Jason Starr

Helping build the next generation of amazing companies

📍 DuPage County, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Apr 2020
Hi, we’re ICONIC. ICONIC Protein is a Santa Monica-based natural foods company specializing in premium, grass-fed protein products and functional coffee. Our mission is to provide customers with clean-ingredient products that promote wellness, vitality and energy without compromising on taste and nutrition. We are an entrepreneurial-minded, innovative and dedicated group that is passionate about empowering our team, customers and partners to achieve their personal best every day.
Investor / Advisor
Apr 2020
By combining the meat of certified organic young coconuts with potent superfoods, adaptogenic herbs, and just a hint of low glycemic coconut sugar, weve achieved a rich, creamy gelato packed with plant-based nutrition. All flavors are strictly free of refined sugars, gums, gluten, dairy, corn, soy, GMOs, preservatives and anything artificial.
Investor
Mar 2020
We’re on a mission to craft well-designed, non-toxic ceramic cookware that thoughtfully raises the standards of what you cook with. Simply put, our products are designed to make your life easier and healthier, no matter your level of expertise.
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Investor
Jan 2019
We’re changing the game in men’s apparel. Rather than allowing people to settle for the industry’s standard sizing, we’ve built a new approach from the ground up. With 99 unique sizes and the ability to make and deliver garments in only 7 days, we’ve made it faster an easier than ever for people to get clothes they look and feel great in.
Investor / Advisor
Aug 2016
Criquet is an independent web-driven menswear brand from Austin, TX. 
 We invest in quality of life. We’re as well stocked in IPAs as we are IRAs. We’re into counter-culture, dive bars and scuba-diving for lost golf balls. 
 We’re all manner of men and women but we aren’t yes-men. Because ordinary is boring. Expectations are a trap and it’s way more fun to be laid-back. 
 So, whether we’re making shirts, outerwear or old-fashioneds, they need to be high quality, they need to be done our way, and they need those little details that make all the difference. 
 Proudly from Austin and comfortably off-course. 
Experience · 14 entries
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Investments (5)
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2026
Director of Venture Development
Sep 2026
The University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation brings the power of ideas in the laboratory, classroom and community to the world. Through education, resources, and programs, the Polsky Center commercializes discoveries, partners with companies, and attracts venture capital. The Polsky Center runs one of the nations top-ranked business accelerator, the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge, which has helped launch companies like Grubhub, Braintree, and Simple Mills. The mission of the Polsky Center is to support students, faculty, alumni, and non-university community members by bridging the gap between knowledge and practice, idea and action, and research and impact. By igniting a spirit of innovation and fostering connections that extend across the University, city, region and world, the Polsky Center enables more ideas to have a meaningful impact on society. Learn more at polsky.uchicago.edu.
2020
Investor
Apr 2020
Hi, we’re ICONIC. ICONIC Protein is a Santa Monica-based natural foods company specializing in premium, grass-fed protein products and functional coffee. Our mission is to provide customers with clean-ingredient products that promote wellness, vitality and energy without compromising on taste and nutrition. We are an entrepreneurial-minded, innovative and dedicated group that is passionate about empowering our team, customers and partners to achieve their personal best every day.
Investor / Advisor
Apr 2020
By combining the meat of certified organic young coconuts with potent superfoods, adaptogenic herbs, and just a hint of low glycemic coconut sugar, weve achieved a rich, creamy gelato packed with plant-based nutrition. All flavors are strictly free of refined sugars, gums, gluten, dairy, corn, soy, GMOs, preservatives and anything artificial.
Investor
Mar 2020
We’re on a mission to craft well-designed, non-toxic ceramic cookware that thoughtfully raises the standards of what you cook with. Simply put, our products are designed to make your life easier and healthier, no matter your level of expertise.
early stageManufacturing
2019
Investor
Jan 2019
We’re changing the game in men’s apparel. Rather than allowing people to settle for the industry’s standard sizing, we’ve built a new approach from the ground up. With 99 unique sizes and the ability to make and deliver garments in only 7 days, we’ve made it faster an easier than ever for people to get clothes they look and feel great in.
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