The human social network.
Real people. Real videos. Real money — anywhere in the world.
Authentic social
Front + back camera, unedited “jellies.” No filters, no algorithmic performance treadmill. Every Zoom-worthy moment, postable in a tap.
Agentic payments
Stablecoins + Solana native. Send money inside a video — NYC to Lagos in seconds. Venmo, globalized, embedded in social.
AI does the work
Transcription, captions, summaries — automatic. Creators just show up and talk. The best content wins on a level playing field.
The band is back together.
The team that turned “I’ll Venmo you” into a verb is now rebuilding social from the ground up.
Iqram Magdon-Ismail
- Cofounder of Venmo (acq. Braintree → PayPal)
- Hundreds of billions in payments volume
- NYC-native operator, 15+ years in payments
Andrew Kortina
- Cofounder of Venmo alongside Iqram
- Cofounder of Fin (AI ops, acq. tech)
- Product + engineering leadership
A venture collective meets a social network for humans.
Loeb.nyc has spent 30+ years turning ambitious ideas into billion-dollar businesses. Jelly is the next one — and it lives in your backyard.
How Loeb plugs in
- Portfolio cross-pollination. Every Loeb company (Fetch, ScriptRelief, Penrose Hill, and beyond) has a story to tell on Jelly — creators, campaigns, community.
- NYC ground game. Loeb HQ is midtown; Jelly HQ is downtown. Co-host events, tap the Loeb intern pipeline, run the “everyone in NYC on Jelly” playbook together.
- Shared services flywheel. Legal, back-office, and growth muscle from the Loeb toolshed — plug directly into a scaling social platform.
- Payments distribution. Every Loeb portfolio company is a candidate for embedded stablecoin rails via Jelly.
What Jelly brings back
- A generational founder relationship. The Venmo team, at the ground floor of their second act.
- A distribution channel that portfolio cos can’t buy on Meta or TikTok — authentic, human-first video reach.
- A payments layer that turns any Loeb company into a global-money-movement story.
- Signal into the startup ecosystem — Jelly is where NYC founders, YC alums, and web3 engineers are already gathering (see: A.Cafe at Sigiri).
$15M SAFE. Raising $2M from strategic growth partners.
We’re optimizing for partners who move the needle: distribution, financial-markets credibility, and operators who’ve scaled consumer social. Loeb sits squarely in that lane.
From 40k to 1M. ASAP.
A concrete path from today’s base to a real consumer network, with NYC as the wedge.
NYC wedge
Geofenced landing, live counter, “get everyone in NYC on Jelly.” Convert the density.
Creator + community loops
Real-life events (A.Cafe, Nas Daily, meetups), founder-native content, viral “jellies” from launches.
Payments-driven pull
Global stablecoin transfers inside video. Every send = a share = a new user in a new country.