Jacob Cohen

General Partner

2021 - Current

Magic is a global 30M pre-seed and seed fund focused on founders backing founders.

Business Leader, Patient Navigation

2021 - 2022

Responsible for leading Philips' Patient Navigation business (formerly Medumo) including a team of 60+ employees. Philips' patient navigation business has touched over 15m patients and is partnered with 10 the top 20 health systems in the US to deliver a best-in-class patient experience and improve operational efficiency.

Strategy and Innovation Lead

2019 - 2021

Co-Founder & COO (acquired by Philips)

2016 - 2019

Acquired 2019 by Philips Healthcare) Patient navigation is critical to successful healthcare outcomes, yet in most healthcare settings patient navigation consists of labor intensive phone calls or emails that are time consuming and ineffective. Medumo’s CareTours™ enable healthcare organizations to guide patients using automated just-in-time, turn-by-turn instructions and checklists. CareTours are “automated patient outreach protocols” that are customizable, mobile friendly, highly engaging and adaptive to patients’ needs without requiring staff time.

Summer Consulting Intern

2015 - 2015

Worked on K-12 education team to help public sector organizations solve financial management and oprational efficiency challenges.

Education Pioneers Consultant

2014 - 2014

Led comprehensive investigation of operational challenges within Office of Student Enrollment and designed knowledge management platform to improve efficiency and performance of enrollment and admissions systems impacting 1.1 million students.

Deputy Director

2010 - 2014

Served as Deputy Director of a community non-profit organization devoted to youth development and empowerment and founded The Raise Your Hand Campaign, a program through which hundreds of students and parents have brought about policy improvements in New Orleans public and charter schools.

Participatory Budgeting Program Evaluation Consultant

2014 - 2014

Served as principal researcher hired to evaluate first year of Boston's innovative budgeting process that enables youth to determine how $1,000,000 in City’s capital budget is allocated

Deputy Director

2009 - 2010

Developed the nation’s largest revenue-generating chapter of Challah for Hunger (CfH), a campus-based organization that raises money through selling bread to support various local and international humanitarian causes and helped to design national non-profit organization to support chapter incubation and scaling efforts at campuses across the country.