Jason Hoffman

Active Investor

Head of Federal at Switch

Los Gatos, California

Jason Hoffman, Head of Federal at Switch is an active investor based in Los Gatos, California. This profile covers what Jason Hoffman backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr. Jason Hoffman serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Federal at Switch. He founded and served as Chief Executive Officer and President at MobiledgeX. He has decades of experience in telecommunications and cloud infrastructure, which have driven him to design the future of mobile edge services, applications, and devices. He is considered one of the architects of large-scale computing, having led the development of container technologies, asynchronous, high concurrency runtimes and con, verged server, storage and net, and working systems. For over a decade, he was the Founder and was the Chief Technology Officer of pioneering IaaS and software provider Joyent (now owned by Samsung). Here, he ran product, engineering, operations, and commercial management for a decade, launching the most popular asynchronous runtime (node.js), the most secure KVM-based VMs, as well as the world's first serverless and first container-as-a-service offering. Most recently, he served as a technology officer for Digital Services at Ericsson, where he led a 30,000 p30,000-personsponsible for the company's multinational cloud and data center infrastructure business. While at Ericsson, his group led the market in the modernization of telecom infrastructure and created the world's first hyper-scale, disaggregated system. He is also an Angel Investor at Baroc Pub.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage VenturePre Seed
Invests in: SaaS & EnterpriseConsumer & RetailFashion & BeautyClimate & EnergyPropTech & Real EstateEdTechFoodTech & AgricultureFood & Beverage
Location: Los Gatos, California
Typical check: $275K
Past investments: 15

Notable investments

American TowerJ.A. Hoffman & Co.The Mind Company GroupGuardtimeIncredible Labsnpm, Inc.Baroc PubElevate LabsMob ScienceiGrant.ioNew ContextWordPress Foundation

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