Jared HeymanInvestor

Puerto Rico - ND

Jared Heyman is Managing Partner at Rebel Fund, a seed-stage venture fund that invests exclusively in Y Combinator startups.

Rebel (www.rebelfund.vc) aims to invest in the best 0.1% of the 30,000+ tech startups that apply each year to Y Combinator, the #1 accelerator in the world with 60+ unicorns and $600B+ in portfolio company value. The fund’s due diligence and investing decisions are made by a team of accomplished Y Combinator alumni who have founded companies now valued over $85B in aggregate, invested in 200+ startups, and generated top one-percentile portfolio returns. Rebel utilizes a proprietary machine-learning algorithm called Rebel Theorem to help validate and screen potential investments, building a diversified portfolio of top Y Combinator startups that is statistically powered to outperform.

He previously co-founded Pioneer Fund, a top-performing venture fund that pools capital and expertise from 200+ Y Combinator alumni to invest in YC startups.

Heyman is also the Executive Chairman of CrowdMed, which harnesses ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to solve difficult medical cases online. The company has raised millions in capital from top-tier Silicon Valley venture funds NEA, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen-Horowitz, Greylock, SV Angel, Y Combinator (W13) and more.

Jared has spent 20+ years as an Internet technology entrepreneur. He bootstrapped his first companies, the online survey firm Infosurv its spin-out, the online prediction market firm Intengo, to tens of millions in cumulative revenue before exiting operationally.

He has been featured on dozens of media outlets including Bloomberg TV, Fox News, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur magazine, TechCrunch, Wired, Fast Company, NPR, and more. He was also featured on the cover of Inc. magazine in November 2011 and gave a TEDMED talk in September 2014 that was broadcasted to 100k+ viewers. He has spoken at several major healthcare and technology events, including the Rock Health Innovation Summit, Personalized Medicine World Conference, Exponential Medicine, and CA World, and been a guest lecturer at Emory and Georgia Tech universities.

Heyman was formerly a consultant at Bain & Company and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Texas at Austin with majors in Business Honors and Marketing. He is the lead inventor on multiple US patents related to prediction market technology. He also serves as Trustee of the philanthropic Heyman Family Foundation.