Jared Hecht, Angel Investor

Jared Hecht is an investor at Union Square Ventures and co-founder of GroupMe, acquired by Skype/MSFT, and Fundera, acquired by NerdWallet. He also built Magellan, where he invested in and supported companies such as WISE, Sweetgreen, Truebill, Chess.com, Roam, and Flatiron, while helping launch ventures like Splice and Blade. His career spans entrepreneurship, venture building, and early-stage investing, with a track record of scaling consumer and fintech platforms to acquisition and profitability. As an angel investor, Hecht has supported Oboe, a Series A company developing AI-driven workflow automation tools, and Timehop, a seed-stage startup focused on digital memory and social content.