Jason Jones

HighStep Capital, an investment firm the finds and invests in innovation, with a particular focus on the impact of the Internet on business & society. HighStep Capital has two divisions, a public markets team the runs a global Internet focused long/short equity fund and a private markets team, which helps established private companies solve their cap table and liquidity needs by investing in secondary shares offered by employees, ex-employees, angel investors, and VC investors.

HighStep Capital is a long/short equity hedge fund focused on successful Internet businesses and companies that have been disrupted by the Internet. HighStep also consults with large institutional investors to construct portfolios of private shares purchased through secondary transactions.

BIO

Jason Jones is the founder of HighStep Capital, an investment firm the finds and invests in innovation, with a particular focus on the impact of the Internet on business & society. HighStep Capital has two divisions, a public markets team the runs a global Internet focused long/short equity fund and a private markets team, which helps established private companies solve their cap table and liquidity needs by investing in secondary shares offered by employees, ex-employees, angel investors, and VC investors.

Prior to founding HighStep, Jason worked as an Internet focused portfolio manager at J. Goldman & Co, a NYC long/short equity hedge fund. Previously, he was an Internet analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co and he was a venture capital analyst at Cambridge Associates. He has also co-founded four venture backed, web-based startups and he has consulted with Connotate Technologies and MasterCard on investment related data mining. Jason received his BS from Babson College and his MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.