Jonty Kelt is the Founder of Fantail Ventures, a venture capital business investing in and advising innovative early stage companies. Fantail Ventures mainly engages with companies that operate in the e-commerce, data and analytics, digital media, fintech, and wellness sectors.
Jonty currently serves on the Board of Directors of automated retail technology company Swyft and financial data company Valocity.
Previously, he helped lead the global commercial business of Palantir Technologies, the Silicon Valley 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 co-founded a media company in China. Early in his career, he helped establish Macquarie Bank in New Zealand.
Jonty holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Philosophy, 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.
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's mission is to power the way the world experiences the web on touch, by creating an app-like experience in the browser for any publisher's existing content.
Group Commerce
CEO and Co-Founder
Nov 2009 - Nov 2013
New York, NY, USA
Group Commerce is now a part of NimbleCommerce and Blackhawk, the largest eCommerce technology platform and distribution network, specifically for the needs of publishers. The combined entity now serves over 100 publishers in 14 countries processing hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Macquarie Bank is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. Macquarie’s main business focus is making returns by providing a diversified range of services to clients. Macquarie acts on behalf of institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world.
Swyft provides next-generation automated retail store hardware, a cloud software platform and end-to-end services for brands, retailers, vend operators and enterprises.
