Amish Jani

Founder & Partner at FirstMark

Amish Jani is a Founder and Partner of FirstMark and has been an active venture capitalist for over 20 years.

He invests broadly across the cloud and Internet landscape, including SaaS applications, ecommerce, infrastructure and more. Amish has been recognized by CB Insights and the New York Times as a Top 100 Venture Capitalist globally. In 2022, he was recognized by Business Insider in The Seed 100 (best early-stage investors) and named one of the 50 Most Important VCs in New York.

Amish has invested in industry-defining companies that include Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), Frame.io (acquired by Adobe), Pendo, Tracelink, Guru, Bluecore, InVision, IMImobile (LSE: IMO, acquired by Cisco), Schoology (acquired by PowerSchool), Boomi (acquired by Dell), Aveksa (acquired by EMC), and many more.

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 serves on the Undergraduate Executive Board of Wharton.

Amish Jani graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School and then went on to earn their MBA from the same school.

Amish Jani works with Eric Cheung - General Counsel, Adam Nelson - Partner, and Katie Mills - Executive Assistant. Their manager is Rick Heitzmann, Founder and Partner.

Timeline

  • Founder & Partner

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