Amish Jani co-founded FirstMark and invests in enterprise applications, commerce infrastructure and vertical software. He previously served as a Partner at Pequot Ventures and led early investments in companies including Shopify, Frame.io and Pendo.

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Amish Jani co-founded FirstMark and invests in enterprise applications, commerce infrastructure and vertical software. He previously served as a Partner at Pequot Ventures and led early investments in companies including Shopify, Frame.io and Pendo.

Career

Amish Jani studied at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (B.S., Economics (1999); M.B.A. (2000)).

Member, Undergraduate Executive Board at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania from 2022-07 to Present
Founder and Partner at FirstMark Capital from 2008 to Present
Board Member at Starry from 2014 to 2023-02
President and Chairman at FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp. from 2020-10 to 2022-03
Partner at Pequot Ventures until 2008

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To Board or Not to Board?

His argument for choosing directors whose incentives, governance judgment and experience align with the company.

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Why We Invested in VillageSQL: The MySQL Innovation Gap

Coauthored with Ryan Sullivan, a thesis on database extensibility and bringing AI workloads to existing business data without a migration.

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