Jeff Ransdell

Founder & Managing Partner | Connecting founders, employees, investors, and private innovation

📍 Miami, Florida, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Feb 2026
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Investor
Dec 2025
We find the best experts in every professional domain and put their knowledge to work training frontier models. Through APEX, we measure whether those models can actually perform economically valuable work. Were also bringing that expertise to enterprises: deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems.
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Dec 2025
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.
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Sep 2025
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide and over 500,000 business users, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
Investor - Board Member
Dec 2023
We create meaningful technologies that make people feel present and connected in virtual worlds for gaming, training, simulation and more.
Investor - Board Member
Sep 2022
Founded in 2022 by Joey Levy and Jake Paul, Betr is building the worlds first real money gaming super app. The companys first product, Betr Picks, launched in September 2023 and quickly grew to several hundreds of thousands of paying users that have already won $250M on the platform. Betr recently launched Betr Arcade with plans on launching additional new nationwide gaming products within its single app experience in 2025 to further differentiate its product offering. In addition to its single-app experience, Betrs gaming products are differentiated through a unique, simplified user interface that is catered to the casual sports fan and gamer, enabling Betr to capture more of the under-penetrated online gaming addressable market. Betrs media division, Betr Media, is one of the fastest growing sports gaming media brands in the U.S. and helps support the companys user acquisition and retention efforts. Betr is backed by Fuel Venture Capital, Aliya Capital Partners, IA Sports Ventures, FinSight Ventures, Florida Funders, Harmony Partners, 8vc, and other top-tier investors. Visit betr.app or follow @betr on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. To learn more about responsible play, visit betr.app/responsibility.
Investor - Board Member
Nov 2021
En Merqueo estamos construyendo el retail más grande de América Latina brindándole a nuestros usuarios bienestar y excelentes precios. En nuestra plataforma ofrecemos más de 2.000 a 10.000 productos, incluyendo frutas y verduras frescas, productos importados, licores, artículos para el hogar, cuidado personal y de más. En Merqueo trabajamos para construir un futuro en el que la innovación y la tecnología sean las herramientas para mejorar la vida de las personas. #LetsBuildTheFutureTogether 🇧🇷 Brasil 🇨🇴 Colombia
Investor - Board Member
Feb 2021
CookUnity is the first Chef-Direct Subscription service—a chef-to-food lover marketplace connecting the countrys most talented chefs with eaters (consumers). We’re changing meal delivery by bringing small-batch, restaurant-quality meals to eaters across the country. Every week, a diverse collective of all-star chefs craft their signature, ready-to-eat dishes for an elevated at-home dining experience.
Investor-Board Member
Jan 2021
Terran Orbital is a leading manufacturer of small satellites primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries. Terran Orbital provides end-to-end satellite solutions by combining satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations, and in-orbit support to meet the needs of the most demanding military, civil, and commercial customers. Learn more at www.terranorbital.com.
Investor-Board Member
Mar 2020
🎼 Music streaming for your business, made easy. Experience an unbeatable music service, built for your business. A top quality streaming platform, enhanced with professional tools. More than 100 million songs and over 1,500 playlists, made legal. Ideal for businesses of any size that enhance their brand with music, including restaurants, bars, hotels and retail. Visit soundtrack.io today 🎶
Investor-Board Member
Nov 2019
Building the world's largest and most sophisticated Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite constellation.
Investor-Board Member
Dec 2018
Unitea is a mobile and web-based, social music community platform. It brings artists closer to their fans by recognizing and rewarding the most engaged fans who stream and share music with Karma, a virtual emotional currency used to buy experiences. Unitea rewards fans for loving and growing music and art communities.
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Investor-Board Member
Nov 2018
Unlock the power of music. From last minute music licensing for your commercial, to full blown music strategy for your brand, we leverage a mixture of technology, culture-setting music catalog partnerships, and a team of industry veterans to help content creators harness the power of music for their projects and support independent artists.
Investor-Board Member
Jan 2017
Tickmark’s flagship application, Taxfyle, was launched in 2015 as the “easiest way to file your taxes”. Considered the #1 tax app in the Apple Store for four tax seasons in a row, Taxfyle has revolutionized the world of accounting and more specifically tax preparation. Whether you’re an individual looking to file your taxes or an accounting firm looking to outsource tens of thousands of returns to domestic tax professionals, Taxfyle’s apps and APIs connect you with the right accountants to meet your needs. Through Worklayer we bring together more than 4,000 licensed accountants and scale for any need our client base has. This augmented workforce drives a powerful accounting solution for individuals and small businesses, domestic outsourcing for accounting firms, and value-added services for channel partners and marketplaces.
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Feb 2026
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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Dec 2025
We find the best experts in every professional domain and put their knowledge to work training frontier models. Through APEX, we measure whether those models can actually perform economically valuable work. Were also bringing that expertise to enterprises: deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems.
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Dec 2025
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.
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Dec 2025
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.
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Sep 2025
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide and over 500,000 business users, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
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