Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Jay Hoag has been a venture capitalist and technology investor for over 30 years.

He and Rick Kimball co-founded TCV over 20 years ago in 1995. Since that time TCV has raised over $12 billion in capital and emerged a leading provider of growth capital to technology companies. In addition to Jay’s investment activity, he is also a member of TCV’s Executive Committee which has oversight for the general management of the Firm and its funds.

Prior to TCV, Jay was a Managing Director at Chancellor Capital Management where he spent over 12 years as a technology focused venture capitalist and fund manager. He has been involved in a large number of technology investments including Actuate Software, Ariba Technologies, Altiris (sold to Symantec), BlueCoat Systems (formerly CacheFlow), C|Net, Encompass (sold to Yahoo!), EXE Technologies, Expedia, Fandango, Facebook, Groupon, Netflix, ONYX Software, RealNetworks, SpringStreet (sold toHomestore.com), TechTarget, Vacationspot.com (sold to Expedia), Viant, and Zillow among others. Jay has been recognized numerous times by Forbes on its Midas List as one of the industry’s top technology investors.

Jay received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Electronic Arts, Netflix, Prodege, TechTarget, VICE Media, and Zillow. Jay is on the Investment Advisory Committee at the University of Michigan, the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University, and the Board of Trust at the Vanderbilt University.