RJ Jones
Angel Investor
Seattle, United States
RJ Jones is a seed investor in Seattle focused on Software and SaaS. RJ Jones is Vice President of Investor Relations at Life360 (NASDAQ: LIF, ASX:360).Before joining Life360 for its US IPO, RJ was Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Communications, and Sustainability at Similarweb (NYSE: SMWB).Prior to joining Similarweb, RJ headed the iBuying and Home Improvement businesses of kwx, the holdingcompany for Keller Williams. Immediately prior to joining kwx, RJ was the Chief Operating Officer for Ferry International, a leading real estate agent coaching and training company. Before joining FerryIntl, RJ was Executive Vice President of Finance & Growth at eXp World Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPI), where he ran corporate & business development, financial planning & analysis, and investor relations.Prior to joining eXp World Holdings, RJ was VP of Investor and Corporate Relations at Zillow Group (NASDAQ: Z, ZG). While there he managed relationships with institutional shareholders and regularly presented the Zillow Group story to investor, industry and consumer audiences. He led efforts enabling the Company to raise over $2 billion through public equity and convertible offerings. He possesses extensive M&A experience as he was a key member of 8 deal teams totaling nearly $3 billion in transaction value.Prior to joining Zillow Group, RJ was chief marketing officer and partner with Kosmos Funds, a Seattle-based alternative investment manager, where he led the capital raising efforts for the initial $100 million startup fund. Previously, he worked as a hybrid buy-side and sell-side investment analyst directing up to $500 million of consumer and retail equities investments for Ragen Mackenzie of Wells Fargo Investments. He also previously ran investor relations for Nordstrom. Prior to that RJ joined the team that created the boutique investment bank, Delafield Hambrecht, where he led the consumer equity research efforts of the firm.RJ currently serves as a member of the board of directors at inAssist Health Solutions, a provider of automated auditing of health insurance for consumers that prevents errors and fraudulent billing. RJ was previously a PIPELINE National Mentor - PIPELINE is an exclusive community of entrepreneurial leaders building high-growth companies in the Midwest, supported with grants from the Kauffman Foundation. Before embarking on a civilian career, RJ was a Commissioned Officer in the United States Army. His assignments included company commander and platoon leader positions as a qualified airborne ranger and senior parachutist, with two deployments to Haiti for peace enforcement, peacekeeping and humanitarian missions. He holds a bachelor's in Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy and an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (50%)
- SaaS 2 (25%)
- Big Data 2 (25%)
- Information Technology 2 (25%)
- Sales 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (25%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 7 (88%)
- Canada 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humi is a payroll, benefits, and insurance platform developing cloud-based software to automate human resources processes. Its platform helps in employee recruiting and onboarding, time-off tracking, scheduling, payroll management, benefits administration, and performance monitoring and reporting. | $10.2M / Series A / Oct 10, 2019 | ||
| WASHINGTON, D.C. March 05, 2020 – HUNGRY Marketplace Inc., the Washington D.C. based platform connecting top chefs with businesses looking for the best in catered meals, today announced the close of its nearly $20 million Series B funding round. The round was led by former Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb and Evolution VC Partners. Additionalparticipants in the round included actor Kevin Hart, Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners, Los Angeles Ram Todd Gurley, Seattle Seahawk Bobby Wagner, Tampa Bay Buccaneer Ndamukong Suh, former White House chef Sam Kass, President Obama’s special assistant Reggie Love and Leonard Green Partners’ Jonathan Sokoloff. The investment brings the company’s total funding to $32.5 million. ABOUT HUNGRY: HUNGRY was founded by serial entrepreneurs Eman Pahlavani, Shy Pahlevani and Jeff Grass, as a revolutionary way for independent chefs to connect with the $60 billion business and events catering market. HUNGRY is committed to improving the communities it serves. Through its ‘Fight Against Hunger’ program, HUNGRY donates one meal to those in need for every two purchased. Additionally, its ‘WeRecycle’ program promotes environmental waste reduction by offering biodegradable plates and cutlery with its delivered meals. HUNGRY is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston and New York City. By the end of 2021, HUNGRY is projected to expand its footprint to a total of 23 U.S. cities. For more information, visit tryhungry.com. | $1.5M / Seed / Jun 13, 2018 | ||
| SoapBox Soaps primarily manufactures and supplies soaps. It provides soaps to families at homeless shelters, women shelters, and nursing homes in the United States; and donates its soaps internationally to various countries, including Ecuador, Haiti, Kenya, Thailand, and Uganda. The company markets and sells its soaps through retail stores andonline. Soapbox products reach the everyday consumer with the mission to change the world through quality purchases. All products are all made in the USA, with 100% recyclable packaging, and the products are sold in stores like Target, Marcs, Meijer, Walgreens, Rite Aid, and thousands of other retailers across the nation. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. | Seed / Sep 29, 2017 | ||
| Advocado is the first real-time cross-media optimization & audience platform that makes advertising perform better by using signals in the physical world (like TV Ads or in-program content) to trigger real-time actions across search, social and shopping platforms and building organic digital audiences based on advertiser affinity; all thewhile, collecting the data to prove value created. Ultimately, we help CMO’s and marketing leaders deliver better results while breaking down organizational silos and respecting consumer privacy. | $700K / Pre-Seed / Apr 08, 2017 | ||
| Our Patented Visual Customer Engagement Platform provides everyone the ability to safely and securely support your sales and service efforts for all of your digital customers whether on the web or via a native mobile app. With full-featured recording capabilities to complement our online sharing capabilities, Recursive Labs can provideenterprise-grade customer engagement from the consumer glass all the way to compliance. | Seed / Nov 22, 2016 | ||
| CYR3CON predicts cyber-attacks through a suite of solutions using artificial intelligence. CYR3CON's methods leverage multiple sources of data from various online hacker communities to avoid many cyber incidents by quantifying and predicting hacker actions before they launch their attacks.The company was founded in 2018 and based in Tempe,Arizona. | Pre-Seed / Oct 03, 2016 | ||
| Based in Baldwin City, KS, RG Fiber is eliminating the digital divide by bringing gigabit internet to the rest of us in small town America. We deliver a full suite of internet, phone, and (coming soon) TV to both businesses and residents. Please visit rgfiber.com for more information about RG Fiber and how it's bringing gigabit to the rest ofus. | Seed / Jun 06, 2016 | ||
| Kineta is a biotechnology company engaging in the discovery and development of antiviral therapies and immune-modulating drugs for the treatment of RNA viruses that include hepatitis C, influenza, West Nile virus, and the common cold. |
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What does RJ Jones invest in?
RJ Jones invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for RJ Jones closed in Oct 2019. Shizune tracks 8 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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