Jason Knapp

Angel Investor · Jason Knapp

Jason Knapp is an individual angel investor based in San Diego (listed as Irvine in some profiles) who primarily invests in **seed-stage** startups across **tech, software, e-commerce, and healthcare** sectors [2][6]. His notable portfolio includes **Sparkbuy**, **Signal**, and **SimpleGeo**, reflecting his background in ad tech and machine learning from prior exits totaling over **

70 million**…

Focus: Jason Knapp is Executive Vice President of Product at Viant. He has spent more than two decades inventing technologies that connect advertisers and consumers in more efficient and mutually beneficial ways. At Viant, he heads all global product efforts, designing advertising technologies that deliver superior engagement and ROI for the world's largest brand and direct advertisers across all of Viant's global media properties, including Myspace. Prior to joining Viant, Jason spent his career designing, implementing, and supporting social media, advertising, and operational efficiency technologies at large and small companies alike. One of his pioneering accomplishments was developing the first real-time-bidding (RTB) platform to link separate advertiser and publisher systems, which spawned hundreds of startups and has been widely adopted by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Jason was also a founding team member of Strategic Data Corp (SDC), which created the first sophisticated digital ad op
Location: Irvine, CA, United States

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