Jordan Roga

Venture capitalist & startup advisor

Jordan is an experienced investor and financial professional. Currently the Head of Business Operations at Open Core Ventures, he supports companies with their commercialization strategy, fundraising, and financial stability. In Jordan’s prior roles including Managing Partner and COO at Founders Committee Ventures and Vice President at NorthStar Investment Banking, he honed expertise in strategy, finance, and operations. He co-founded Alice Property Solutions and has advised over a dozen startups since. Jordan holds a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Cornell University.

He is passionate about startups, technology, and finance.

October 22, 2022

Convertible Securities: Introduction and Principal Components

A company is given a term sheet for a Series A round which offers to purchase $5MM of preferred stock with a purchase price based on a pre-money valuation of $15MM and with pre-money shares of 10MM. What is the post-money valuation, percentage ownership, share price, and number of post-money shares?

Startups

Finance

April 8, 2022

First Investment Amounts and Venture Outcomes

A logistic regression predicting if companies that received at least one investment from the selected top investors in the data I curated from the amount that was first invested into them does not find that amount invested to be a significant predictor initially.

Finance

Startups

December 7, 2020

Abstracted Modeling of Herd Immunity has been Too Oversimplified

In recent weeks, following news of the development of successful vaccines against COVID-19, conversation on herd immunity has shifted towards expectations for when normal life can be expected to resume. This is superficially in contrast to prior conversation focusing on herd immunity as something dangerous and to be avoided.

June 8, 2020

Restrictions are the Driving Forces of Changes in Behavior and the Economic Impact of COVID-19

As NYC starts (a slow and drawn out) reopening, and the United States begins dealing with the fallout of the decisions we have made, I think it is important to push back against the idea that the virus itself instead of the lockdowns caused the economic changes that are part of that aftermath.

Jordan Roga

Some thoughts on startups, tech, finance, and more

Convertible Securities: Introduction and Principal Components

First Investment Amounts and Venture Outcomes

Abstracted Modeling of Herd Immunity has been Too Oversimplified

Restrictions are the Driving Forces of Changes in Behavior and the Economic Impact of COVID-19

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