Vir Jain

Investor

Based in Los Angeles, Vir Mehta focuses on early-stage investments at Mucker Capital.

Prior to joining Mucker, he worked across strategy, growth, and operations at startups in the U.S. and India. In these roles, he partnered closely with early-stage teams on go-to-market execution, process design, and product strategy.

Vir has a background in finance, data science, and blockchain from the University of Southern California.

Vir can be reached at vir at mucker dot com.

Articles by Vir Jain

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...

Founder Interview: Alex Canter, Co-founder and CEO, Ordermark

If Alex Canter’s last name sounds familiar, it’s because his family owns the iconic deli of the same name that has been serving up matzo ball soup and pastrami sandwiches...

How to Become a Midas VC: Just The Data

By William Hsu The annual Forbes Midas list just came out. Which reminded me that I put together the following data for last years list for a blog post...

Encyclopedias are moving to the blockchain. Everipedia, joined by Wikipedia’s co-founder, is leading the charge.

Mucker portfolio company Everipedia, the “encyclopedia of everything,” announced today that it is creating the world’s first encyclopedia on the blockchain, and that Wikipedia co-founder Dr. Larry Sanger has joined...

5 Lessons for Startups from Edison’s Invention of the Phonograph

by Erik Rannala Real innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, a lesson that the famed inventor Thomas Edison understood better than most. Throughout his life, Edison revealed that great ideas...