Jon Chait

Jon Chait has over 25 years of experience in building high-growth technology, digital media and service companies as an investor, entrepreneur and former operating executive. As a partner at Dace Ventures, Jon is focused on investing in entrepreneurs building the Next Wave of Internet-related innovations in digital media, consumer marketing and mobile services. Jon currently serves on the boards of Dace investments auctionPAL, LocaModa, Mall Networks, Panraven and is an active board observer for EveryScape. Before teaming on founding Dace, Jon was a principal and partner-nominee at Pod Holding (now Pod Venture Partners) in Boston, MA and Stockholm, Sweden, investing in early-stage ICT convergence and consumer ventures. Jon was actively involved with Pod’s existing investments in Peppercoin (sold to Chockstone), ServiceFactory (sold to Birdstep), Corestreet, OzVision and others. Previously he served as managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, a VC seed fund and investment bank. Jon also was CEO and founder of Reality Bytes (sold to Lightpaths), a new media entertainment publisher and leading middleware solutions provider to multimedia OEM’s. He earlier held engineering, marketing and management positions at Lotus Development Corp., (now IBM/Lotus). Email: jon@daceventures.com