Jason Mendelson

Bio

Jason Mendelson is a Managing Director for Mobius Venture Capital. Besides his board seats and deal responsibilities, he also acts as the firm's general counsel and chief administrative officer with oversight of all operations of the firm. He joined the firm in July 2000. Prior to his involvement with Mobius Venture Capital, Jason was an attorney with Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, where he practiced corporate and securities law with an emphasis on representation of emerging companies in private and public financings, mergers and acquisitions. As an attorney, Jason has consummated over $2 billion of venture capital investments, $5 billion in mergers and has extensive experience in fund formation, employment law and general litigation, serving as an expert witness in these related fields. Before his legal career, Jason was a senior consultant and software engineer at Accenture where he focused on financial institution re-engineering engagements. While at Accenture, Jason supervised programming teams up to 40 people in size and was responsible for managing deliverables in multi-billion dollar engagements. As one of the first full-time, in-house general counsels at a venture capital firm, Jason has been on the forefront of thought leadership and has co-chaired the National Venture Capital Association's General Counsel group and is an active participant on the NVCA's Chief Financial Officer group. He was one of the key draftspersons for the NVCA model document task force which created the industry's first set of standardized venture capital financing documents, which has greatly aided in the efficiency of completing these types of deals. Notable companies that Jason has worked with, represented and / or sat on the boards of include Accelergy, eCast, FirstDocs, Stratify (acq. IRM), and Vitria (VITR). Jason was elected to the board of the NVCA in 2009 as well as being chosen as one of Denver's 40 under 40 in business. Jason is also Chairman of the Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurship Board. Jason holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, with distinction and a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the University of Michigan.