Jack Herrick

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Jack Herrick is a serial entrepreneur and current CEO and Founder of wikiHow.

Jack founded wikiHow, which is like Wikipedia for how-to. Jack started and self financed wikiHow from inception to it's current position as one of the most popular sites on the web receiving over 25 million unique visitors per month.

Prior to wikiHow, Jack was co-CEO of eHow. With Josh Hannah, Jack purchased eHow in 2004. Between 2004 and 2006 eHow grew 30x in traffic and revenue and became the largest pure play how-to site on the web. Demand Media acquired eHow in 2006.

In 2002 Jack co-founded Luminescent Technologies with Dan Abrams, Eli Yablonovitch, and Stan Osher. Luminescent is a computational semiconductor lithography company that has raised over $25 MM in venture capital. From 1999-2001 Jack was CEO and co-founder at BigTray, a Sequoia funded e-commerce company. BigTray was sold in 2001 and remains the largest online vendor of restaurant equipment and supplies.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
12
Jack Herrick has made 12 investments. Their most recent investment was on Mar 23, 2011, when Sosh raised $1M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Aug 6, 2021 Kresko Labs Seed $2.34M Blockchain Detail
Jul 13, 2021 ClayStack Seed $5.20M Blockchain Detail
Jun 21, 2021 Meson Network Series Unknown $3.50M Blockchain Detail
May 25, 2021 OneOf Seed $63M Blockchain Detail
Mar 1, 2021 SIREN Seed $4M Blockchain Detail
Nov 13, 2020 Axelar Seed $3.75M Blockchain Detail
Oct 19, 2020 Polymarket Seed $4M Blockchain Detail
Sep 5, 2018 Spacemesh Series A $15M Blockchain Detail
Jun 21, 2018 BloXroute Labs Series A Blockchain Detail
Feb 1, 2018 O(1) Labs Seed Blockchain Detail
Dec 19, 2017 dYdX Seed $2M Blockchain Detail
Mar 23, 2011 Sosh Seed $1M Apps Detail