Jason Zan

Fractional Chief Metrics Officer (CMetO) | Helping founders secure financing and achieve a liquidity event.

📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Dec 2015
CrowdRiff is an all-in-one visual marketing platform that empowers destination marketers to source, share, and scale original content that connects with today’s travelers. With tools for original short-form video, user-generated content discovery, digital asset management, and more, CrowdRiff is how busy DMOs showcase their destinations to stand out across channels.
Board Member
Feb 2015
We are empowering businesses to think together at scale. Pressly allows large organizations to collaborate, distribute, and engage with content at a faster rate. 🔗 📲 📨 📈 Clients include: Rogers | Scotiabank | Deloitte | Accenture | Avaya Use Cases: Internal Communication | Expert Community | Sales Enablement | Content Marketing
Investor and Board Observer
2011
Prove is the modern platform for continuous identity authentication and is used by over 1,000 enterprises and 500 financial institutions including 7 of the top 10 U.S. banks. Prove’s cloud solutions and mobile intelligence-driven APIs can be easily orchestrated to increase apPROVE Rates to over 90%, enabling companies to authenticate customer identities accurately, effortlessly, and privately, while thwarting fraud. Prove’s solutions are available in 195 countries.
Investor and Board Member
2009
ScribbleLive provides global brands with the services and solutions they need to create premium content at scale. Companies such as Red Bull, Cisco, FedEx, Dell, Reuters, Deloitte, and American Express rely on ScribbleLive’s on-demand talent network, creative services, and collaborative SaaS platform, to produce visual and video content, interactive experiences, and real-time audience engagement. Using our talent, services, and platform, organizations spend up to 50% less and produce premium content 30% faster. For more information, visit https://en.rockcontent.com/
Investor, Board Observer and Advisor
2009
Gridcentric is focused on delivering innovative, game-changing virtualization technology. Gridcentric was founded in 2009 by members of the Systems and Networking Research Lab at the University of Toronto. Their award-winning research in virtualization technology became the basis for Gridcentric's groundbreaking technology for the cloud and VDI markets. Gridcentric's Virtual Memory Streaming (VMS) technology enables the transformation of traditional desktop environments to VDI at a much lower total cost of ownership by cutting the amount of server and storage hardware required. For the cloud, Gridcentric's cloning technology allows for more flexible and efficient scaling of Virtual Machine infrastructure in a fraction of the time.
Experience · 17 entries
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2025
M&A Advisor
Feb 2025
Live Social Shopping
Founder of the CMetO Role | Chief Metrics Officer, the evolution of the CFO
Jan 2025
2017
Vujaday
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2017
Vujaday Festival
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2017
2015
Board Member
Dec 2015
CrowdRiff is an all-in-one visual marketing platform that empowers destination marketers to source, share, and scale original content that connects with today’s travelers. With tools for original short-form video, user-generated content discovery, digital asset management, and more, CrowdRiff is how busy DMOs showcase their destinations to stand out across channels.
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