About
Jon Chait is a General Partner at Dace Ventures with over 35 years of experience as an investor, entrepreneur, and operating executive in technology, digital media, and services. He has served as a board director, observer, or advisor to numerous companies in the US and Europe, and previously worked at Pod Holding (now Pod Venture Partners) and as managing director of Garage Technology Ventures. Earlier in his career he founded Reality Bytes and held roles at Lotus Development Corp.
Invests in
ConsumerMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Experience
- IQT (In-Q-Tel)Managing Partnercurrent2025 — presentGreater Boston
- IQT (In-Q-Tel)Partner2022 — 2025Greater Boston
- Dace VenturesGeneral Partnercurrent2007 — present
- Bentley University - McCallum Graduate School of BusinessAdjunct Lecturer and Guest Lecturercurrent2019 — present
- Mount Independence InvestmentsPartnercurrent2013 — present
- Belay VenturesManaging Partnercurrent2001 — present
- Pod Venture PartnersPartner-Nominee and Principal2004 — 2006
- Garage Technology Ventures (now Pegasus Tech Ventures)Managing Director2001
- LightPaths, Inc. (via acquisition of Reality Bytes)VP Product Marketing2000
- Reality Bytes, Inc.CEO1994 — 2000
- Lotus Development Corp (now IBM)Product Manager & Marketing Manager1984 — 1994
Skills & more
Venture Capital93Corporate Development34Digital Media24Social Media9Start-ups99Leadership Development7Marketing Strategy14Digital Strategy9Strategic Partnerships72Private Equity15Marketing5Entrepreneurship31
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Business StrategyMergers & AcquisitionsProduct ManagementStrategic PlanningAngel InvestingManagementProduct MarketingFrom Jon's professional profile.
Shared employers
Also worked at IQT (In-Q-Tel)36
A.J. BertoneExecutive Vice President, Investments at In-Q-TelBruce AdamsExecutive Vice President and General Counsel at In-Q-TelLiz FoxProduct Marketing and Communications at In-Q-TelAsheem ChandnaInvestor at Greylock PartnersGeorge HoyemVenture Partner at Lavrock VenturesWesley TilluPartner at S32 focused on frontier technology investments
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Also worked at Lotus Development Corp (now IBM)552
Ken ChenaultInvestment Team at General CatalystRoger KrakoffGeneral Partner at Monta Vista CapitalAvi BharadwajInvestment Director at Intel CapitalTejAdvisor at Clear VenturesEricAdvisor at Clear VenturesKT MooreAdvisor at Clear Ventures
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Investments
Board seats
Investor
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