About Jared
Jared Heyman is a seasoned American technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist known for applying innovative crowd-based solutions to challenging real-world problems. His career is marked by success in founding and leading multiple high-growth companies. Jared’s journey into healthcare began after his younger sister spent over three years and more than $100,000 seeking a diagnosis for a rare genetic disorder. Inspired by this struggle, he co-founded CrowdMed in 2012. As CEO, he used crowdsourcing and prediction market technology to create a platform where “medical detectives” could help solve difficult medical mysteries online, often more quickly and affordably than the traditional health system. CrowdMed was backed by major Silicon Valley investors, including Andreessen-Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, before its acquisition in 2024. Before CrowdMed, Jared founded Infosurv, an internet survey company that achieved over $20 million in revenue before being successfully acquired in 2023. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and a former consultant at Bain & Company, he also spent a two-year sabbatical traveling the world, which helped inform his global perspective on innovation. Jared has shifted his focus to venture capital as the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Rebel Fund. This seed-stage fund focuses on investing in top Y Combinator startups, using a proprietary machine-learning algorithm called Rebel Theorem to predict their success. He also serves as a Trustee for the philanthropic Heyman Family Foundation.
