Shasta Ventures
Jacob has 15 years of experience building technology startups – both as a venture capital partner and as an entrepreneur. He is a serial founder who most recently built an AI-powered software platform for the M&A industry called Exitround. Previously, he built out a B2B developer platform program at Microsoft called BizSpark. At Shasta, Jacob focuses on investments in SaaS applications broadly, with a particular focus in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality. Jacob holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Yale University. Jacob is a Kauffman Fellow alumnus of Class 22, and is a co-founding Board Member of LatinxVC, which enables career development of Latinos and Latinas in Venture Capital.
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Shasta Ventures
Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm with over a billion dollars under management. Shasta has a 15-year track record of investing in groundbreaking startups like Anaplan, Zuora, Nest, Nextdoor, SendBird, Tonal, Lattice, Glint, Highspot and hundreds more. Shasta now invests in innovative series A enterprise startups in sectors like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence and camera vision.