Jay Levy

Early Stage SaaS Investor

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 26 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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2025
Ocient is a data analytics software solutions company that enables compute-intensive analysis of large, complex datasets while optimizing for performance, cost, and energy efficiency. Ocient brings data transformation, loading, complex query processing, AI, OcientML® and OcientGeo® into a single, consolidated solution for deeper insights and data-driven decision-making. Enterprises can deploy Ocient’s pilot-to-production solutions on premises, in the OcientCloud™ or the public cloud, with little to no resource-intensive integration. Ocient is a global, remote-first, carbon-neutral company, headquartered in Chicago, and backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel and Buoyant Ventures. If youre interested in joining a team making data more efficient at scale, email us at: recruiting@ocient.com
Investor & Board Observer
Feb 2024
Eliminate the need for multiple security tools, gain enterprise-level insights, and grow with a scalable GRC ecosystem. Compyl monitors and assigns workflows in a single location to ensure regulatory requirements and IT frameworks are continuously met by establishing a proper information security foundation across the entire organization.
Investor
Aug 2020
Onboard.io enables customer success teams to organize, manage & automate the perfect customer onboarding process.
Investor
Apr 2019
At Ampjar, we help brands to reach new customers and have more genuine conversations with their customers every day. Successful brands are connected to communities of brands who share and support each others’ messages. Now more than ever, customers want inspiration and recommendations from brands that they love and trust. We’ve fast-tracked this process by creating a curated community of the best brands who share and support each others’ messages. We’d love for you to join us - apply online. We’re #strongertogether. #growwithampjar
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Jan 2018
Global 2000 companies use GreatHorn to reduce the inherent and pervasive risk associated with the everyday use of email. GreatHorn’s multi-staged approach to email security automatically combines data science, machine learning techniques, and technical analysis with human context to protect organizations before, during, and after a phishing attack. By treating email security as a risk management function, customers can not only detect and remove more attacks but also warn users in real-time of potential threats and provide response teams with the tools to limit exposure and minimize risk. As a result, GreatHorn Email Security safeguards cloud email from advanced threats such as business email compromise, impersonations, credential theft, account takeover, and other phishing attacks. More information can be found at http://www.greathorn.com
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2018
Alloy provides an identity and fraud prevention platform that enables global financial institutions and fintechs to manage identity risk so they can grow with confidence. Over 700 of the world’s largest financial institutions and fintechs turn to Alloy’s end-to-end platform to access actionable intelligence and the broadest network of data sources across the industry, as well as stay ahead of fraud, credit, and compliance risks. Founded in 2015, Alloy is powering the delivery of great financial products to more customers around the world.
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Jun 2017
Facing growing threats and a rapidly expanding attack surface, understaffed and alert-fatigued organizations need more efficient ways to eliminate their exposure to vulnerabilities. Automox is a modern cyber hygiene platform that closes the aperture of attack by more than 80% with just half the effort of traditional solutions. Cloud-based and globally available, Automox enforces OS & third-party patch management, security configurations, and custom scripting across Windows, Mac, and Linux from a single intuitive console. IT and SecOps can quickly gain control and share visibility of on-prem, remote and virtual endpoints without the need to deploy costly infrastructure. Automox dramatically reduces corporate risk while raising operational efficiency to deliver best-in-class security outcomes, faster and with fewer resources.
Board Observer
2017
Spiro is an AI-powered CRM designed specifically for manufacturers and distributors. The Spiro platform highlights the customers that need attention or present growth opportunities, and proactively recommends specific actions to be taken. Customers save time with Spiro’s automated data collection, and grow their business by 32% within the first two years of using Spiro.
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Jan 2016
Our mission is pretty simple—we provide local flooring retailers with the technology they need to reach their fullest potential. With that, we are building a team of experts who are forward thinkers and who believe innovation is the way we set ourselves apart from the rest. Together we will reshape the flooring industry.
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2015
Fama makes hiring great people easy. Our modern candidate screening solutions use online signals to identify candidate fit. We highlight professional attributes such as creativity, innovation, and problem solving while also surfacing costly misconduct such as violence, harassment, and fraud. With Fama’s ethical AI we help organizations answer the big question: how might a candidate act around coworkers or customers when they join? Talent teams use Fama to improve candidate quality and employee retention, create safe and inclusive workplaces, and place the right leadership for their organizations. Fama is compliant with the FCRA, GDPR, and integrates into a wide range of HRIS, ATS and background screening solutions. Founded in 2015, Fama is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, and have raised more than $30M. Learn why over 3,600 companies trust Fama at www.fama.io.
Investor
Jan 2010
In January 2010, Foodspotting launched the first and leading mobile app for finding and rating dishes, not just restaurants. Today, you can use the Foodspotting website and mobile apps to find dishes recommended by spotters, friends and experts like The Travel Channel, Chow and Mario Batali. Featured as App of the Week in both the iPhone and Android app stores, Foodspotting has received attention from The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, Food + Wine, TechCrunch and Mashable, and was named one of Time Magazine’s 50 Best Apps of 2012. It was also featured in Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote at f8 as an OpenGraph launch partner. Foodspotting has raised over $3.75M from Blue Run Ventures, Felicis Ventures, High Line Ventures, 500 Startups and a syndicate of angel investors. Based in San Francisco, Foodspotting has built a worldwide community of foodspotters who love to find and share interesting dishes wherever they go.
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Jan 2010
The best tabs for your Facebook pages. We are an application marketplace for the Facebook platform. This marketplace allows brands and businesses to quickly and easily build out their fan pages. For developers we provide distribution and monetization for their applications.
Investor
Jan 2010
Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. You can immediately see what people look like, where they're based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn. Imagine relationship management built into your email. For free.
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2010
Help Scout is designed with your customers in mind. Provide email and live chat with a personal touch, and deliver help content right where your customers need it, all in one place, all for one low price. The customer experience is simple and training staff is painless, but Help Scout still has all the powerful features you need to provide great support at scale. With best in-class-reporting, an integrated knowledge base, 50+ integrations and a robust API, Help Scout lets your team focus on what really matters: your customers. Help Scout is trusted by 12,000+ customers in over 140 countries, including Buffer, GrubHub, AngelList, and Timbuk2. Try for Free 👉 https://bit.ly/HS_FreeTrial
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Jan 2009
*Acquired by iCIMS* We are the Talent Cloud company that empowers organizations to attract, engage, hire, and advance the right talent that builds a winning workforce.
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2025
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2025
Ocient is a data analytics software solutions company that enables compute-intensive analysis of large, complex datasets while optimizing for performance, cost, and energy efficiency. Ocient brings data transformation, loading, complex query processing, AI, OcientML® and OcientGeo® into a single, consolidated solution for deeper insights and data-driven decision-making. Enterprises can deploy Ocient’s pilot-to-production solutions on premises, in the OcientCloud™ or the public cloud, with little to no resource-intensive integration. Ocient is a global, remote-first, carbon-neutral company, headquartered in Chicago, and backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel and Buoyant Ventures. If youre interested in joining a team making data more efficient at scale, email us at: recruiting@ocient.com
2024
Investor & Board Observer
Feb 2024
Eliminate the need for multiple security tools, gain enterprise-level insights, and grow with a scalable GRC ecosystem. Compyl monitors and assigns workflows in a single location to ensure regulatory requirements and IT frameworks are continuously met by establishing a proper information security foundation across the entire organization.
2023
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2023
Respondology enables brands of all types to regain control of their presence in social media by immediately and discreetly removing damaging social comments and bots across Paid, Organic and Influencer Social Marketing. Organizations across the NFL, NBA, NHL, NASCAR and Premier League to global consumer brands such as GoPro partner with Respondology. Our clients represent over 1 billion social followers. Do not allow brand abuse, racism, homophobia and the ubiquitous bots invade your social media.
2020
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Aug 2020
Onboard.io enables customer success teams to organize, manage & automate the perfect customer onboarding process.
2019
Investor
Apr 2019
At Ampjar, we help brands to reach new customers and have more genuine conversations with their customers every day. Successful brands are connected to communities of brands who share and support each others’ messages. Now more than ever, customers want inspiration and recommendations from brands that they love and trust. We’ve fast-tracked this process by creating a curated community of the best brands who share and support each others’ messages. We’d love for you to join us - apply online. We’re #strongertogether. #growwithampjar
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