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Mordecai Ventures

New York, NY · Invests in US · Website

Pre-SeedSeedAI & Machine LearningFintechHealthcare & BiotechHardware & DevicesBiotech & Life SciencesHealthcare & Digital HealthFintech & Payments

Thesis

Founder-led seed fund investing at the intersection of healthcare/biotech and fintech, where GPs Linhao Zhang (Formation Bio, AI drug discovery) and Jake Cahan (January, fintech) bring deep operator experience to back early-stage founders in their domains.

Likely not a fit for

Not known to focus on enterprise SaaS, deep consumer apps, or hardware outside of biotech/medtech.

How they invest

Typical decision
~2 weeks
Warm intro
Not required
Involvement
Advisor
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$775K
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

2 contacts on file

LZ

Linhao Zhang

General PartnerGeneral Partner · Primary contact

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JC

Jake Cahan

General PartnerGeneral Partner

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Portfolio

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Research briefRead more
Mordecai Ventures Research Overview Mordecai Ventures is a small emerging venture capital firm managed by two experienced technology founders: Linhao Zhang (Co-founder & CTO of Formation Bio) and Jake Cahan (Founder & CEO of January). The firm operates under the entity name "Mordecai Ventures Management, LLC" (SEC CRD #322172) and its primary investment vehicle is "Fund I, a series of Mordecai Ven

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