The Future of Work

Ron has spent his career in a variety of entrepreneurial, leadership, and business development roles. He has been an angel investor and advisor to over a dozen technology startups. Ron was Co-Founder and CEO of TravelPerk, a VC-backed travel management platform that is now a “unicorn” company with thousands of employees and customers across the globe. Prior to TravelPerk, he started the B2B division of Booking.com and before that was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Ron began his career at Lycos, one of the web’s pioneer search engine and web portals. Ron graduated from Babson College and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is the author of the impact-focused book, Higher Purpose Venture Capital.

Overview:

Jason brings a builder’s instinct and a sales operator’s edge to early-stage investing, shaped by direct experience in real estate, tech sales, and entrepreneurship. His investment approach centers on rethinking how the physical world is built, maintained, and scaled—identifying opportunities where innovation drives reinvention across infrastructure-heavy industries.

At Alumni Ventures, Jason is an Associate on the Seed Fund team, where he focuses on backing founders at the earliest stages of company formation. His work spans both overlooked sectors and emerging infrastructure plays. Prior to joining the Seed Fund, he launched his investing career with Yard Ventures, Alumni Ventures’ Harvard-affiliated fund, where he sourced and diligenced startups across a range of stages, sectors, and geographies.

Jason graduated from Babson College with a focus on Entrepreneurship and Finance, where he developed a foundation in company analysis and new venture creation. He also co-founded Hinzu, a promotional platform supporting emerging artists through design, marketing, and startup strategy.

Funds actively worked on:

• Seed Fund
• Yard Ventures

Investment Areas of Focus:

Jason’s investment strategy centers on Buildtech—a broad category that includes Proptech, Construction Tech, and advanced materials—where his background in real estate fuels a deep interest in how physical assets are developed and optimized. He is particularly drawn to founders building enduring platforms that modernize legacy systems through enabling software and data-driven infrastructure.

Beyond Buildtech, Jason actively explores a wide range of pre-Series A opportunities, with thematic interests in healthtech, infrastructure intelligence, and system-level innovation. His recent investments reflect this thesis: Parker, a mobile home park investment platform increasing transparency in a fragmented market; Cyvl, an AI-powered infrastructure analytics company supporting public works; Salvo Health, a digital clinic addressing chronic GI conditions; and InGel Therapeutics, developing regenerative therapies to restore vision.

These companies exemplify Jason’s core belief: the most impactful startups will not only transform digital experiences, but reimagine the systems and structures that underpin the physical world.

Vishal (‘Vish’) is the CEO and co-founder of SoWork, founded at Harvard’s Innovation Labs. SoWork has built the world’s first generative AI-enhanced virtual workplaces, transforming productivity and team culture for thousands of teams around the globe. See more at Besides being a CEO, Vishal is a medical doctor, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs, a Mentor at the Oxford Foundry, and Alumni Advisor at MassChallenge Boston. In his prior life, Vish worked at the World Health Organization in Geneva, and became one of the highest rated Teaching Fellows at Khan Academy in Health and Medicine. Vish likes traveling, playing videogames and hockey, and building things with smart people.

With over 18 years of experience in wireless technology and product development, Rohin co-founded Spintly in 2018 to solve problems in the access control and smart buildings space. Spintly is a middleware IoT platform that enables the future of the built world with mobile and cloud-based access solutions. As the CEO, Rohin leads the vision, strategy, and execution of the company, overseeing all aspects of product development, marketing, sales, and customer success.

Kurt Chisholm is the Founder & CEO of LeaseUp, a broker enablement solution for commercial real estate that transforms the painful process of search and survey into an interactive digital experience that wins clients. LeaseUp was born out of Kurt’s experience in commercial brokerage, where he helped growing technology companies find new office space. During his time as a broker he saw the shifting needs of tenants in the market, and a lack of technology in the brokerage industry creating a growing inability for brokers to properly service clients in the way modern companies demand. LeaseUp works with the country’s most innovative brokerages. If you’re interested in learning more please visit our site at leaseup.co