Jim Cohen is a venture capital investor at Fitz Gate Ventures who co-founded both his current firm and Main Street Capital, a publicly traded investment company, giving him experience building successful investment firms across both private equity and venture capital. He focuses on investing in companies connected to university communities, particularly Princeton and Rice, where he also teaches venture capital and entrepreneurship courses while helping PhD students and graduates transition into startup careers.
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Generalist, AI, Fintech, Health, Deeptech / Hardware
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Seed - Series B+
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$500K - $1M
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Fitz Gate Ventures is intentionally built around the Princeton ecosystem, with the majority of its capital invested into startups founded, managed, or owned by Princeton alumni, faculty, or students, and maintains formal institutional ties to Princeton through its GPs serving as Princeton lecturers and Keller Center eLab advisors. The fund operates as a bi-regional gateway between the New York and Texas ecosystems rather than the standard SF/NY axis, and has produced at least one unicorn from each of its first two funds despite being a relatively small early-stage firm with ~$70m AUM across three funds.
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