Jake Dwyer is AI Strategy and Solutions Architect at Red Iron Group.
Jake leads AI strategy across Red Iron's investing and value-creation activities, partnering closely with the investment team and RIG Builders team to translate advances at the AI frontier into differentiated business and investment outcomes. His work focuses on informing how Red Iron evaluates companies and markets, helping portfolio companies develop and implement high-impact AI strategies and capabilities, and applying AI to improve the firm's investment processes and operations.
Prior to joining Red Iron Group, Jake was Founder and Managing Partner of Factor Capital, an early-stage venture firm. Before Factor, he was Managing Director and Head of Venture & Platform at GSR Markets, where he built and led an investment and technology platform spanning engineering, product, and investments.
Previously, Jake was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Venn at Two Sigma Investments. He built and led the firm's first external commercial product, an institutional investment analytics platform that made Two Sigma's quantitative models accessible to investment allocators to help analyze and direct more than $5T in assets. Jake also served as Chief Operating Officer of HyperScience, where he helped build the early team and turn the company's machine learning technology into a deployable enterprise AI product used by Fortune 500 businesses and government agencies.
Jake began his career in equity derivatives at Merrill Lynch and later held operating leadership roles at Handy (acquired by Angi) and Instinctiv (acquired by SoundCloud).
Jake holds an MBA from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.