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Jack Klinck

Hyperplane Venture Capital

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Feb 2023
Best Egg is a consumer financial technology platform that aims to help people feel more confident about their everyday finances through a suite of products and resources. Our digital financial platform offers simple, accessible, and personalized financial solutions including personal loans, credit cards, and a financial health resource center. Our culture and values are one of the core reasons why our customers keep returning to Best Egg. We are committed to championing a culture of inclusiveness and diversity of thought, and we focus on providing a safe, flexible, and collaborative work environment. Our associates are encouraged to engage in creative problem solving, and we promote opportunities for growth and enrichment across the organization. If you are inspired by inspiring others, Best Egg is the place for you.
Board Member
Dec 2019
Allstacks is an agentic platform for product and software development. With purpose-built solutions with agents operating in the same context across the lifecycle you define the right work, keep the delivery on track, and report on the outcomes. Product Studio is your daily home to ideate, define, refine, and share requirements and specs with technical clarity so you and your dev teams build the right things, faster and cheaper. Allstacks makes sense of your agentic software delivery, grounded in actual activity, with agents to surface risk, measure AI impact, and recommend optimizations.
Board Member
Nov 2018
RoadBotics by Michelin empowers communities to make objective, data-driven decisions about their roads and infrastructure. We automate inspections and generate actionable data about road networks. Our detailed maps, unbiased ratings, and practical tools save time and taxpayer dollars for hundreds of communities across the country and around the world.
Board Member
Aug 2018
TowerIQ - A ReSourcePro Company. Everything your team and insureds need in a single solution. TowerIQ’s platform provides a complete set of tools to unlock your team’s maximum productivity for new business and renewals for a fraction of your current costs. If it doesn't fit on ACORD it belongs in towerIQ. TowerIQ is supported by industry leaders and investments from Hyperplane Venture Capital, Clocktower Ventures, Laconia Capital Group and Vestigo Ventures.
Board Member
May 2018
Proof℠ is the worlds first identity-assured transaction management platform. Developed by the same market leaders and experts who brought notarization online with Notarize℠, Proof offers trust in a digital world by verifying identities and securing transactions to protect your business and its customers. When risk is low and speed matters, get it signed. When the law dictates it, get it notarized. When trust matters, you need Proof.
Board Member
Mar 2017
Fintech Sandbox is a nonprofit that helps fintech startups build great products. Founded in 2014, Fintech Sandbox provides critical data access and development resources to fintech entrepreneurs around the world. With this advantage, our startups build proven and resilient products, enabling innovative partnerships with financial institutions that address the industry’s most pressing challenges. In addition to our Data Access Residency, Fintech Sandbox also hosts Boston Fintech Week - an annual celebration of the FinTech community - and runs the Mass Fintech Hub - an initiative to drive continued success and growth for the Massachusetts FinTech ecosystem. Learn More: Apply for Data Access Residency - https://fintechsandbox.org/application-fintech-sandbox-data-access-program Boston Fintech Week - https://bostonfintechweek.org/ Mass Fintech Hub - https://massfintechhub.com/
Board Member
Nov 2016
Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is a commerce media platform, powered by our publishers’ first-party purchase data, that makes commerce smarter and more rewarding for everyone. We offer a range of solutions to help advertisers and publishers, including financial institutions, grow and strengthen customer loyalty. With visibility into approximately half of all card-based transactions in the U.S. and a quarter in the U.K., Cardlytics enables advertisers to engage consumers at scale and drive incremental sales through our industry-leading financial media network. Publisher partners can enhance their platforms with relevant and personalized offers that improve the shopping experience for their customers. Cardlytics also offers identity resolution capabilities through Bridg, which helps convert anonymous shoppers into known and reachable customers. Headquartered in Atlanta, Cardlytics has offices in Menlo Park, Los Angeles, Champaign, New York, London and Taipei City. Learn more at www.cardlytics.com.
Board Member
Oct 2016
Xpansiv® operates the world’s largest integrated, open and neutral market infrastructure for the global energy transition. Through Xpansiv’s comprehensive end-to-end technology platform, which covers the entire lifecycle of environmental commodities, the company connects diverse markets and participants worldwide playing a pivotal role in scaling the energy transition.
Board Member
Aug 2015
At OnCorps, our mission is to elevate work and performance by applying AI to handle predictable and laborious calculations, decisions, and tasks. We provide advanced AI solutions to the financial services industry. Our system has substantially reduced manual work, errors and risk. We solve problems with cross-disciplinary teams, from top-tier research universities and consultancies with industry, data science, and computer science expertise. Our pioneering algorithms have shown dramatic results. Our operational AI systems have reduced labor costs by over 90 percent. Our algorithms have identified millions in errors. And our forecasting systems have consistently beaten client forecasts. Our success has led to strong demand, attracting clients with over $9 trillion in assets under management - 20 percent of the global mutual fund industry. Our innovative algorithms have earned us the 2019 NOVA Award by NICSA and the 2019 Fintech Breakthrough Award for best banking infrastructure software. Our business model has also achieved breakthrough results. We have consistently designed and deployed complex AI solutions in less than 100 days. We do this by leveraging state-of-the-art cloud technologies to design workflows, train algorithms, and integrate with legacy systems. Expert, cross-disciplinary teams deploy these technologies rapidly. In all cases, our clients have paid no external consulting fees nor required internal technical team support. We believe results from AI can only be achieved by providing constant, high-end support. We provide process, algorithm, and systems support delivered by the same team that designed the solution. This simple difference reduces significant inefficiencies and elevates our service far beyond that of any other firm. We are committed to delivering to our clients the most cutting-edge solutions possible. To accomplish this, we work closely with scientific advisors from Yale, Harvard, and Oxford to formulate and test algorithms.
Experience · 14 entries
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2025
Advisor
May 2025
Founded in 2007, Long Ridge invests in growth stage companies that are transforming financial and business technology. With $1.75 billion under management, Long Ridge partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build sector leaders. The firms collaborative approach, coupled with deep industry expertise, makes Long Ridge the partner of choice for industry-leading management teams. Representative investments include BlueTarp Financial, Broadway Technology, Browz, Carson Group, and Portware. Long Ridge is based in New York City and can be contacted at www.long-ridge.com.
2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
With 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes and bringing increased security, enhanced resilience and soundness to financial markets. In 2022, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $2.5 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $72 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 17.5 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. View our Social Media Community Rules of Engagement: https://www.dtcc.com/press-room/social-media-rules-of-engagement
2023
Advisory Board Member
Jun 2023
Clarendon Partners is dedicated to shaping the future of operations through delivering innovations designed to fully benefit your digital transformation strategy. Our team brings experience from multiple industries where we have gained a deep understanding of both the lifecycle of high-growth companies and the complexity of companies in highly regulatory requirements. We define long-term roadmaps and deliver incremental solutions that will shape or evolve your Digital DNA and prepare you for a bigger, smarter, faster future. We are building the future of operations across industries: • Consumer Packaged Goods • Energy • Financial Services • Life Sciences • Not-For-Profit • Real Estate & Hospitality • Telecom & Media • Transportation & Logistics We built Clarendon Partners based on our passion for helping clients maximize the benefits of their digital transformations. This passion began as a result of witnessing many companies concentrate their transformation efforts primarily on the customer touch points or the edge aspects of their digital strategy. This approach often does not capitalize on the full potential of the strategy because they did not address the inner workings of their organization. Legacy operations (mindsets, organizational boundaries, systems environments, etc.) are much harder to change than the delivery of the newer edge aspects of a digital transformation. We focus on helping our clients overcome these legacy barriers to help them build what we call "Digital DNA"​ - the combination of organizational, human, and technological factors that make-up a transformative digital company. Digital DNA emphasizes the capability to challenge and radically change core components of an organizations operating model (organizational design, value chain delivery, process design and automation, revenue models, etc.). We bring a holistic approach to evaluate and improve the existing way of doing business in order to build sustainable operations.
Board Member
Feb 2023
Best Egg is a consumer financial technology platform that aims to help people feel more confident about their everyday finances through a suite of products and resources. Our digital financial platform offers simple, accessible, and personalized financial solutions including personal loans, credit cards, and a financial health resource center. Our culture and values are one of the core reasons why our customers keep returning to Best Egg. We are committed to championing a culture of inclusiveness and diversity of thought, and we focus on providing a safe, flexible, and collaborative work environment. Our associates are encouraged to engage in creative problem solving, and we promote opportunities for growth and enrichment across the organization. If you are inspired by inspiring others, Best Egg is the place for you.
2019
Board Member
Dec 2019
Allstacks is an agentic platform for product and software development. With purpose-built solutions with agents operating in the same context across the lifecycle you define the right work, keep the delivery on track, and report on the outcomes. Product Studio is your daily home to ideate, define, refine, and share requirements and specs with technical clarity so you and your dev teams build the right things, faster and cheaper. Allstacks makes sense of your agentic software delivery, grounded in actual activity, with agents to surface risk, measure AI impact, and recommend optimizations.
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