JG

James Gellert

Partner - Windcrest Partners Investment Management President & CFO at Catalogic Software Inc.

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 29 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2012
Angel investor🌍 United States
6
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1
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0
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29y
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May 2012
SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonalds, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams.
Board Observer
Sep 2011
Regent Education is the leading provider of SaaS solutions to automate financial aid verification, packaging, and disbursement for not only traditional academic years, but also borrower-based academic year (BBAY) and competency-based education (CBE) using standard and nonstandard terms as well as non-term enrollment models. We also are the only provider to seamlessly support multiple enrollment models concurrently, including transfers from one model to another. We were architected from the ground up to simplify the most complex financial aid scenarios. Our comprehensive and cloud-based solutions offer institutions an unprecedented ability to increase efficiency, mitigate compliance risks, expand enrollment, improve the student experience. - Regent Award automates packaging, repackaging, and student disbursements with simplified workflows across all your enrollment models; Regent Award integrates with institutional, federal, and select state systems; automation extends to disbursement validation, SAP/R2T4, personalized document collection, and student communications. - Regent Review streamlines the verification process using a Smartform questionnaire that asks questions specific to the student and provides a complete audit trail of the verification process including document collection, receipt acknowledgment, progress updates, and e-signatures. - Regent Plan helps students borrow responsibly and minimize debt with informed, dynamic financial aid planning aids, smart borrowing tools, and improved counseling and contact support. - Regent Access accelerates student aid delivery to undocumented students by providing an online experience that mirrors the FAFSA. We’ve focused exclusively on building financial aid management software for more than ten years, guided by our financial aid experts who collectively have more than 230 years of financial aid experience. As a result, Regent’s solutions are uniquely tailored to the needs of financial aid professionals.
Board Observer
Sep 2010
Axial streamlines the exit preparation process for business owners by making it easy for them to confidentially research, connect and transact with top-rated M&A advisors and capital partners. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, Axial serves North American private companies doing $5M - $250M in revenue.
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2008
Applause is the global leader in managed software testing services and digital quality. Through AI, automation and the world’s largest independent testing community, we help leading enterprises validate every aspect of their apps and other digital experiences. Our fully managed approach makes it easy for organizations to test under real-world conditions, across devices, locations and use cases — at the speed and scale required in the age of AI. Applause alleviates pressure on internal teams by helping expand testing coverage, keep pace with modern release cycles, and deliver exceptional quality to their users around the world. With deep expertise in payment testing, accessibility, UX and AI evaluation, Applause is a trusted partner to the world’s most innovative brands.
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2008
Voxer is a high-performance messaging app that combines the power of live voice with text, photos and videos. Improve your team efficiency and collaborations on Voxer. Communicate easily and instantly with individuals and groups. Download Voxer: iOS – http://i.voxer.com/iphone Android – http://i.voxer.com/droidapp Use Voxer on your computer: web.voxer.com
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2012
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May 2012
SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonalds, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams.
2011
Board Observer
Sep 2011
Regent Education is the leading provider of SaaS solutions to automate financial aid verification, packaging, and disbursement for not only traditional academic years, but also borrower-based academic year (BBAY) and competency-based education (CBE) using standard and nonstandard terms as well as non-term enrollment models. We also are the only provider to seamlessly support multiple enrollment models concurrently, including transfers from one model to another. We were architected from the ground up to simplify the most complex financial aid scenarios. Our comprehensive and cloud-based solutions offer institutions an unprecedented ability to increase efficiency, mitigate compliance risks, expand enrollment, improve the student experience. - Regent Award automates packaging, repackaging, and student disbursements with simplified workflows across all your enrollment models; Regent Award integrates with institutional, federal, and select state systems; automation extends to disbursement validation, SAP/R2T4, personalized document collection, and student communications. - Regent Review streamlines the verification process using a Smartform questionnaire that asks questions specific to the student and provides a complete audit trail of the verification process including document collection, receipt acknowledgment, progress updates, and e-signatures. - Regent Plan helps students borrow responsibly and minimize debt with informed, dynamic financial aid planning aids, smart borrowing tools, and improved counseling and contact support. - Regent Access accelerates student aid delivery to undocumented students by providing an online experience that mirrors the FAFSA. We’ve focused exclusively on building financial aid management software for more than ten years, guided by our financial aid experts who collectively have more than 230 years of financial aid experience. As a result, Regent’s solutions are uniquely tailored to the needs of financial aid professionals.
2010
Board Observer
Sep 2010
Axial streamlines the exit preparation process for business owners by making it easy for them to confidentially research, connect and transact with top-rated M&A advisors and capital partners. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, Axial serves North American private companies doing $5M - $250M in revenue.
2008
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2008
Applause is the global leader in managed software testing services and digital quality. Through AI, automation and the world’s largest independent testing community, we help leading enterprises validate every aspect of their apps and other digital experiences. Our fully managed approach makes it easy for organizations to test under real-world conditions, across devices, locations and use cases — at the speed and scale required in the age of AI. Applause alleviates pressure on internal teams by helping expand testing coverage, keep pace with modern release cycles, and deliver exceptional quality to their users around the world. With deep expertise in payment testing, accessibility, UX and AI evaluation, Applause is a trusted partner to the world’s most innovative brands.
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