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Jason Boehmig

Jason Boehmig is an American technology founder and former corporate attorney who co-founded Ironclad, a San Francisco contract lifecycle management company, in 2014 and led it as CEO until 2025.

Jason Bornstein

Jason Bornstein is a venture capital investor who serves as Partner and Head of Research at Forerunner Ventures, a consumer-focused firm, after an operating career at menswear brand Bonobos.

Jason Calacanis

Jason Calacanis is an American serial entrepreneur turned angel investor who runs LAUNCH, was Sequoia Capital's first scout, and co-hosts the All-In Podcast and This Week in Startups.

Jason Carroll (businessman)

Jason Carroll is a businessperson who cofounded the New York automated proprietary trading firm Hudson River Trading in 2002 and, per Bloomberg in 2026, holds an estimated $27 billion stake.

Jason Chang (ASE Technology Holding)

Jason Chang, born Zhang Qiansheng in 1944, is a Taiwanese businessman who co-founded ASE in Kaohsiung in 1984 and chairs ASE Technology Holding, the world's largest chip assembly and testing provider.

Jason Cong

Jason Cong (Jingsheng Cong) is a distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA who directs the VAST Laboratory and founded five EDA startups, all acquired, three by Xilinx.

Jason Green

Jason Green is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Emergence Capital, investing early in Yammer, ServiceMax, SteelBrick, and Box, and ranking 93rd on Forbes' 2017 Midas List.

Jason Hirschman

Jason Hirschman is an American private investor who runs Hudson 215 Capital, a Nevada family office, and is known for turning five figures into nine figures through microcap stock picking.

Jason Kapalka

Jason Kapalka is a Canadian game designer and entrepreneur who co-founded the Seattle casual-game studio PopCap Games in 2000, co-created Bejeweled, and later founded Blue Wizard Digital.

Jason Kelly

Jason Kelly is an American biotechnology executive who co-founded the synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks in 2008, led its $15 billion NYSE listing in 2021, and remains CEO.

Jason Maynard

Jason Maynard is an American business executive who co-founded Mount Kellett Capital Management in 2008, leading its Asia business after heading Goldman Sachs' Asian Special Situations Group.

Jason McCarthy

Jason McCarthy, born 1975, is an American proprietary trader, MIT class of 1997, and former Jane Street partner who founded the New York quantitative trading firm Five Rings.

Jason Melton

Jason Melton is an American growth-equity investor and Partner at Long Ridge Equity Partners, which he joined in 2014 and where he was promoted to Partner in January 2023.

Jason Njoku

Jason Njoku (Jason Chukwuma Njoku) is a Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded and leads iROKOtv, the Nollywood streaming platform often called the "Netflix of Africa", launched from the UK in 2011.

Jason Rhodes

Jason Rhodes is a life sciences venture capitalist and Partner at Atlas Venture since 2014, known as founding CEO of Dyne Therapeutics, Rectify Pharmaceuticals, and Disarm Therapeutics.

Jason Risch

Jason Risch is a partner at Greylock Partners, the Silicon Valley venture firm, where since 2019 he has invested in cybersecurity, AI, and cloud infrastructure companies like Wiz and Cribl.

Jason Rubin

Jason Rubin is an American video game designer who co-founded Naughty Dog, creator of Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter, and later led virtual reality content at Oculus and Meta.

Jason Schoettler

Jason Schoettler is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Calibrate Ventures in 2017 with Kevin Dunlap, a Pasadena firm investing in AI and robotics after his fifteen years at Shea Ventures.

Jason West

Jason West is a video game designer who co-created the Call of Duty franchise at Infinity Ward, then co-founded Respawn Entertainment with Vince Zampella in 2010.

Jason Wu

Jason Wu, also known as Jian Wu, is a Chinese venture investor who worked on robotics and industrial internet investments at Source Code Capital from 2015 to 2024.

Jasper Rand, Jr.

Jasper Rand, Jr. was an American industrialist of Westfield, Massachusetts, who co-founded the Rand Drill Company in 1871 and served as its treasurer; the company merged in 1905 to form Ingersoll Rand.

Jasper Therapeutics

Jasper Therapeutics is a Redwood City, California biotechnology company, public on Nasdaq since 2021, whose lead drug briquilimab targets mast cell diseases including chronic urticaria.

Jasper Wireless (Cisco Jasper)

Jasper Wireless, also known as Jasper Technologies, was a California software company founded in 2004 that managed cellular connectivity for IoT devices; Cisco acquired it for $1.4 billion in 2016.

Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat

Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat is an Indian businesswoman who was one of seven women who founded the Lijjat Papad co-operative in Mumbai in 1959, and received the Padma Shri in 2021.

Javelin Venture Partners

Javelin Venture Partners is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm led by Noah Doyle and Jed Katz, investing $500 thousand to $4 million in technology start-ups.

Javier de Echevarria Carreres

Javier de Echevarria Carreres is a Spanish genomics entrepreneur who co-founded Veritas Intercontinental in Madrid in 2018 and has led it as chief executive since then.

Javier Luengo Egido

Javier Luengo Egido is a Spanish businessman, grandson of Grupo SAMCA's founder Ángel Luengo, who has presided the family industrial group from Ariño, Aragón since a 2010 succession pact.

Jay Alix

Jay Alix is an American restructuring executive and investor who founded AlixPartners in Detroit in 1981 and pioneered the Chief Restructuring Officer role in large corporate bankruptcies.

Jay Bloom

Jay Bloom is a Las Vegas investor known for the failed Las Vegas Mob Experience and for declining seats on the Titan submersible before its 2023 implosion.

Jay Flatley

Jay Flatley is an American genomics executive who was CEO of Illumina, the San Diego DNA-sequencing company, from 1999 to 2016, driving its growth through the 2007 Solexa acquisition.