Jim Moran

Private Equity Portfolio CEO / Enterprise SaaS Operator / 8.5X Career MOIC / Repeat Liquidity Creator

📍 Greater Boston, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 32 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
19
Total investments
2
Early stage
7
Mid stage
2
Late stage
32y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
Sep 2022
In 2025, Qolo became the first modern processor to win a top-25 commercial card relationship with a major U.S. bank. That door had been closed to every modern infrastructure player for decades. It opened because the problem was finally solved correctly. Banks and B2B platforms need an embedded ledger, virtual account management, card issuing, and multi-rail payment orchestration to work as one system. Every other provider makes you build that from parts. Qolo built it as one platform. Quantum Ledger manages virtual account hierarchies and reconciles every transaction in real time. Qinetic Issuing powers commercial card programs built to bank-grade standards. Qascade Money orchestrates payments across rails with native APIs. In July 2026, we became part of CSI, strengthening our ability to provide innovative solutions coupled with unmatched service and support. No core migration. No rip-and-replace. Qolo works on top of existing infrastructure and makes it capable of things it was never designed to do.
Private Investor
Jan 2021
The Helper Bees is an insurtech company successfully improving the home care experience for the payer and care recipient. They work with some of the world’s largest insurance carriers to deliver transformative experiences in digitization, sourcing great care options and applying machine learning to power intelligent care and claim analytics and processing.
late stageInsurance
Advisor & Investor
Dec 2020
EasySend helps you evolve forms into easy digital experiences with no code. By going digital, you’ll streamline customer data intake and automate your enterprise workflow.
Private Investor
Oct 2020
ChaosSearch transforms customers cloud storage (e.g. AWS S3) into a high performant stream-based Search+SQL+GenAI analytical database for use cases such as: - Observability - Security Lakes - Application Insights ChaosSearch was purpose-built for cost-effective, highly scalable analytics encompassing Full Text Search, Relational SQL and GenAI capabilities in one unified offering. Want more content? Subscribe to our YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@chaossearch-io/
Seed Investor
Sep 2016
Fortanix is a data-first multi-cloud security company and a pioneer in Confidential Computing. Today, data is spread across clouds, SaaS, applications, storage systems and data centers. Fortanix decouples security from infrastructure to address the challenges of securing sensitive data, wherever it may be located, across its entire life cycle, whether it is at-rest, in-motion or in-use. Fortanix customers include organizations of all sizes and a wide range of verticals, including some of the biggest global brands and Fortune 50 companies. Fortanix is a founding member of the Confidential Computing Consortium and has a strong ecosystem of strategic partners including Intel, Microsoft, AWS, Google, Snowflake and ServiceNow. Fortanix has been a recipient of many industry awards and recognitions including Gartner Cool Vendor.
Private Investor
Oct 2015
Desktop Metal (NYSE:DM) is driving Additive Manufacturing 2.0, a new era of on-demand, digital mass production of industrial, medical, and consumer products. Our innovative 3D printers, materials, and software deliver the speed, cost, and part quality required for this transformation. We’re the original inventors and world leaders of the 3D printing methods we believe will empower this shift, binder jetting and digital light processing. Today, our systems print metal, polymer, sand, and other ceramics, as well as foam and recycled wood. Manufacturers use our technology worldwide to save time and money, reduce waste, increase flexibility, and produce designs that solve the world’s toughest problems and enable once-impossible innovations. Learn more about Desktop Metal and our #TeamDM brands at www.desktopmetal.com.
Private Investor
May 2015
Every day is made of a mass of customer interactions. Weave is a refreshingly easy way to make each one count.
Board Member
Jul 2014
Erecruit delivers the most comprehensive and innovative end-to-end staffing software solutions designed to empower people to achieve exceptional results. We serve the entire recruitment lifecycle with Erecruit Front-Office, Middle-Office, Credentialing and VMS solutions for enterprise staffing firms, Adapt Front and Back Office software for mid-market firms, eStaff365 Onboarding, and TempBuddy, temporary workforce management platform. To learn more, visit www.erecruit.com.
Board Member
Mar 2014
WP Engine, the world’s most trusted WordPress technology company, powers the freedom to create on WordPress. WP Engine's managed WordPress hosting, eCommerce solutions, and enterprise offerings, including our WordPress experience platform and headless WordPress solution power 1.5M digital experiences globally for companies and agencies of all sizes. WP Engine has offices in Austin, Texas; Brisbane, Australia; Kraków, Poland; Limerick, Ireland; London, England; Omaha, Nebraska and San Antonio, Texas. Many of our 1,000 employees work remotely around the world.
Founding Investor / Board Member of Confer
Aug 2012
Carbon Black empowers top security teams to close the Risk Gap they face today. Specific directed attacks are now the cybercrime norm, and no business is exempt. There’s increasing cyber-insurance scrutiny, and government regulations continue to get stricter. In this context, security teams can no longer rely on general security platforms alone. Rather, teams must be empowered with deeper visibility and more control in order to tailor response to their unique environment. With Carbon Black, security teams have unprecedented ability to see directed attacks, contain potential impact, change policies with no user interruption, prevent repeat incidents, and measure what they stopped.
Board Member
Aug 2009
SpringCM, a DocuSign company, helps people save time, grow revenue, increase productivity, by automating and transforming business processes. SpringCM empowers individuals and teams to get work done efficiently and with confidence. Transform your documents and let work flow. Learn more at www.springcm.com
Board Member/Investor/COO
2000
Virtusa is a global product and platform engineering services company that makes experiences better with technology. We help organizations grow faster, more profitably, and more sustainably by reimagining enterprises through domain-driven solutions. We combine strategy, design, and engineering, backed by unmatched expertise at the intersection of industry, business, and technology to generate real-world business impact for clients. Headquartered in Massachusetts with global delivery centers, Virtusa provides a broad range of services, solutions, and assets, including strategy and design, AI advisory and services, digital engineering, data and analytics, digital assurance, cloud and security, cx transformation and managed services across industries such as financial services, healthcare, communications, media, entertainment, travel, manufacturing, and technology.
Co-Founder/CRO/Board Member
1998
Experience · 22 entries
All (22)
Investments (18)
Founder (2)
Board (12)
2026
Co-Founder
Jan 2026
iReside makes tax residency tracking simple, accurate, and stress-free. Whether you split time between states or travel often, iReside automatically logs your days and gives you the proof you need to stay compliant. With smart tracking, you’ll never miss a day. When it comes to residency, details matter.
2022
Board Member
Sep 2022
In 2025, Qolo became the first modern processor to win a top-25 commercial card relationship with a major U.S. bank. That door had been closed to every modern infrastructure player for decades. It opened because the problem was finally solved correctly. Banks and B2B platforms need an embedded ledger, virtual account management, card issuing, and multi-rail payment orchestration to work as one system. Every other provider makes you build that from parts. Qolo built it as one platform. Quantum Ledger manages virtual account hierarchies and reconciles every transaction in real time. Qinetic Issuing powers commercial card programs built to bank-grade standards. Qascade Money orchestrates payments across rails with native APIs. In July 2026, we became part of CSI, strengthening our ability to provide innovative solutions coupled with unmatched service and support. No core migration. No rip-and-replace. Qolo works on top of existing infrastructure and makes it capable of things it was never designed to do.
2021
Private Investor
Jan 2021
The Helper Bees is an insurtech company successfully improving the home care experience for the payer and care recipient. They work with some of the world’s largest insurance carriers to deliver transformative experiences in digitization, sourcing great care options and applying machine learning to power intelligent care and claim analytics and processing.
late stageInsurance
2020
Advisor & Investor
Dec 2020
EasySend helps you evolve forms into easy digital experiences with no code. By going digital, you’ll streamline customer data intake and automate your enterprise workflow.
Private Investor
Oct 2020
ChaosSearch transforms customers cloud storage (e.g. AWS S3) into a high performant stream-based Search+SQL+GenAI analytical database for use cases such as: - Observability - Security Lakes - Application Insights ChaosSearch was purpose-built for cost-effective, highly scalable analytics encompassing Full Text Search, Relational SQL and GenAI capabilities in one unified offering. Want more content? Subscribe to our YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@chaossearch-io/
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