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Sector: Technology
Rachel Feely-Kohl
Rachel Feely-Kohl joined F-Prime in January 2018, where she leads the platform team for the tech fund. Prior to F-Prime Rachel spent four years in Chicago supporting community growth and expansion for high-growth companies, including WeWork and Startup Institute. Immediately prior to joining F-Prime, Rachel was the Head of Community for FinTEx Chicago, a FinTech industry association, where she oversaw program development and membership. She began her career working for non-profits, where she helped launched entrepreneurial-focused community programs in the US and abroad.
Rachel received her BA in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland-College Park.
Jay Farber
Jay Farber is a Venture Partner at F-Prime, where he leads early-stage investments in FinTech and SaaS companies. Jay joined F-Prime in 2015. He has led or participated in investments in Ashby, Papaya Payments, AvantStay, Quovo, Snapsheet, Vestwell, and System2.
Jay is also General Manager of the technology (GPX) business at Juniper Square, a leading institutional fund administrator and technology provider to VC, PE, and PERE funds. Juniper Square’s clients manage more than $1T in investor capital.
Jay is physically a Bay Area resident and culturally a Seattleite, but has invested across the country and does not hold the Patriots fandom of his F-Prime colleagues against them (mostly).
Lighthouse
Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight) is the leading commercial platform for the travel & hospitality industry. We transform complexity into confidence by providing actionable market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools that maximize revenue growth. We continually innovate to deliver the best platform for hospitality professionals to price more effectively, measure performance more efficiently, and understand the market in new ways. Trusted by over 65,000 hotels in 185 countries, Lighthouse is the only solution that provides real-time hotel and short-term rental data in a single platform. We strive to deliver the best possible experience with unmatched customer service. We consider our clients as true partners—their success is our success.
Threat Stack
Threat Stack enables growth-driven companies to scale securely and meet complex cloud security needs by identifying and verifying insider threats, external attacks, and data loss in real time. With a comprehensive approach to intrusion detection, Threat Stack empowers security and operations to better manage risk and compliance across their entire infrastructure, including cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and containerized environments. Threat Stack was acquired by F5 Networks in 2021.
Axoni
Axoni is a New York-based technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure with clients that include many of the world’s largest financial institutions and capital markets infrastructure companies. Founded in 2013 by a team of distributed ledger technology experts, the company offers blockchain infrastructure, distributed application development, and workflow automation tools.
Optimus Ride
The unique makeup of the Optimus Ride team includes over 30 years of shared experience on the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in self-driving technologies, electric vehicles, mobility-on-demand and other transportation systems. The team also has a decade of industrial and entrepreneurial experience spanning manufacturing robots, medical robots, shared vehicle fleet management and urban design. Building on this significant knowledge, the company will continue to leverage the latest advances in complex sensor fusion, mapping, computer vision and machine learning to ultimately deploy a new form of transportation system that enables safe, sustainable and equitable mobility access. This company was acquired by Magna in 2022.
John Vigeant
John Vigeant is a Venture Partner with F-Prime and a recognized leader in the devops and security communities. John is VP, Americas for ObserveIT, the world’s #1 Insider Threat Management Solution. Previously John was CEO of Reddo Mobility, a code-less provider of enterprise mobility solutions for large enterprises and CEO of Tracelytics (acquired by AppNeta), a SaaS-based application performance management (APM) solution that provides deep visibility into the performance of distributed Web applications.
Earlier in his career, John led business development for XenSource until its acquisition by Citrix for $500M. John continued with Citrix until 2011 when he joined Reddo Mobility. John serves as an advisor to many early stage technology companies and is a valued resource to our portfolio companies on product strategy and operations.
Artemis Health
Artemis Health helps companies utilize their data to optimize their benefits programs while minimizing their spend. The Artemis Platform provides customers with actionable data on their benefits programs, opportunities and gaps, and easy-to-use tools to help them make great decisions. Artemis Health was acquired by Nomi Health in 2022.
Buoy Health
Buoy is an online symptom and cure checker that uses an intelligent algorithm backed by medical data to diagnose patients.