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]

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]