Jay Zaveri

Jay Zaveri

Founder and Partner, Natural Capital

Jay is a founder and partner at Natural Capital. Jay’s life mission is to solve forty of the world’s hardest problems, by bringing entrepreneurs, technology, and capital together.

Prior to Natural Capital, Jay was the managing partner for all venture investments at Social Capital, and the founder of the Social Capital incubation program called Discover. Over almost a decade, the venture team saw $1.1B of early-stage capital investments leading to $4.5B in value with a gross IRR of 27+%.

Jay has been a lifelong technology entrepreneur. He co-founded three technology companies, the most recent of which was mobile productivity application CloudOn, which had ten million enterprise users and was acquired by Dropbox in 2014. Since 1996, Jay has built software products that have scaled to millions of active users, and companies that have grown rapidly to become category leaders. His love for cartoons and work in the new media tech space has won him 18 awards, including a Hollywood Film Festival for Best Animated Short.