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Jonathan Bruck

Venture Partner at Long Journey Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Jonathan Bruck is a Venture Partner at Long Journey Ventures in San Francisco, California, with a background in product discovery, strategy, and design. He has a strong track record of founding and leading successful ventures, including Brucko, LLC, and has held key roles at companies like Yahoo and Xoopit. Bruck has a diverse educational background with a BS from Stanford University and a Masters from Central St. Martins College of Art & Design. His career highlights include leading product teams at Xoopit, co-founding Justarrive, Inc., and currently serving as a Venture Partner at Long Journey Ventures.

Work Experience 

  • Venture Partner

    2020 - Current

Long Journey Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on early and new investments.

  • Founder

    2003

    Venture Jumpstarts - Crusoe Energy - www.crusoeenergy.com - Pocket (acquired by Mozilla) - www.getpocket.com - Tawkify - www.tawkify.com - Indextank (acquired by Linkedin) - www.indextank.com - Miso - www.gomiso.com - TrialPay - www.trialpay.com - BillShrink - www.billshrink.com - DaysAgo - www.howmanydaysago.com - Hamptons Honey - www.hamptonshoney.com - DiscHub - www.thedischub.com

  • Juggler

    2011 - 2019

    Product Discovery, Growth, Partnersherships, Revenue, Marketing

Pocket is an application that allows users to save and retrieve documents and videos from websites.

Raised $14,500,000.00 from Marc Bell Ventures, QueensBridge Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Mike Ghaffary, Axel Springer Digital Ventures, Sound Ventures, Jared Kopf, DG VENTURES, Foundation Capital and Digital Garage.

  • Person of Interest

    2009 - 2011

Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.

Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.

  • Product Lead

    2007 - 2009

    Lead Product Discovery and Design for the Xoopit Gmail App / Yahoo MyPhotos App / Cloud Query Hosted Search API and more.

Xoopit is an email organizational tool that enables users to retrieve meaningful content from their archived email.

Raised $6,500,000.00 from Accel and Foundation Capital.

  • Lead Designer

    2002 - 2008

    ESI Group (www.esi-group.com) is a world leading provider of digital simulation prototypes and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials. ESI Group products allow engineers to explore design and process alternatives without building physical prototypes.

  • Co-founder

    1999 - 2001

    Justarrive (www.justarrive.com) is an electronic ticketing and marketing company that provides a ticketless entry platform for sports and entertainment venues. The platform enables clients to distribute and manage their tickets via the Internet and proprietary hardware that is connected to backend software. In a single platform, Justarrive delivers complete venue and patron management, data collection and advanced ticketing applications. Justarrive secured more than a dozen clients in the NCAA and U.S. professional leagues.

  • Hardware Design Intern

    1998 - 1998

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