Richard Harjes

Richard Harjes

General Partner atNEXT Frontier CapitalBozeman

Richard Harjes is a General Partner at Next Frontier Capital with decades of quantitative investment experience. He co-founded Willow Spring Ranch Montana and has led investments in several companies.

What Richard can write

Writes checks of$500K to $10M
Comes in atPre-seed, Seed, Series ACan lead the round
Ownership target> 12%At first check
Pitch pageSubmit on their siteThe firm asks founders to apply here.

NEXT Frontier Capital writes $500K to $10M checks, larger than 71% of firms in the atlas.

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Career

  1. Barclays Global Investors · founding member of the Alpha Strategies Group
  2. Numeric Investors · Director of Research and partner
  3. Citadel Investment Group · Managing Director of the Statistical Arbitrage business
  4. Next Frontier Capital · General Partner
    Now
  5. Barclays Global Investors
  6. Citadel Investment Group · Managing Director

Companies founded

Willow Spring Ranch MontanaSTEAMlab

Investments named in public bios

401GOKing EnergyBridger PhotonicsmpathicTetra InsightsViris Detection SystemBonuslySpecial TVAumniTwinThreadSectionAtaataClearas Water RecoveryIronCore LabsBlackmoreSubmittable

Focus

quantitative investmentsstatistical arbitragemachine learningsustainable agricultureeducationstatistical modeling

Education

Duke UniversityUniversity of Arizona

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Who is Richard Harjes?

Richard Harjes is a General Partner at Next Frontier Capital with decades of quantitative investment experience. He co-founded Willow Spring Ranch Montana and has led investments in several companies.

How much does Richard Harjes invest?

Richard Harjes invests through NEXT Frontier Capital, which writes checks of $500K to $10M at pre-seed, seed, series a.

How do I pitch Richard Harjes?

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What did Richard Harjes do before NEXT Frontier Capital?

founding member of the Alpha Strategies Group at Barclays Global Investors; Director of Research and partner at Numeric Investors; Managing Director of the Statistical Arbitrage business at Citadel Investment Group; Barclays Global Investors; Managing Director at Citadel Investment Group.

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