Jared Kopf

Current

• President, Chairman at RoundTrip
• Investor, Helper, Advisor at Thentic / thentic.com
• Co-founder & CEO at Adroll.com / Semantic Sugar, Inc.

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Past

• Helper, Advisor at FooMojo
• Helper, Advisor at Boxbe, Inc.
• Co-founder; Director at Slide

• Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Co-founder. at MRL Ventures, Inc. / Midtown Doornail
• Helper, Advisor at Palantir Technologies
• Director, Venture Investments at Clarium Capital Management
• Assistant to the CEO at PayPal
• Consultant at FTHM
• Co-founder, Director, Board Member. at Justarrive, Inc.

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Education

• Stanford University

Recommended

5 people have recommended Jared

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Jared Kopf’s Summary

Senior consumer Internet services professional with 2+ years in venture capital and 5+ years of executive management, product development and operations experience. Strong belief in: working with friends, building great teams and new industries.

Jared Kopf’s Specialties:

Design, development and management of consumer Internet services and products. Investing personally and financially in great ideas and teams. Recent experience: Slide, Chatango, Yelp, Adzaar, MRL Ventures, Inc., The Founders Fund/Clarium Capital Management LLC, PayPal, Justarrive.

Jared Kopf’s Experience

• President, Chairman

  RoundTrip

  (Online Media industry)

  July 2009 — Present (5 months)

  RoundTrip, from AdRoll, is the only self-service advertising system for recapturing lost sales quickly and easily, with no minimum budget. RoundTrip allows you to target customers with ads after they leave your website.

• Investor, Helper, Advisor

  Thentic / thentic.com

  (Food & Beverages industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

  Thentic is your source for authentic information about food and drink.
  
  For producers, Thentic is a marketing platform to reach new consumers and deepen relationships with existing customers.

• Co-founder & CEO

  Adroll.com / Semantic Sugar, Inc.

  (Online Media industry)

  March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Adroll helps advertisers find appropriate audiences for their products across high-quality, niche independent websites. Our targeting platform aggregates sites and packages them together. We make relevant audiences discoverable and buyable. Founded company. CEO until March 2009, then became President. Still Chairman.

• Helper, Advisor

  FooMojo

  (Entertainment industry)

  October 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 4 months)

  FooMojo is the creator of FooPets, the world’s most realistic and emotionally engaging virtual pets.

• Helper, Advisor

  Boxbe, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  May 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)

  Boxbe is an email approval network. Think: social whitelist. Plus public forwarding address. Try it -- email me: jared@boxbe.com.

• Co-founder; Director

  Slide

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2005 — March 2006 (1 year 3 months)

  "[Slide] offers people the ability to engage and have fun with one another using the relationships they've already developed on social networks like Facebook and MySpace. The social networks benefit from increased activity, advertisers benefit from an exuberant audience, and our users can just enjoy themselves (where they already like to hang out)."

• Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Co-founder.

  MRL Ventures, Inc. / Midtown Doornail

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 5 months)

  Instrumental in launch of four Internet companies in 18 months. Instrumental in killing 2-3 dozen "almost companies" in the same timeframe. Initial CEO/COO of two incubated businesses.

• Helper, Advisor

  Palantir Technologies

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — April 2005 (4 months)

• Director, Venture Investments

  Clarium Capital Management

  (Privately Held; Investment Management industry)

  November 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 5 months)

  Led venture investment practice at Clarium Capital Management LLC (renamed to The Founder's Fund, 2005). Sourced, executed and served the boards of several noteworthy investments, including the seed or Series A investments of LinkedIn, GameFly, LiveOps and Ironport. Provided investment diligence and support on investments in Xoom and Friendster.

• Assistant to the CEO

  PayPal

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PYPL; Computer Software industry)

  June 2002 — October 2002 (5 months)

  Reported to the CEO and Chairman of PayPal. Worked with other members of senior management team and board on projects in corporate development, financial planning and analysis, strategic planning and investor relations.

• Consultant

  FTHM

  (Management Consulting industry)

  November 2001 — May 2002 (7 months)

  Consulting for consumer product and technology companies.

• Co-founder, Director, Board Member.

  Justarrive, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 3 months)

  Co-founded Justarrive, world's first integrated electronic ticketing platform for sales, delivery and re-distribution via online marketplace of event tickets. Spearheaded company fundraising efforts, recruiting and consumer product design.

Jared Kopf’s Education

• Stanford University

  BS, BA , Interaction Design (independently approved), English , 1995 — 1999