Tarun joined Jump Capital in 2020 and leads the team on venture capital investment opportunities.

Prior to joining Jump, Tarun was on the corporate development team at Scientific Games where he helped the company complete eight acquisitions in the casino gaming, lottery, and sports betting space. Tarun began his career as an investment banking analyst at Livingstone Partners.

Tarun holds a BBA degree from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Areas of Interest
Sports Betting, Gaming, Fintech, Creator Economy, Retail Tech

Robb joined Jump in 2021 to build mechanisms that accelerate growth and create scale within Jump’s portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Jump, Robb was on the Corporate Business Development team at Amazon, supporting various business teams structure and negotiating complex, first-of-their-kind strategic partnerships. These partnerships were struck with leading fintech and payments players, and enabled product development spanning eCommerce, physical retail, cloud, logistics, and marketplace selling customers. Robb's early career spanned various operating roles, focused on business development, strategy, and product.

Robb earned a BS in Economics at Northwestern University and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

With over 20 years of executive and financial leadership experience, Mike has operated, advised and invested in companies across a broad range of industries and stages from startups to mature enterprises.

Prior to co-founding Jump Capital, he was a senior partner for Excelar Group LLC, a provider of strategic execution and advisory services. He also served as President of SIRVA, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company.

Mike spent sixteen years with GE and GE Capital in a breadth of financial, operating and global assignments and is an honors graduate from GE’s Financial Management and Leadership Development programs.

Mike attended Pennsylvania State University, where he graduated with highest distinction earning a BS in Finance.

Areas of Interest
FinTech, RetailTech, EdTech and Enterprise Software

Kasey joined Jump in 2016 and is the office operations manager. Prior to joining Jump, she was an associate at GCM Grosvenor where she spent 2 years supporting the fund finance department.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her children, traveling, yoga, meditation and is a connoisseur of all things gelato.

Kasey graduated with honors from the University of Iowa with a BA in Communication Studies.

Saaya joined Jump Capital in 2020 and leads new venture capital investment opportunities.

Prior to joining Jump, Saaya worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she spent time in the Private Equity practice and across a variety of strategy and operations projects.

Saaya attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned a BS in Computer Engineering.

Areas of Interest
Creator economy, Future of Work, Enterprise Education, Web3, Future of Commerce

Will Nunez joins Jump Capital with rich experience in big data and analytics platforms, focused on researching and implementing emerging software, along with developing scalable data products across consulting, cyber security, finance, law, and sports/entertainment domains. His educational background includes an MS in analytics from the University of Chicago and a BS in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

In this role, he will work across our investing areas supporting research, data collection, and analysis efforts while working closely with the investment team on identifying unique, innovative founders to partner with.

Yelena joined Jump in 2015 and is focused on new investments and current portfolio companies in media and enterprise software. Prior to joining Jump, Yelena was an investor with MK Capital, where she sourced new opportunities and actively supported MK’s portfolio companies. As an investor with MK Yelena made investments in enterprise software, cloud computing, and marketing technology. Previously she was an associate with McNally Capital, where she focused on energy and closed an investment in the clean energy space.

Before business school, Yelena was the finance manager for DreamWorks Studios, where she was actively involved in negotiating the studio’s raise of new capital and the adoption of a new global licensing strategy. Yelena began her career as an investment banker with UBS, where she advised companies in technology and media and raised over $1 billion in capital for clients.

Yelena holds a BA in economics with honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Chicago Booth.