| General | Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, VC, The Bills, Distance Running, Yoga, 35mm Photography, Longevity & Biohacking, Word Games, Vibe Coding |
| Currently Reading | Bored and Brilliant, Manoush Zomorodi; Breakfast with Seneca |
| Currently Watching | Pluribus, From, The Chair Company |
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| Buffalo Business First | ACV, Startups & Career as a Buffalo Expat A profile on returning to Buffalo and getting immersed in the local startup community. |
| Fill to Capacity | Digital Detox and the Great Unscroll (Podcast) A conversation about a two-year experiment with a dumb phone and what it changed. |
| Buffalo Inno | LaunchNY Commits $250K Investment into Refraction Highlights news from our Refraction pre-seed round. |
| Invest Buffalo Niagara | Jason Bartz on Good Neighbor Fund (Podcast) A conversation about the mission and growth of Good Neighbor Fund. |
| The Denver Post | Denver Microgrants for Entrepreneurs: Good Neighbor Fund Covers the launch of our Denver GNF chapter. |
| The Buffalo News | Good Neighbor Fund Will Give $1,000 Grants to Entrepreneurs A feature in the Buffalo News about our GNF launch. |
| Buffalo Rising | The Good Neighbor Fund: Micro Grants for Start-Ups Another feature of GNF's launch, covering our launch party. |
| Buffalo Inno | Good Neighbor Fund Micro-Grant Program Launches Covers my co-founder and I founding Good Neighbor Fund. |
| Buffalo Business First | TakeItAll Startup Update Discusses TakeItAll's relaunch and early traction. |
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About Me:
I'm a GTM leader, currently leading partnerships at Vero Technologies. Previously I helped build some great teams at ACV Auctions. I love building. I'm a co-founder of Refraction, an automotive SaaS company and Good Neighbor Fund, a grant program supporting early-stage entrepreneurs.
I'm a husband, and father of two amazing kiddos, Levi and Tinsley. When I'm not working, I'm usually tinkering with a new project, taking photos, or over-engineering my longevity protocol.
Jason's Projects
Co-Founder, Refraction
I co-founded Refraction, an automotive SaaS platform built to future-proof dealerships — think Shopify for car dealers. Venture-backed with multiple products in market, including GhostLot, a standalone product within the Refraction ecosystem.
Co-Founder, Good Neighbor Fund
A micro-grant program supporting ideation-stage founders, with over $30k awarded to date. Day-to-day work spans fundraising, brand and content strategy, social growth, and building out the GNF platform.
Founder, Tempo
An ambient revenue intelligence layer that sits on top of the tools sales teams already use — Slack, Gmail, Jira, and more — surfacing insights and driving action without adding another app to the stack.
Creator, Your Life Weekly
An iOS app and website for learning about Stoic wisdom and applying Stoic principles to modern life, paired with an e-commerce store of Stoic-inspired goods.
Creator, Tandem Daily Games
A collection of daily puzzle games — word games, crosswords, movie games, and Daily Alchemy, an element crafting puzzle. Hundreds of daily active users across iOS and web.
Who I'd Like To Meet
Other builders, entrepreneurs and creators. Fellow parents trying to balance work and family. Anyone interested in longevity, digital minimalism, or just having good conversations about building things. People that believe that you can "just do things."
Jason's Friends
Levi
Tinsley
Toby
Jason's Experience
Vero Technologies
2022 - Present
VP of Partnerships
January 2025 – Present
Currently leading partnerships, marketing, partner success, and overseeing our Business Process Outsourcing operations.
Head of Growth
December 2023 – January 2025
I led partnerships, customer success, marketing and growth of our SaaS business. Additionally, I led the national sales team of our direct lending business, in which I wrote our playbook, hosted SKOs, and brought new lending products to market.
Director of Portfolio Management
December 2022 – December 2023
Built out the portfolio, risk, and remarketing functions and developed our customer success function. Additionally, I led the development of our OEM and Equipment program.
Director of Growth
August 2022 – December 2022
I was focused on building our TOFU strategy and GTM playbook. Worked closely with the Exec team on defining QBOs as we grew our direct lending business.
ACV Auctions
2017 - 2022
Senior Manager, Sales & Execution - ACV Capital
October 2021 – August 2022
Led sales ops, special projects and started our customer success organization. I worked with senior leadership to develop new programs to further expand our portfolio, which exceeded $100M at the time I left.
Portfolio Manager - ACV Capital
January 2020 – October 2021
Founding member of ACV Capital, ACV's commercial lending division. I built our national field auditing program and early portfolio and risk functions.
Regional Field Operations Manager
November 2018 – January 2020
Initial hire for this new role, bridging the gap between sales, training and operations. Worked within ACV's highest performing region, across NY, PA, and OH. Wrote the Field Ops playbook and contributed to new policy and product updates.
Manager, Concierge Account Managers
June 2018 – November 2018
Selected to pilot the new Concierge Account Management function, which managed ACV's key franchise accounts. Wrote the playbook which was later adopted by the greater Inside Sales org.
Business Development & Account Manager
August 2017 – June 2018
Initially brought on to focus on new business development, quickly transitioned to Account Management.
