Founding General Partner @ FoundersEdge

Investor.
Founder.
Speaker.

Pre-seed investor backing AI-native companies. Exited founder. On a mission to get more women founding, exiting, and investing.

Jess Lynch
Jess Lynch at FoundersEdge

Building the future alongside founders

I'm a Founding General Partner at FoundersEdge, a pre-seed fund backing experienced founders building AI-native companies designed to last.

As an exited MarTech founder, I care deeply about how startups are built—not just what they raise. I help with product, GTM experiments, fundraising, and the emotional rollercoaster that comes with startup life.

I started my career at PwC in Financial Forensics, graduated 2x Valedictorian from Babson (MBA + MS Accounting), and am a licensed CPA.

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Startups supported

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Founder

15k+

Social following

FoundersEdge ⚡ Founders Helping Founders

Greg Raiz and I combine complementary backgrounds—his deep technical expertise and my product, finance and operations experience—to support founders building AI-native companies designed to last.

We invest early and surround founders with a hands-on network of experienced operators and multi-time founders LPs.

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Experienced Founders

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Technical Chops

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UpLevel

Where women founders & investors move the needle, together.

In 2024, I launched UpLevel—a curated lunch series uniting women founders and investors to spark action, not just conversation. These intimate gatherings have already driven real results: investments, customer intros, strategic hires, and lasting partnerships.

To scale the impact, we now host an annual UpLevel Summit, designed to activate the full power of this growing network.

20+

Curated lunches

180+

Founders & investors

7+

Cities

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Sharing what I've learned

As an exited founder turned investor, I speak on the real stuff—fundraising, exits, pivots, and building companies that last. I bring actionable insights to every talk.

  • Fundraising Process — Tips for Success and Pitfalls to Avoid
  • Navigating Exits & M&A
  • Setting Up an Investor-Ready Data Room
  • Find the Problem: Customer Discovery
  • Investor Updates
  • Mastering the First Investor Meeting
  • 10 Steps to Pivoting or Launching a Product
  • And More
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Boston, MA + Hartford, CT