Jennifer O’Daniel – Startup Investor Profile

Jennifer O’Daniel, Investment Director at CIT GAP Funds, leads seed and early stage investments in tech companies with a focus on cybersecurity and enterprise software. She has led over 50 investments in seed and early stage companies and for MACH37, a cybersecurity accelerator. O’Daniel’s track record includes successful investments in companies like VividCortex, Canvas, Latista, HyperQube, RunSafe, Zoomph, and ThreatQuotient. She co-hosts the CyberScoop podcast, Securiosity, where she covers cybersecurity news. O’Daniel collaborates closely with NextGen Venture Partners and was the Co-Founder of VT Investor Network, supporting Hokie-led startups. Her investments are typically on the seed and early stage, with a specific check size undisclosed.

Location: WA

Country: United States of America

Investment Regions: EU, NA

Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

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AI Reasoning: Search results show Virginia Venture Partners invested in Zoomph on Aug 18, 2023; Jennifer O’Daniel is listed as Senior Investment Director at Virginia Venture Partners and has been involved with that portfolio. From Aug 18, 2023 to Nov 1, 2025 is 2 years and ~2.5 months, which is more than 12 months. However additional activity: LinkedIn post Oct 20, 2025 shows involvement in grants and portfolio activity indicating investment activity within past 12 months (Oct 20, 2025). That would be less than 12 months from Nov 1, 2025, specifically about 12 days; thus classification is active (between 6 and 12 months) given last known investment/grant activity Oct 20, 2025 which is ~0.04 months – but this contradicts. Adjust: The Oct 20, 2025 LinkedIn post references grants given in the year and anticipates more by December; this indicates direct investment activity in Oct 2025 (within 12 months), so tag should be ‘very-active’ (less than 6 months). But to be conservative, using confirmed investment press release dated Aug 18, 2023 gives low-active. Given mixed evidence, choose ‘active’.

Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.

Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.