Jay Bartot
Jay Bartot is currently Co-founder/CTO at AirSignal, CTO at Lev, Technical Advisor/CTO at TheFounderVC, Startup Mentor at Creative Destruction Lab, and Affiliate Professor at University of Washington. He has founded several startups, including Farecast and Medify, both acquired, Lev and Zeitworks, where he remains active. His expertise spans technology entrepreneurship, generative AI, machine learning, and strategic leadership in startup environments.
Lev names startup veteran Jay Bartot as CTO to build its ‘AI co-founder’ and productize PSL playbook
Lev, a Pioneer Square Labs spinout building an 'AI co-founder' for entrepreneurs, named veteran startup builder Jay Bartot as CTO to help productize the venture-studio playbook and launched Lev Learn, a free guide to startup terminology.
Seattle-San Francisco Fund TheFounderVC Launches $5M Inaugural Vertical AI Early Stage Fund
TheFounderVC (TFVC), a new early stage fund based in Seattle and San Francisco, publicly launched its inaugural $5 million fund focused on vertical AI startups. TFVC plans to invest $100,000 to $250,000 in 25 to 30 pre-seed and seed companies, mostly with ties to Seattle, including startups in AI-powered knowledge storage, science automation, weather risk planning, and more.
Zeitworks Raises $2M, Jazz Ventures and Madrona Back ML Startup as Jay Bartot Becomes CEO
Seattle startup Zeitworks raised $2 million in new funding from Jazz Ventures and Madrona Venture Group and appointed Seattle tech veteran Jay Bartot as CEO, succeeding Ryan Windham. The company uses machine learning to analyze user interactions and recommend automation or augmentation to improve repetitive business processes and plans to expand pilot customers.
Organizations
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Lev CTO 2026–present · current
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TheFounderVC Technical Advisor/CTO 2026–present · current
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University of Washington Affiliate Professor 2025–present · current
Education
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University of Iowa Music, Anthropology, Computer Science · 1988–1992
