Jenn Kranz Guillen

Investor

Based in Venice, California, Jenn Kranz Guillen is an investor at Mucker Capital, where she partners with early-stage startups across the West Coast. She has led investments across HealthTech, FinTech, and Supply Chain, with a particular focus on vertical SaaS platforms and AI-native applications transforming legacy industries. Jenn has supported more than 30 portfolio companies through successful fundraising efforts—shaping narratives, optimizing materials, and facilitating investor introductions.

Jenn brings experience from both sides of the table. She previously contributed to investments at MTech Capital and B Capital Group, enabling over $500M in potential downstream transaction value. At Halogen Ventures, she supported acquisition strategies and LP fundraising initiatives. Earlier, she joined the founding team at Haystack, a venture-backed communications startup, where she built and executed the company’s first GTM sales campaign—driving pipeline that contributed 15% of the annual revenue target.

Jenn began her career at TriNet, where she served as the Venture Capital Practice Leader and was recognized as the top-ranked Technology Consultant in Los Angeles—TriNet’s third-largest market—advising early-stage teams on HR and operational strategy.

A double Trojan (fight on!), Jenn earned both her MBA and BA from the University of Southern California.

Jenn can be reached at jenn at mucker dot com.

Articles by Jenn Kranz Guillen

Understanding The Vertical SaaS Product Stack

If you’re thinking about launching a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, there are two different ways to approach the market. Horizontal SaaS: These companies aim to create a product that services a...

Founder Interview: Amanda Szabo, founder and CEO, ResortPass

Building a successful business is hardly as fun as a day at the pool, though for Amanda Szabo, that’s how hers got started. The founder and CEO of Santa Monica’s...

Founder Interview: Guillermo Gette, co-founder and CEO, Workast

Babies have played a pivotal role in the life and career of Workast co-founder and CEO Guillermo Gette. It was his parents’ baby-product store back home in Buenos Aires, Argentina,...

Founder Interview: Daniel Kim & Jay Lee, AuditBoard

If they weren’t busy running L.A.-based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. The company’s co-founders grew up playing basketball together in Cerritos,...

Founder Interview: Gaurav Bhattacharya. Co-founder and CEO, InvolveSoft

Gaurav Bhattacharya acknowledges he didn’t make the best impression on his co-founder, Saumya Bhatnagar, when they met in a high school coding class in New Delhi. Out of 160 students,...

Founder Interview: Susanne Mitschke, co-founder and CEO, MindMate

  Santa Monica-based MindMate has come a long way since launching in co-founder Susanne Mitschke’s two-bedroom Glasgow apartment in early 2015. Less than four years later, the popular healthy living...

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