Jared Hecht

Jared Hecht
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University
Occupation	Business owner, entrepreneur, angel investor
Known for	Founder of Fundera and CoFounder of GroupMe

Jared Hecht is the co-founder and CEO of Fundera, an online small business lending aggregator. Prior to Fundera, Hecht co-founded group messaging app, GroupMe with Stever Martocci. After being live for 370 days, Microsoft purchased GroupMe for $80 million. Prior to GroupMe, Hecht was an early employee at Tumblr and led business development.

Originally from San Francisco, Hecht now lives with his wife in Brooklyn. He studied political science at Columbia University received his BA degree in 2009. Hecht serves as a mentor for TechStars.

Hecht is a national chess champion.

...
Wikipedia