Jeff Karras is the General Partner and Executive Vice President of Venture Investment at America’s Frontier Fund, where he is a leader on the investment team focused on early-stage and growth investments.

Jeff is an experienced investment professional with more than 20 years investing in early- to growth-stage technology companies and running both strategic and institutional venture funds. In his career, Jeff has invested in over 40 companies with 23 exits to date, including 6 companies that reached exit through IPO.

In addition to his role at America’s Frontier Fund, Jeff is a co-founder of Alter Venture Partners, a VC fund targeting disruptive enterprise companies, where he has served as a Managing Partner since its inception in 2018. Prior to Alter Venture Partners, Jeff helped found Singtel Innov8 Ventures, the strategic arm of Singapore Telecom, where he was the Managing Director responsible for running the fund’s North American and Israeli investment activities from 2010 until his departure in 2018. Before joining Innov8, Jeff was a General Partner with Levensohn Venture Partners from 2001 to 2010.

Prior to his career in venture, Jeff held roles in product marketing at Sun Microsystems and strategic consulting with PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Jeff received a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.