Investor profile
Ben Jen
Accelerator, Operator-led, Private equity, Syndicate / Angel group, Venture capital & Angel Investor at MicroVentures, Mentor & Judge at MassChallenge, Managing Director at Ben Jen Holdings, Managing Partner at 1435 Capital Management
Ben Jen is a Mentor & Judge at MassChallenge, whose known portfolio counts 10 companies.
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Investment focus
- Focus
- BatteryBiotechClean EnergyDeepTechEquity Crowdfunding PlatformHealthcare OperationsLendingMedTechOrgan BankingPaymentsSustainabilityWealth Management
Contacts
Affiliated funds' portfolios
Angel Investor at MicroVentures, whose known portfolio counts 10 companies
- Acorns
- Impossible Metals
- BioSapien
- Polco
- Bucha Bio
- Remedium Bio
- Encapsulate
- AnFin
- CiSApp
- ODWEN
Mentor & Judge at MassChallenge, whose known portfolio counts 10 companies
- KIT-AR
- TrueToForm
- UMNAI
- Beyond The Optics Vision Systems
- Bio Natural Solutions
- Blusink
- Fibre Folks
- Samudra Oceans
- SentiSystems
- Steribake
Managing Director at Ben Jen Holdings, whose known portfolio counts 1 company
- Pricklee
Managing Partner at 1435 Capital Management, whose known portfolio counts 1 company
- BMI OrganBank
Investor Profile
Founders in the listed sectors Climate, Consumer, FinTech and Hardware, and focus areas Battery, Biotech, Clean Energy and DeepTech fall inside that listing.
Stage-wise, the deals at MassChallenge cluster around Growth, Late-Stage and Pre-Seed rounds.
What the affiliated firm has backed is the closest available signal on whether Ben Jen is worth approaching.
Colleagues
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Global Governing Board Director
Dallas, United States
Wendell Su
Startup Mentor
Boston, United States
Larry Epstein
Mentor to Champions
Boston, United States
Junaid Mian
Investor
Skillman, United States
Ben Kromnick
Startup Mentor
San Francisco, United States
Mirall Shalhoub
Business Coach
Helsinki, Finland
Sooah Cho
Judge & Mentor
San Francisco, United States
Patricia Sink
Mentor
United States
Bill Clark
CEO and Founder
Austin, United States
Greg Smith
Judge & Mentor
Acton, United States
Vik Kachoria
Mentor/Judge
Atlanta, United States
Millie Liu
Mentor/Judge
Cambridge, United States
Shirley Lu
Mentor
New York, United States
Bettina Briz
Mentor / Advisor
Palo Alto, United States
Mitchell Kleinhandler
Mentor
New York, United States
Ernesto Paiz
Venture Partner
Austin, United States
Andrés Jiménez Pacheco
Managing Director
Berlin, Germany
Caitlin Reimers Brumme
Chief Executive Officer
Waban, United States
Jared Lucas
Investor
Boston, United States
Stella Lovén
Chief Executive Officer
Stockholm, Sweden
Frequently asked questions
Who is Ben Jen?
Ben Jen is an accelerator partner and operator-led investor based in New York City, United States, listed as Mentor & Judge at MassChallenge. The known portfolio of that firm counts 10 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Ben Jen personally.
What does Ben Jen invest in?
Listed sectors include Climate, Consumer, FinTech and Hardware; listed focus areas include Battery, Biotech, Clean Energy and DeepTech. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Ben Jen invest at?
MassChallenge appears in Growth, Late-Stage and Pre-Seed rounds across its known deals, and Ben Jen is listed there as Mentor & Judge. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Ben Jen listed at?
Ben Jen is listed as Mentor & Judge at MassChallenge. 21 other people in the database share a firm with Ben Jen.
How do I contact Ben Jen?
An email address, a phone number and a LinkedIn page are on file for Ben Jen. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account.
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