Jon serves as an Investment Professional of Silverton Partners, a venture capital firm based out of Austin. Silverton just finished raising a 75MM Fund focused on Texas-based companies. Prior to joining Silverton in 2014, Mr. Bassett worked at DFJ Frontier, where he focused on seed and early stage investments in technology, software and media. He started his career at Dell where he gained sales and operational experience working with inside sales teams and has since co-founded several startups including a long-short equities hedge fund. Mr. Bassett received a B.A. in Economics from Davidson College.