Jay Hoag

Investment Partner

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.

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
4
Jay Hoag has 4 current jobs including Board Member at Tripadvisor , Board Member at SeatGeek and Member of the Board of Directors at Vice Media .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Tripadvisor Board Member Detail
SeatGeek Board Member Detail
Vice Media Member of the Board of Directors Detail
Zillow Member of the Board of Directors Detail