Investing Profile

Benjamin Jealous

VCInvestor
Partner at Kapor Capital
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Networks Benjamin is a member of
Columbia University in the City of New York Network
167 CONNECTIONS
University of Oxford Network
158 CONNECTIONS
Kapor Capital Network
12 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Kapor Capital Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $200K
Sweet Spot
$175K
Investments On Record
4
Current Fund Size
$125M

Benjamin Jealous is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Benjamin Jealous's Investments On Record (3)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Curve Health
Series AFeb 2022$12M
$18M
Co-investors: Kristin Baker Spohn (CRV), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Ling Wong (Highbury Group), Kal Vepuri (Brainchild)
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Series ADec 2017
SeedJul 2016$3M
$59M
Co-investors: Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), Matthew Harris (Bain Capital Ventures), Ilya Kirnos (SignalFire), Chris Farmer (SignalFire), Tom Brown (Nyca Partners), David Blumberg (137 Ventures), Chris Gottschalk (Mouro Capital), Raj Date (Fenway Summer), Ryan Falvey (Restive Ventures), Kirby Harris (Base Ventures), Trevor Kienzle (Correlation Ventures), Sujay Jaswa (WndrCo LLC), Dan Kimerling (Deciens Capital), Clint Korver (Ulu Ventures), Miriam Rivera (Ulu Ventures), Erik Moore
Citizen
Series ASep 2017$12M
$110M
Co-investors: Jake Medwell (8VC), Will Porteous (RRE Ventures), Semil Shah (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Bryan Rosenblatt (Craft Ventures), Dave Morin (Offline Ventures), Alex Gurevich (Javelin Venture Partners), Chris Adelsbach (Black Tip Capital), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Dana Settle (Greycroft Partners), Ken Howery (Unknown Ventures), Steve Schlafman

Benjamin Jealous's Experience

Partner Kapor Capital2013 - Present
President and CEO NAACPPresent
Director, US Domestic Human Rights Program Amnesty InternationalPresent
Executive Director National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)Present
Managing Editor Jackson AdvocatePresent
President Rosenberg Foundation2005 - 2008

Benjamin Jealous's Education

University of Oxford MS Comparative Social Research
Columbia University in the City of New York BA Political Science