Residence San Francsico, CA Occupation Entrepreneur | Nationality American Organization founded CrowdMed | |
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Education Business degree from University of Texas at Austin | ||
Crowdmed founder jared heyman
Jared Heyman is an American entrepreneur who founded Infosurv and CrowdMed. He has a business degree from the University of Texas and holds two US patents.
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While studying at the University of Texas at Austin, Heyman had internships at Bain & Company and Collective Technologies, a small tech firm. Jared Heyman graduated magna cum laude with a business degree. He founded Infosurv in 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia. 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. 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.
In 2010, Heyman left Infosurv for a two-year around-the-world traveling sabbatical, which was featured in an Inc. magazine cover story in November 2011.
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. The company was inspired by his sister who had a rare genetic disease that took three years to diagnose, and has raised $3.15M 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
In 2014, Heyman gave a TEDMED talk to reveal how crowd wisdom can help solve even the most elusive medical mysteries. IHC reports that Heyman has been quoted or featured in hundreds of media articles