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Differentiating from Competition in your Fundraise with Lee Jacobs: A Simple Way Set Yourself Up…
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Lee Jacobs
Founding General Partner at Long Journey Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Lee Jacobs is the Founding General Partner at Long Journey Ventures, with a notable track record of early backing successful startups like Loom and Together.AI. Based in San Francisco, Lee specializes in marketing strategy, business development, and venture capital investments across various sectors, including hardware, consumer internet, and SaaS.
Lee's career highlights include founding Long Journey Ventures and being an early investor in Loom, Together.AI, and other successful startups, demonstrating a strong ability to identify and support promising ventures in the tech industry. His expertise in marketing strategy, business development, and venture capital have contributed to his success as a key player in the San Francisco startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
Investor
2022 - Current
Founder and General Partner
2018
Long Journey Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on early and new investments.
Advisor
2013
Helping out the greatest platform for startups in the world. - I was the first (after Naval) to complete a syndicate investment on the platform. We brought in great investors like Eric Reis, David Sacks, and others...
Partner
2015 - 2018
Growing the largest platform for startups in the world. This includes: * Increasing the number and quality of investments and investors on the platform. * Advising the AngelList Affiliated Platform funds-- including Maiden Lane and $400M CSC Upshot. * Building Products that help grow the business and make investors successful.
AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
Investor
2016
Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos.
Raised $203,550,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst and Sequoia Capital.
Investor
2018
Crusoe Energy Systems provides solutions for the energy industry helping them to reduce routine flaring of natural gas.
Raised $1,247,500,000.00 from Founders Fund and Felicis.
Investor
2018
Mindbloom helps to achieve personal and clinical breakthroughs with at-home, clinician-prescribed psychedelic therapies.
Investor
2018
Modern Animal is an innovative veterinary platform building a new kind of veterinary experience for animals and humans.
Raised $164,000,000.00 from D1 Capital Partners, Upfront Ventures, Founders Fund, Addition and True Ventures.
Founder and Managing Partner
2015
Edelweiss is a group of Angels focused on helping companies succeed. We have backed great companies like Blue Bottle, Wonderschool, Grove Collaborative, Pipefy, Kettle and Fire, Common Networks, and Loom. See full list here: https://angel.co/edelweiss/syndicate
I go to board meetings
2018
Pipefy is a no-code process orchestration platform to easily automate workflows and manage business processes.
Raised $122,737,500.00 from SOFTBANK Latin America Ventures, Redpoint eventures, Insight Partners, 500 Global, Bossa Invest, Steadfast Capital Management and Long Journey Ventures.
Investor
2016
Early supporter of the company.
Kettle & Fire is a bone broth company that combines marrow bones with premium organic vegetables and filtered water in steel kettles.
Raised $8,000,000.00 from Rocana Venture Partners, Hedgewood, CAVU Consumer Partners and Plus Capital.
Education
Investments
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