Founder and founding partner at FuturePerfect Ventures
Jalak Jobanputra is an American businesswomen and entrepreneur. She founded the early-stage venture capital fund, FuturePerfect Ventures in 2014.[2] Prior to founding the fund, Jobanputra was a director at Omidyar Network and a senior vice president at the New York City Investment Fund.[3]
After completing her MBA, Jobanputra began working as an investor for Intel Capital until 2003. In 2005, while a principal at the fund, New Venture Partners, she founded Real Time Content, a personalized video ad platform company, and was interim CEO.[5][6] In 2008, while senior vice president of the New York City Investment Fund,[7][8] she helped to form the NYCSeed fund aimed at funding tech startups.[5] In 2012, after being a director of mobile investments at Pierre Omidyar's fund, Omidyar Network, Jobanputra joined RTP Ventures as a managing director.[9]
In 2014, Jobanputra founded the venture capital fund, FuturePerfect Ventures, one of the first funds worldwide to invest in nascent blockchain technology. The fund has invested in a number of notable companies including Abra, BitPesa, Everledger, Blockchain, Blockstream, Token, Current, and Maven.[10][11]
Jobanputra was awarded Institutional Investor’s Most Powerful Fintech Dealmakers from 2016-2018. In May 2018, Jobanputra was awarded Microsoft’s VC Trailblazer Award for “her early and bold” investments in the sector. She has been listed as a 100 Most Influential Fintech Leader of 2016 and 2017 based on her investment strategy at FPV. In 2017, she was cited as a “Top 5 Investor Powering the Blockchain Boom” and Crunchbase noted FPV as one of the top VC funds in blockchain “before it was cool.” [10] In 2015, she was selected to be a member of the Broadband Task Force, an initiative to bring internet to the low-income communities within New York City created by the Mayor, Bill de Blasio.[12]
