Amish Jani

Co-Founder & Partner at FirstMark Capital · Joined 2008

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Biography

Amish Jani is a Founder and Partner at FirstMark, where his bio describes investing across the cloud landscape including Enterprise Applications, Commerce Infrastructure and Vertical Software. He was previously a Partner with Pequot Ventures, and was one of four Pequot Ventures managing directors who spun the group out in 2008 to form FirstMark Capital. He holds a B.S. and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and serves on Wharton's Undergraduate Executive Board. He is a co-founder of the AI NY summit and leads the FirstMark Founders Guild.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

Shopify SHOPFrame.ioMomentumLoopTraceLinkPendoGravie

Board Seats

Career Timeline

2008
Left Pequot Ventures as one of four managing directors who spun the group out to form FirstMark Capital.
2017
Quoted as a founder and Managing Director of FirstMark Capital on Frame.io's $20 million Series B round, which FirstMark led.
2019
Named in the announcement of Loop's $10 million Series A funding round.
2024
Joined the board of Momentum when FirstMark led the company's $13 million Series A.
2026
Co-authored FirstMark's announcement of Salesforce's acquisition of Momentum.

Sources & References

FirstMark - Amish Jani ↗FirstMark - Team ↗TraceLink - Board Member Amish Jani ↗Private Equity Wire - Pequot Ventures to spin off as FirstMark Capital ↗Frame.io Announces Series B Growth Round of Funding Led by FirstMark Capital ↗Momentum - Announcing our $13M Series A led by FirstMark Capital and Stage 2 Capital ↗FirstMark - Announcing the Acquisition of Momentum by Salesforce ↗Loop Closes $10 Million Series A Funding Round ↗