Jessica Weiss

Jessica Weiss is a Vice President on Hamilton Lane's Venture Capital & Growth Equity team, where she sources and evaluates venture capital and growth equity investment opportunities. Her work spans fund investments and direct investments, and she also supports sourcing and due diligence efforts for secondaries. Within the firm she serves as co-chair of Hamilton Lane's Women's Exchange and co-chair of the Investment Team Sustainability Taskforce.

She began her career in 2015 as an Analyst at ARCIS Capital (part of ARCIS Group), the independent international asset-management firm founded in 1993 that specializes in private-equity secondaries and, more recently, blockchain investments. Over roughly six years at ARCIS she rose to Associate, focusing on due diligence, monitoring, and reporting for secondary investment opportunities. The ARCIS contact details in the source record ([hidden] and the London +44 20 7494 2110 line) date from this period.

Jessica joined Hamilton Lane in 2021, moving from a secondaries-focused private-equity role into the firm's venture and growth-equity practice. She holds a B.A. (Hons) in Business Finance from Durham University.

• Invests on behalf of an institutional platform (Hamilton Lane), primarily as a limited partner in VC and growth-equity funds, alongside direct/co-investments and secondaries — not as an individual angel writing seed checks.
• Coverage spans venture capital and growth equity, with additional exposure to private-equity and infrastructure secondaries reflecting her ARCIS secondaries background.
• Emphasis on fund manager evaluation, due diligence, monitoring, and reporting — the classic LP/fund-of-funds diligence skill set carried over from her ARCIS secondaries work.
• Publicly reflects a view that "venture capital isn't just for early stage" (per a 2025 LinkedIn post), consistent with her growth-equity and later-stage / secondaries orientation.