Gaingels
Jason is a tech, media & music executive with experience at leading corporations and startups including Google, Viacom, Disney, Deezer & 88rising.
Jason is Vice President at 88rising, where he leads business development & partnerships at the leading music company of the most influential Asian artists in the world. Previously Jason led business development at Google and music streaming unicorn Deezer. Prior to that, he held roles in traditional media at Disney and Viacom, and started his career on Wall Street in investment banking at UBS.
Jason advises and invests in startups and is passionate about diversity in VC. In 2019, he co-founded Out in Tech Miami, a city chapter of the largest national LGBTQ+ tech community. He also mentors the next generation of music startups as a Techstars Music mentor.
Born and raised in NYC, Jason resides in Miami and is an active participant in advancing Miami's tech community. He is on the National Advisory Council of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC.
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Gaingels is the leading venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT community and its allies. Through their 700+ individual members and family offices, they have invested over $50,000,000 into 120+ companies since 2016, with 80% of that since January 2019. Gaingels invests in companies with LGBT founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams. The Gaingels network actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments. Gaingels regularly co-invests with select VC leads across a variety of sectors, from technology to B2B, healthcare and consumer, in competitive and over-subscribed rounds from Seed to Growth/pre-IPO.