Jack Crawford
Following years of venture investing and portfolio management for Oracle, Jack Crawford and Eric Ball joined forces to launch Impact Venture Capital in 2016.
Alongside top corporate venture groups, Impact Venture Capital invests in early stage companies focused on artificial intelligence technology applied to security, finance, and digital health. In active collaboration with a broad network of corporate venture investors, Impact Venture Capital empowers entrepreneurs to dream big and to execute.
Jack Crawford sits on several boards of Impact’s portfolio companies including Cornami, an AI chip company focused on fully homomorphic encryption and confidential computing. Impact Venture Capital was an early investor in Cornami where Jack has played an integral role in support of the management team to raise rounds of financing, introduce customers, and recruit board members (including Jan Geldmacher, an operating partner at Softbank). Jack Crawford has historically invested in other chip and security companies like Soft Machines (acquired by Intel), Pondera Solutions (acquired by Thomson Reuters).
Prior to his 15+ year career in venture investing, Jack Crawford worked in accounting as a CPA at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, graduated from Harvard's Private Equity and Venture executive program, graduated from the Venture Capital Institute, and received a leadership award upon his graduation as a Kauffman Fellow.
Rich Jones
