Jason Davis

Jason previously founded the venture-backed startup Adtuitive acquired by Etsy in 2009. Adtuitive provided simple, automated, and effective ads for online retailers. Post acquisition, Jason managed several teams at Etsy spanning data, search, and advertising. He also led several strategic initiatives including Etsy's Search Ads, Etsy's search relevancy changes, Etsy's A/B testing framework, and all of Etsy's data analytics infrastructure.

Prior to Adtuitive, Jason earned a PhD in machine learning from the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation focused on algorithms to learn distance measures for use in information retrieval, search, and machine learning applications.

Jason is an active member of the NYC startup community and has invested in over a dozen startups including Justworks and Compass.