Amish Jani
Co-Founder and Partner, FirstMark Capital
Amish Jani is a Co-Founder and Partner at FirstMark, where he focuses on investments across the cloud landscape, including Enterprise Applications, Commerce Infrastructure, Vertical Software and more.
He has led early investments in industry-defining companies including Shopify (NASDAQ:SHOP), Frame.io (acquired by Adobe), Momentum.io (acquired by Salesforce), Zilla Security (acquired by CyberArk), Pendo, Tracelink, Gravie, Loop, IMImobile (LSE: IMO, acquired by Cisco), Schoology (acquired by PowerSchool), Boomi (acquired by Dell), Aveksa (acquired by EMC), and more.
Amish has been recognized by CB Insights and the New York Times as a Top 100 Venture Capitalist globally, and named to Business Insider’s The Seed 100 (best early-stage investors) and 50 Most Important VCs in New York lists multiple times. He is Co-Founder of AINY, New York’s preeminent annual summit for the world’s top Cloud CEOs, and leads the FirstMark Founders Guild — a private community for New York’s most promising seed-stage Founders.
Prior to founding FirstMark, Amish served as a Partner with Pequot Ventures. Amish holds both a B.S. and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the Undergraduate Executive Board of Wharton.