our changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact inour efforts to improve education. Underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child. | $33M | Series A | Mar 18, 2014 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Designer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/designer-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-asia-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Titan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/titan-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1Sharpe Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1sharpe-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About project44

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that manages more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world’s leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences,food & beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical & gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability. The undisputed leader in the market and innovator of Movement GPT, project44 was named the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, #1 in FreightWaves FreightTech 2023, a ten-time leader in customer satisfaction on G2’s Supply Chain Visibility Grid, one of SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022, and the Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report. project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 15 global offices including Amsterdam, Kraków, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. Learn more at project44.com.

5 contacts available at project44.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adrian Parkhideh | Vice President, Go To Market Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-parkhideh |
| David Panitz | Vice President of Global Accounts | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-panitz |
| Jett McCandless | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jett-mccandless |
| Vivek Kundra | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vivek-kundra |
| Jonathan Scherr | Chief Strategy and Operations Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-sackler |

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## FAQ

### What does Jonathan Scherr invest in?

Jonathan Scherr invests primarily in Marketplace, B2B and Retail startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Jonathan Scherr last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jonathan Scherr closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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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