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Jeff Stewart is a serial entrepreneur, inventor and investor specializing in technology-enabled growth businesses. Jeff is the founder of Urgent Group, a venture development firm focusing on building innovative technology-enabled businesses. Jeff is also the founder and managing director of Geometric Group LLC and Urgent Ventures LLC, both focused on seed-stage investments.
Jeff is also the founder of Urgent Career, a venture backed recruitment technology and services firm that seeks to improve how growth companies find, screen and assess sales talent.
Prior to Urgent Career, Jeff founded Monitor 110, which offered Internet-based data and analysis tools to institutional investors.
Jeff is also founder, former CEO, and current chairman of Mimeo.com, a state-of-the-art, Internet-based document production service included in the 2004 and 2005 Inc. 500 lists of the fastest growing companies, the 2005 Red Herring 100 list of private companies that drive technology, and Deloitte’s Technology “Fast 500†list.
Mr. Stewart’s entrepreneurial career began in 1995 with his launch of Square Earth, an Internet technology company whose customers included Citibank, Compaq, UPS, Merrill Lynch, Oppenheimer and AIG. Consistently profitable, Square Earth grew at a rate of over 100% per year, merged with Proxicom in January 1998, and successfully completed an IPO as the combined company in 1999.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Aristotle Circle | 8/10 | Series A | $450k | 2 |
| OrganizedWisdom | 6/08 | Series A | $2.3M | 6 |
| Path101 | 2/08 | Angel | $350k | 21 |
| Lookery | 2/08 | Seed | $900k | 21 |
| Standout Jobs | 1/08 | Series A | C$1.57M | 10 |
| Mashery | 1/07 | Angel | 4 | |
| WallStrip | 1/07 | Angel | $600k | 4 |
