AAA Kevin Jacques leaves Visa Ventures

Kevin Jacques leaves Visa Ventures

Kevin Jacques, former head of US-headquartered payment services firm Visa’s corporate venturing unit, Visa Ventures, has been made a partner at investment firm Cota Capital.

Jacques is now one of the partners managing Cota’s Fintech Fund, according to his LinkedIn profile. The firm has $1bn of assets under management.

He has been replaced at Visa Ventures by Neal Kapur, who has been senior director there since 2017.

Visa hired Jacques in 2017 after six years in financial software provider Intuit’s acquisitions and investment team. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at Palomar Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds, CEO of asset tracking product developer GlobeRanger and a consultant at Boston Consulting Group.

Photo of Kevin Jacques courtesy of LinkedIn.

By James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.