Jay Cohan

Western Technology Investment
Jay is a partner at Western Technology Investment (WTI) where he focuses on providing venture debt financing to startup and growing technology and life science companies. WTI is currently investing out of its 15th fund, raised in 2015, and has over $1 billion in assets under management.

Prior to joining WTI in 1999, Jay held business development and sales positions at Puma Technology (subsequently Intellisync), Oracle Corporation, and SoftMagic, where he was a founder and VP of business development prior to its acquisition by Puma. Jay holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Lev Mass is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at XSeed Capital, bringing extensive expertise in cloud computing, mobile, and business development.

Prior to joining XSeed, Lev ran operations and business development for the Cloud Group at Yahoo!. While at Yahoo!, Lev helped to facilitate the spin-off of the Hadoop Group into what is now Hortonworks, a leading big data company. In addition, he held a number of executive roles at Yahoo! helping to define strategy for mobile, social, cloud and big data. Previous to Yahoo!, Lev was an investment banker with Thomas Weisel Partners focused on TMT (technology, media, telecommunications) and health technology.


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