Investor profile

Jan Davis

Individual angel investor, distinct from the funds she helped organize, each of which has its own row. Thomasville native and UNC-Chapel Hill MBA who co-founded the Boston direct-marketing company SmartNames in the 1980s, built TransUnion's direct-to-consumer credit business in Chicago, and was CEO of ShopperTrak for four years ending in 2007. Moved to Cary in 2010. Early member and two-year president of Triangle Angel Partners, co-founder of RTP Angel Fund, founding screening-committee member of Carolina Angel Network, member of xElle Ventures and a limited partner in the NC Tweener Fund. Has written personal checks into Roobrik, Seal the Seasons and iScribes, sat on the ShowingTime board for fourteen years through its 2021 sale to Zillow, and co-teaches a venture and angel practicum for second-year MBAs at UNC Kenan-Flagler, per her account on NC Tweener Talks in November 2024.