Jared Sorin

Practice Areas

TRANSACTIONS

EMERGING GROWTH COMPANIES & VENTURE CAPITAL

FINTECH

FINANCE

TECHNOLOGY

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

CROSS-BORDER TRANSACTIONS

PRIVATE EQUITY TRANSACTIONS

CAPITAL MARKETS

ENERGY TRANSITION

DIGITAL COMMERCE

BRAND & REPUTATION MANAGEMENT

NAME, IMAGE & LIKENESS (NIL)

Career

Jared Sorin is a partner in Brown Rudnick's Transactions Practice Group and a co-practice group leader of the firm's Emerging Growth Companies & Venture Capital group. Jared represents start-up, early-stage and emerging-growth companies, as well as the investors who support them. He advises entrepreneurial clients in a broad range of technology-driven industries regarding general corporate, finance (including, private equity and venture capital), and other transactional matters, including choice of business entity, securities law compliance, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, and strategic alliances. His investor clients include angel investors, family offices, venture capital funds, and other private equity firms regarding their investments in early-stage and emerging-growth companies.

In addition to his client service, Jared is committed to the emerging companies and venture capital markets and is recognized as an industry thought leader. Jared frequently speaks on topics of interest to the entrepreneurial and venture communities. He serves as a mentor and advisor for various accelerator, incubator, and entrepreneurial networking groups, including, among others, the Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship (ILSE) at Kean University, the NYU Startup School, the NYU Summer Launchpad Accelerator Program, Mount Sinai Innovation Partners, Atlantic Health Venture Studio, and Young Jewish Professionals. Jared also is a member of the Board of Advisors of TechUnited, a nonprofit organization that supports the technology and life science industries in New Jersey. In addition, in 2016, he cofounded an accelerator program for idea-stage startup companies in New York and New Jersey, characterized by a unique system of cross-equity ownership designed to foster collaboration and community among the accelerator’s portfolio companies. Jared also helped to cofound a venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage and emerging growth companies in New York and New Jersey and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region that have demonstrated early traction in a wide variety of tech and tech-enabled industry sectors, such as artificial and augmented intelligence, virtual reality, fintech, teltech, and climate tech.

Jared is recognized as a leading lawyer for Emerging Companies and Venture Capital by publications including Chambers, where clients commented that “his advice is thoughtful and considerate of his clients’ needs”, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers.

Professional Memberships

Mentor/Instructor, Entrepreneur Training Program at the Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship (ILSE) at Kean University

Mentor, NYU Startup School

Mentor, NYU Summer Launchpad Accelerator Program

Mentor, Atlantic Health Venture Studio

Mentor/Advisor, Mount Sinai Innovation Partners

Mentor, Young Jewish Professionals

Work Highlights

Artesian Partners as lead investor in the cross-border $10 million Series Seed financing of Coherence Neuro, a developer of a therapeutic brain-computer interface (BCI) for the potential treatment of cancer.

Envision Health Technologies, a digital health company combining virtual reality diagnostic testing with AI to detect and monitor eye diseases, in its Series Seed financing.

Junebrain, developer of a wearable retinal imaging system for the remote assessment and monitoring of neurological diseases, in its Series Seed extension.

ProFrac Holding, a Nasdaq-listed energy services company, in a $105 million deal to sell the mobile power generation assets and related intellectual property of its subsidiary, ProFrac GDM, to Flotek Industries.

Atlantic Health Systems in a convertible note financing of Conceivable Life Sciences, a biotechnology research company using AI and robotics to develop the world’s first fully automated in vitro fertilization (IVF) lab.

Certain stockholders of Visual Lease, a software platform that develops cloud-based lease accounting and administration software, in an acquisition by CoStar Realty.

Credit2B on its sale of a new credit management solution to Factor Systems, d/b/a Billtrust, the leader in B2B payment cycle management. Credit2B combines cloud-based software, crowdsourcing, and deep data to provide customer payment behaviors and financial risk information.

Differential Venture Partners as lead investor in the Preferred Stock financing of numerous emerging growth technology companies, among others:

Aktus, which utilizes AI technology and industry specific data to build action-oriented AI platforms for the purposes of optimizing workflows within such industries.

Bazze and Company, an AI powered data marketplace for defense and commercial customers.

DeepSurface Security, a risk-based predictive vulnerability management platform.

Demoleap, a real-time AI sales assistant designed to help sales representatives perfect live sales demos.

Flow Finance, a financial intelligence platform.

Hatch Giving, a “giving intelligence platform” for fundraisers, marketers, and volunteers to streamline and maximize impact.

Orchestra Technologies, an AI-driven solution for data pipelining and enterprise transformation.

Vera AI, an assessment platform designed to identify and address risk in artificial intelligence and machine learning models.

Frich, an app targeted towards Gen Z designed to make money social and enable users to make informed choices and navigate their financial lives, in a Series Seed Preferred Stock financing.

Fundraise Up, an online donation platform for non-profits designed to increase engagement and donations, in a Series B Preferred Stock financing and secondary sale from existing stockholders.

Glorious, a lifestyle gaming hardware company that provides PC hardware and accessories engineered for performance, quality, high-end aesthetics and affordability, in its acquisition by Francisco Partners.

Hotshot, a digital learning platform for lawyers, in the consummation of a Series Pre-Seed II Preferred Stock financing.

i&i Biotech Fund, as lead investor in its investment in Vasa Therapeutics, a biotechnology company committed to the discovery and development of therapeutics that target the pathophysiology of cardiovascular aging.

Northpass, a learning platform that enables organizations to train employees, customers, and channel partners, in its acquisition by Gainsight.

Offsite Experiences, a platform that helps companies plan cost-effective team retreats, in a Series Seed Preferred Stock financing and a Series Seed extension round.

Ospraie Ag Science as lead investor in:

The Series A Preferred Stock financing of Four Growers, which is developing a robotic harvesting technology designed to provide healthy, affordable, local produce.

The Series C Preferred Stock financing of Freight Farms, a vertical farming platform intended to offer on-site commercial food production anywhere.

Pace Ventures, a Berlin-based venture capital fund, and Spectrum Value Management, a family office based in Switzerland, as lead investors in the Series A-3 financing of Neurable, a neurotechnology company specializing in developing AI-powered tools for brain signal translation and brain-computer interface technology.

Roo, a smart home security systems company, in a Series AA Preferred Stock Financing.

Square Mile Foundry, a venture studio that designs and develops bespoke software solutions that spin out into new companies, in an equity financing.

TelTech Systems, a startup that develops telecom-focused web and mobile apps to improve communications for end users, in its sale to IAC Applications.

Walkabout Ventures as lead investor in the Preferred Stock financing of numerous emerging growth technology companies, among others:

Halden Rock, a company developing a tech-enabled financing platform built for the AI age.

Ascension Software, a compensation benchmarking and analytics platform for large institutional allocators.

Backpack Technologies, which is developing technology solution designed to help facilitate and track the use of 529 Plans.

Tempyl Technologies, a vertical software solution provider focused on health/beauty stores.

Zero-In Media, a New York City-based digital signage company that provides software and hardware to restaurants that utilize digital menus, in its strategic sale to Trison, a leading digital signage integrator in Europe.

Education