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Investor profile

Jed Katz

Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners

About

Jed Katz is a serial entrepreneur-turned-investor who helped build two notable early online real estate platforms (Rent Net and Move.com), giving him unusually deep operator-level experience in proptech before it became a hot VC category. He's known for emphasizing "sophistication over age" in founders—explicitly stating he doesn't care if a founder is 22 or 42 as long as they demonstrate sophisticated thinking about their market and metrics—and for breaking down fundraising into concrete, tactical playbooks rather than just high-level perspectives. Jed Katz is a serial entrepreneur-turned-investor who helped build two notable early online real estate platforms (Rent Net and Move.com), giving him unusually deep operator-level experience in proptech before it became a hot VC category. He's known for emphasizing "sophistication over age" in founders—explicitly stating he doesn't care if a founder is 22 or 42 as long as they demonstrate sophisticated thinking about their market and metrics—and for breaking down fundraising into concrete, tactical playbooks rather than just high-level perspectives.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Sectors
AI
SaaS
Consumer
FinTech
Enterprise

Investment details

Avg check size$250K - $6M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
Africa
LatAm
India
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Canada
Israel
ANZ
MENA