Jared Heyman
Jared Heyman is an American entrepreneur who founded Infosurv and CrowdMed.[1][2][3] He has a business degree from the University of Texas and holds two US patents.[4][5]
Jared Heyman | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Business degree from University of Texas at Austin |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Title | Founder of Infosurv CEO & Founder of CrowdMed |
While studying at the University of Texas at Austin, Heyman had internships at Bain & Company and Collective Technologies, a small tech firm.[1] Jared Heyman graduated magna cum laude with a business degree.[4] He founded Infosurv in 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] Infosurv is an Internet survey company specializing in employee and customer surveys for market research purposes, which Heyman grew to over $20M in cumulative revenue.[1][2][6][7] In 2013, Infosurv spun out a new company called Intengo, which uses crowdsourcing techniques to help clients develop new ideas and go-to-market strategies.[8]
Jared Heyman is currently chief executive officer and founder of CrowdMed, established April 2013, which is a crowdsourcing platform where people submit medical cases and get suggested diagnosis information to take to their doctors.[2][3] The company was inspired by his sister who had a rare genetic disease that took three years to diagnose and has raised $4.2M in venture capital from Silicon Valley venture capital firms and individual investors including actor Patrick Dempsey, 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki, and Y Combinator president Sam Altman[2][3][4][7][9][10] Heyman also serves as a General Partner at Pioneer Fund, a venture capital fund that pools capital and expertise from 100+ Y Combinator alumni to support the next generation of YC startups.[11]
In 2014, Heyman gave a TEDMED talk to reveal how crowd wisdom can help solve even the most elusive medical mysteries.[7] IHC reports that Heyman has been quoted or featured in hundreds of media articles[12]
References
- Manoj Jasra (January 31, 2007). "Interview – Infosurv President Jared Heyman". Web Analytics World. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- Tom Fowler (May 7, 2014). "Crowdsourcing as a Medical Tool: Interview with CrowdMed CEO Jared Heyman". MedGadget. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- Erica Dhawan (January 14, 2015). "How to Get Big Things Done in 2015". Forbes. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- Mark Huffman (September 26, 2014). "People with mystery illnesses are finding answers in the crowd". ConsumerAffairs. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- "Google Patent Search - Lee Jared Heyman".
- Mallory Leone (April 1, 2014). "Medical detectives deal in challenging diagnoses on CrowdMed's virtual stock market". MedCity News. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- "Jared Heyman". TEDMED. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- "New Crowdsourcing Firm Intengo Launches". mrweb. October 18, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
- "Crunchbase | CrowdMed".
- "Patrick 'McDreamy' Dempsey Invests in Health Startup CrowdMed". WSJ. May 20, 2014.
- "Pioneer Fund team page".
- "2016 IHC FORUM & Expo - May 24-26, 2016 - Atlanta, Georgia". www.theihccforum.com. Retrieved 2016-08-11.