Jordan Fliegel

Jordan Fliegel is Co-founder & CEO of Shareholder Ventures (SHV), a holding company — backed by 85 experienced founders and operators — that helps Acquisition Entrepreneurs acquire SMBs from retiring owners by providing capital, back office support, resources and community to enable the successful “silver tsunami” transition of 500k+ profitable SMBs ($3M-12M enterprise values, leveraging SBA7a loans) by 2040.  Fliegel is passionate about nurturing and promoting American small businesses, and is proud to serve on the Entrepreneurs Council of the Center for American Entrepreneurship.

Before SHV, Fliegel ran eight accelerators from 2019-2024 via Techstars Sports and Techstars NYC, and made 200+ investments since 2013 via Founders First, a vertical-agnostic early-stage angel fund and leading syndicate on AngelList.  Fliegel serves on advisory boards of high-growth startups like Maven AGI, Botkeeper, Fight Camp, and BallerTV.

Fliegel was previously co-CEO of Draft.com, a venture-backed fantasy sports company headquartered in New York.   In 2017, he sold DRAFT to Paddy Power Betfair for $48 million.   Draft won every Fantasy Sports Trade Association award, including “Fantasy Sports Business of The Year,” “Best Games App,” “Best Draft Room,” and “Best Daily Fantasy Sports Game.”  Before Draft, Fliegel was founder and CEO (now Chairman) of CoachUp, America’s leader in sports coaching, with more than 3,000 active coaches conducting lessons every month across the country.  Headquartered in Boston and backed by $14 million in venture capital from firms like General Catalyst and Founder Collective, CoachUp was named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies four times and Andreesen Horowitz Top 100 Marketplaces three times.  NBA MVP Stephen Curry is Fliegel’s partner and lead spokesman at CoachUp.

Fliegel writes and lecturers on entrepreneurship, investing, and leadership and is the author of “Coaching Up!” (Wiley, 2016, with a foreword by NBA Champion Shane Battier).   Fliegel and his co-founders have been named Sports Business Journal “Power Player,” Inc “30 under 30,” Forbes “30 under 30,”  BBJ “40 under 40” and a finalist for Ernst & Young “New England Entrepreneur of the Year.”

Fliegel earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Government from Bowdoin College and an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University, and played professional basketball in Europe before his business career.