[1][2] Kaplan is the managing partner of JUMP Investors, a Los Angeles–based venture capital and private equity firm.

[8] In August 1998, Kaplan left SunAmerica to start Akamai Technologies with Tom Leighton, Daniel Lewin, and Jonathan Seelig.

[9] After leaving Akamai, Kaplan started JUMP Investors, a Los Angeles–based venture capital and private equity firm.

[25] Kaplan established the Julia Eder Dean's Scholarship at the University of Michigan in honor of his grandmother.

[29][30][31][32][33][34][35] Gilmelstob later pleaded "no contest" to a felony battery charge, and was sentenced to three years’ probation and 60 days of community labor.