Jason Weingarten

BIO

Jason is the Founding Partner and Managing Director of Subconscious Ventures. The firm focuses on seed stage investments in SaaS Marketplace and Consumer technology companies. Previously Jason co-founded and was the CEO of Yello which is the leader in university recruiting. Today Jason remains an active board member helping to provide the company strategic guidance. As one of Chicago s fastest-growing tech companies Yello helps organizations go from hello to hire on a single platform developed to meet engage capture and nurture the right job candidates. Under Jason s helm Yello s enterprise-level client partners including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies and dozens more high-growth organizations rely on Yello to power their recruitment programs. Jason s journey started as a marketing major at Miami University in Oxford Ohio where he teamed up with Dan Bartfield and won a business plan competition for a product designed to help college students find jobs online - at a time when online was a nascent concept. The college project was later funded by Subway founder Fred DeLuca and became a successful business eCampusRecruiter. After selling eCampusRecruiter Jason took a year off in Paris with his family before returning to the states to again team up with Dan and found Yello previously known as Recsolu. Jason s serial entrepreneurship and business savvy has been noticed by other investors as well. Yellos funding rounds have exceeded 46M. Jason holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from Miami University.