Jeff Bussgang
General Partnerat Flybridge Capital Partners
Greater Boston
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner and Co-Founder
2003 - Current
Seed stage venture capital firm based in Boston and New York City investing in ambitious founders leveraging the power of AI. With over $1 billion under management across seven seed funds and nine network funds, our portfolio includes BetterCloud, BitSight, Chief, Codecademy (acq: SKILL), FalconX, Firebase (acq: GOOG), MadeiraMadeira, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), OpenFX, Splice, and ZestAI.
Senior Lecturer
2012
Teach two second-year MBA classes in the entrepreneurship department: (1) Launching Technology Ventures (LTV), focusing on pre-product-market fit startups; and (2) Venture Capital Journey (VCJ), focusing on building a successful VC career. Authored over 80 HBS cases and teaching notes (a few popular cases include Bubble, Chief, Everlywell, Lightricks, Shippo, and Squire).
Managing Partner and Founder
2016
A series of micro funds ($20+m in total across four funds) that invests in pre-seed and seed startups founded by recent Harvard graduates, primarily HBS. Portfolio companies include Aerovect, Akooda, Aliro, Allianca Hospitalar, AllSpice, Alpha Vantage, Amartha, Anko, B.A.I., Banyan Infrastructure, BlitzyAI, BoldVoice, Boundless, BoxBot, Clasp, Condor, Connie Health, Coprata, Covalent, Edukita, EmCasa, Fazeshift, Funding Societies, Getaway, Gryps, H2OK, Habi, Halo Braid, Hardfin, Hemlane, HEVA, Hey Jane, Hive Health, Hue, Local Locker, LovePop, Mosaic, Noetica, Noolie, OnRamp, Osmosis, Remento, Ribbon Health, Syrup, Tomorrow.io, Toolbox, TopLine Pro, UpEquity, Visor, Wordsworth, X-COR, and Zubale.
The Graduate Syndicate is an investment firm.
Co-Founder and Board Chair
2016
Hack.Diversity tackles the underrepresentation of high-skilled, overlooked talent in the innovation ecosystem. We recruit computer science and engineering students into the most innovative, fastest-growing companies--training, coaching, and mentoring employer and employee throughout the experience. Across our eight cohorts, we have a network of 600+ Fellows who have gained entry into the tech ecosystem, impacting the wealth gap for thousands of families.
Hack.Diversity is the talent provider that helps remarkable people succeed by bridging the gap between the culture .
Raised $500,000.00 from Barr Foundation.
Seed Investor
2019
FalconX is the largest, most reliable digitalasses prime brokerage for the world's leading institutions. Announced financing led by GIC and Tiger at an $8 billion valuation in 2022.
FalconX is a blockchain, cryptocurrency, and fintech company focused on cryptocurrency brokerage and digital asset trading platforms.
Raised $476,999,952.00 from GIC, Adams Street Partners, B Capital, Tiger Global Management, Thoma Bravo and Wellington Management.
Seed Investor
2021
LatAm's first supply chain platform for micro, small, and medium enterprises, empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics, and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations.
Seed Investor
2024
OpenFX is redefining the future of global money movement. We're revolutizing global finance by enabling monety to flow as effortlessly as data, unbound by time zones, legacy systems, or banking hours. Our FX infrastructure transforms how finance teams operate, delivering cross-border transfers with industry-leading spreads, real-time settlement, and 24/7 availability.
Seed Investor
2022
Noetica enables leading law and financial services firms to distill terms-level data for corporate debt into deal insights.
Seed Investor
2021
Topline Pro enables service professionals to acquire direct business, faster. Essentially Shopify for service businesses.
Seed Investor
2022
Syrup Tech is an AI-powered predictive software venture for inventory excellent in commerce, empowering merchandisers and planners at omni-channel brands and retailers to make data-driven inventory decisions.
Predictive software for inventory decision-making in commerce, powered by AI/ML.
Raised $25,100,000.00 from Atacama Ventures, Accel, 1984 Ventures and Gradient.