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Jul 2024
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How to Raise Venture Capital with Jason ...

BRANDON WHITE
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Jason talks how to raise venture capital and lessons learned from portfolio companies at Bull City Venture Partners.

Jason Caplain

Jason is a General Partner and Co-Founder of Bull City Venture Partners and has been a venture capitalist for over two decades. Prior to co-founding BCVP, Jason co-founded Southern Capitol Ventures. Previously, he was at Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) in their finance group through the successful IPO in 1999. Before joining Red Hat, Jason was at Harrison Hurley and Company, an investment banking and business-consulting firm headquartered in Providence, RI.

Jason is a board member at Levitate and Tiny Earth Toys and serves as a board observer at Spiffy and Viably. Past Board or Observer seats include ChannelAdvisor (NYSE:IPO), Circonus (acquired by Apica), Contactually (acquired by Compass), DoublePositive (acquired by OSG), Etix (management-led buyout), Medfusion (acquired by NextGen Healthcare), ServiceTrade, Synthematix (acquired by Symmx Technologies) and WeddingWire (acquired by Permira).

He is also on the Investment Advisory Board for Virginia Venture Partners, consistently the most active seed investor in Virginia. 

Jason received his BS in Finance from Bentley University. He lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife, son and two daughters.

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