Jinal Jhaveri's blog

Investments

I like to make angel and secondary investments in technology companies with a special interest in Educational Technology and B2B SAAS companies. If you want to fundraise, please feel free to contact me on Linkedin or email me at jinal at lognllc dot com. I will also help you start companies in education technology and B2B SAAS by providing capital and sharing ideas that I think have the potential to be huge. I will also help you build engineering, product, and customer success teams. If you are an aspiring technology founder (anywhere in the world), who has the following skills and wants to start a company, reach out to me.

  • Who can code or has written code in the past and knows how to build technology products
  • Who can sell (to customers, employees and investors)
  • Who can learn fast
  • Who is hard working
  • Who is analytical
  • Who doesn’t give up easily
  • Who is obsessed about serving their customers
  • Who is nice and easy to work with

Here are some ideas I would like to invest in.

Edtech

  • Products that are a must-have (not nice-to-have). Typically these products are used by their users regularly, and the value users get from these products continues to go up as they use them more.
  • Solving a real workflow problem for prek-12 schools and colleges.
  • Companies disrupting existing players in preK-12 and higher-ed market. Typically these existing players have great product-market fit and huge total addressable market but have constantly underserved their customers by providing bad customer service, by not treating their employees well and by not innovating on their products.
  • Companies disrupting existing business models (e.g. Freemium / Trials vs Only sales led motion)
  • Companies applying AI in education.
  • Companies helping teachers innovate in how they teach. Helping kids learn in creative ways and helping parents support their kids in creative ways.
  • College Prep Application Platforms.
  • Founders of successful Series A+ or Bootstrapped Edtech companies looking for liquidity.
  • Companies helping students become entrepreneurs

Prior Angel and Secondary Investments

  • Educational Technology (Edtech)
    • CourseDog (Acquired by JMI Equity)
    • GlimpseK12 (Acquired by LevelData/BV)
    • Epic Education (Secondary – Acquired by Byju’s)
    • SV Academy
    • KickUp
    • WonderSchool(Syndicate)
    • Tailor-Ed
    • BoostMySchool
    • Tappity
    • Prendea (Exited)
    • Thankview(Acquired)
    • GetSetUp(syndicate)
    • Scaffold-Ed
    • Ordo Schools

  • Other
    • Facebook (Secondary – Public)
    • Square (Secondary – Public)
    • Github ((Secondary – Acquired)
    • Zuora (Secondary – Public)
    • Lyft (Secondary – Public)
    • Pinterest (Secondary – Public)
    • CreditKarma(Secondary – Acquired)
    • Postmates (Secondary – Acquired)
    • Palantir (Secondary – Public)
    • PoshMark (Secondary – Public/Acquired)
    • GitLab (Secondary – Public)
    • 23andme (Secondary – Public)
    • Marqeta (Secondary – Public)
    • Blend (Secondary – Public)
    • Cohesity (Secondary – Private)
    • Automattic (Secondary – Private)
    • Invision (Secondary – Private)
    • OutReach (Secondary – Private)
    • Calm (Secondary – Private)
    • Impossible Foods (Secondary – Private)
    • LendingHome (Secondary – Private)
    • Headspace (Secondary – Private)
    • Udacity (Secondary – Private)
    • SendBird (Secondary – Private)
  • Angel
    • OctiFi (Acquired)
    • CaptivateIQ
    • Mudrex
    • Jutso
    • Aviron
    • SwiftSKU
    • Fathom
    • AbstractOps
    • Cabal
    • Pandium