Jonty Kelt is the Founder of Fantail Ventures, a venture capital business investing in innovative early stage companies in the digital assets and enterprise software sectors - www.fantailventures.com
Jonty currently serves in governance roles with: defence software provider Starboard Maritime Intelligence, digital assets security provider Zenrock Labs, digital collectibles marketplace Veve, asset management software provider Caruso, cybersecurity AI provider Cynamics, and financial data provider Valocity. He also serves as Venture Partner at King River Capital, Chairman of the New Zealand Dementia Prevention Trust, and on the Board of Governors at Kings College.
Previously, he helped lead the global commercial business of Palantir Technologies, the technology firm that uses data strategy and technologies to protect and grow government and commercial organizations. Prior to Palantir, Jonty worked in executive roles for Google and DoubleClick; co-founded digital marketing technology and e-commerce companies in the United Kingdom and USA and a media company in China. Early in his...Jonty Kelt is the Founder of Fantail Ventures, a venture capital business investing in innovative early stage companies in the digital assets and enterprise software sectors - www.fantailventures.com
Jonty currently serves in governance roles with: defence software provider Starboard Maritime Intelligence, digital assets security provider Zenrock Labs, digital collectibles marketplace Veve, asset management software provider Caruso, cybersecurity AI provider Cynamics, and financial data provider Valocity. He also serves as Venture Partner at King River Capital, Chairman of the New Zealand Dementia Prevention Trust, and on the Board of Governors at Kings College.
Previously, he helped lead the global commercial business of Palantir Technologies, the technology firm that uses data strategy and technologies to protect and grow government and commercial organizations. Prior to Palantir, Jonty worked in executive roles for Google and DoubleClick; co-founded digital marketing technology and e-commerce companies in the United Kingdom and USA and a media company in China. Early in his career, he helped establish Macquarie Bank in New Zealand.
Jonty holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance and Marketing from Otago University, New Zealand. He is also a graduate of Stanford University Law School’s Directors’ College and holds a Certificate in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors, London.READ MOREVIEW LESS
Fantail Ventures invests in and advises innovative early-stage companies that operate in the digital assets, fintech, data and analytics, and marketplace sectors.
Palantir Technologies builds software platforms that help human experts perform powerful, collaborative analysis of data at scale. Its software is deployed at public institutions, private enterprises, and in the non-profit sector to address the challenges of responsibly making sense of complex, diverse data.
Onswipe
CEO
Nov 2013
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Dec 2014
New York, NY, USA
Onswipe was a mobile web content optimization technology provider acquired by Beanstock Media in 2014.
Group Commerce
CEO and Co-Founder
Nov 2009
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Nov 2013
New York, NY, USA
Group Commerce is an eCommerce technology platform and distribution network, built specifically for the needs of publishers. It was acquired by NimbleCommerce and is now part of Blackhawk Network.
Starboard Maritime Intelligence provides software for teams to monitor maritime activity in efforts to defend the ecosystem of the ocean and, in so doing, protect those people whose lives depend on the ocean.
Caruso provides fund managers with is modern cloud software that helps them grow their business and create a brighter financial future for all investors.
The New Zealand Dementia Prevention Trust directly supports the Dementia Prevention Research Clinics in their effort to combat Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The Clinics are a multi-year longitudinal study designed to identify processes causing memory and functional decline in older adults and to test new interventions that might delay or prevent the onset and progression of dementia.
VeVe is the world’s home of premium digital collectibles, comics and art works.
Cadence
Advisory Board
New York, NY, USA
Cadence is the leading fintech securitization platform for private credit. It is built on the belief that investing in alternative investments should be more transparent, more accessible, and more liquid.
Jasper's mission is to democratise commercial real estate, providing access, liquidity, and transparency to investments that have traditionally only been available to a select few.
Swyft provides next-generation automated retail store hardware, a cloud software platform and end-to-end services for brands, retailers, vend operators and enterprises.
Carnival Labs is a leading mobile marketing automation platform, acquired in 2016 by Sailthru.
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“Start-up Survival Through COVID-19: Hope is Not a Strategy”
Webinar
Apr 2020
Aera VC Managing Partner Derek Handley and Jonty Kelt from Fantail Ventures partnered with the Icehouse Ventures to host “Start-up Survival Through COVID-19: Hope is Not a Strategy”, a virtual presentation and discussion for founders on strategies to survive through COVID-19.
Jonty Kelt shares his story at Kea Inspire 2017. He discussed what led him to founding Fantail Ventures, his work with Palantir Technologies, and how he has used his international success to invest in numerous Kiwi startup businesses.
