Jules Maltz
General Partner
Highlight Investments
Joined IVP
August 2008
Investments
- Buddy Media (CRM)
- Checkr
- Dropbox (DBX)
- Grammarly
- Hims
- Indiegogo
- Marketo (MKTO)
- MuleSoft
- NerdWallet
- Oportun
- RetailMeNot (SALE)
- Slack
- SteelBrick (CRM)
- Spiceworks
- Tala
- TransferWise
- TuneIn
- Twitter (TWTR)
- Yext (YEXT)
- Zendesk (ZEN)
- Zenefits
Previous experience
- 3i
- AdMob
- AdNectar
- Robertson Stephens
- Bank of America Securities
Education
M.B.A. from Stanford University, where he was a Siebel Scholar and an Arjay Miller Scholar. Jules also graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Economics from Yale University
Hobbies
Changing diapers, tennis, running, hiking and hiking while changing diapers
Jules' recent writing:
- Nothing to Hide – Announcing IVP’s Investment in TransferWise
- Thank you, Yext
- The Future of Finance – Announcing IVP’s Investment in Tala
- The ABCs of QTC – Why IVP Invested in SteelBrick
- A Month of Zen
- How Fast Should You Be Growing? ( TechCrunch )
- The Superstitious Investor ( Nir & Far )
- Choose Your Mobile Business Model Wisely ( The Wall Street Journal )
- Freemium Software: A Guide for Startups ( Whitepaper )
- For Buddy Media, different was good ( Fortune )
- Don’t Follow The Crowd ( TechCrunch )
- Raising The Most Money Doesn't Mean Your Company Will Become The Most Valuable ( TechCrunch )
- Ask a VC: Who's Your Customer? What's Your Product? ( Forbes )
- better late than never
