Jordan Hochenbaum
About Jordan Hochenbaum
Jordan Natan Hochenbaum leads AI at BetterUp. His own site gives the title VP of AI and dates the role from 2021. Crunchbase lists him as Engineering Manager, ML/AI, and places him in Valencia, California. His site and X profile say he is based in New York.
Before BetterUp he co-founded Kadenze, an online learning platform for art, music and creative technology, and was its CTO from 2013 to 2020. He was also CTO of Nirveda Cognition from 2018 to 2020, building enterprise document intelligence, and the company was later acquired. He did machine learning work at Twitter in 2013 and 2014 on anomaly detection and capacity engineering. He says the anomaly detection algorithm he developed there has since been open-sourced.
From 2011 to 2021 he was a professor at California Institute of the Arts. He holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington (2013) in multimodal signal processing and machine learning applied to music. His BFA is from CalArts. He also releases music as Natan H and Gauss.
Crunchbase counts one investment, one portfolio company, no lead investments and no exits. The one recorded investment is a seed round in Kadenze, the company he co-founded. The date and amount are not public. No other angel investments, funds or syndicates are publicly documented.
He has not published an investment thesis, preferred stages, sectors or a check size. The only public data point is the Kadenze seed round, which comes from Crunchbase. Founders should not assume an active angel practice. His operating background is in applied machine learning, AI products for coaching and learning, enterprise document intelligence and creative technology.
Investing activity
Jordan Hochenbaum has made 1 investment according to Crunchbase across 1 portfolio company, and has founded 1 company.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Jordan Hochenbaum
Is Jordan Hochenbaum an active angel investor?
Public records show one investment, a seed round in Kadenze, the company he co-founded. No other angel activity is documented, and he has not said he is seeking deals.
What is Jordan Hochenbaum's check size?
It is not public. Neither Crunchbase nor his own site states a check size or range.
What stage does Jordan Hochenbaum invest in?
The only recorded investment is a seed round, in Kadenze. He has not stated a stage preference.
What companies has Jordan Hochenbaum founded or run?
He co-founded Kadenze and served as its CTO from 2013 to 2020. He was CTO of Nirveda Cognition from 2018 to 2020. Since 2021 he has been at BetterUp, where he leads AI.
Where is Jordan Hochenbaum based?
Crunchbase lists Valencia, California. His personal site and X profile say New York.
How can founders contact Jordan Hochenbaum?
His personal site lists hello@jordanhochenbaum.com, and he has LinkedIn and X profiles. A warm introduction through BetterUp or the AI and ed-tech community is likely to work better than a cold pitch, since he has not announced that he is investing.
Is Jordan Hochenbaum an angel investor?
Yes. Jordan Hochenbaum invests personally as an angel and is Engineering Manager, ML/AI at BetterUp. Crunchbase counts 1 investment.
How can founders reach Jordan Hochenbaum?
Founders on Lounge can see Jordan Hochenbaum's contact details in AI Investor Contacts (paid plans), check for a warm introduction through members who worked with them under Warm Paths, and add Jordan Hochenbaum to their Investor Pipeline to track the conversation.