Aaron Jacobson

Partner at NEA

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 11 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor
Sep 2025
Factory is an AI research lab, bringing autonomy to software engineering with Droids.
Board Observer
May 2025
Horizon3.ai answers the two most important questions in cybersecurity: If someone tried to compromise us, would we hold up? And, how do we withstand the onslaught of AI-powered attacks? Horizon3.ai’s NodeZero® shifts the advantage from attackers to defenders by giving organizations the power to fight AI with AI. The Proactive Security Platform autonomously tests your defenses at machine speed, safely finds and prioritizes exploitable attack paths, instantly verifies fixes, and drives a continuous loop so you can prove you’re resilient, not just hope you are. NodeZero, the World’s Best AI Hacker™, was built by an elite team of U.S. cyber veterans and has honed its skills over 225K production-safe tests, more than all manual pentests in history. More than 5,000 organizations including the NSA, CISA, Fortune 100 giants, and major healthcare providers trust Horizon3.ai to prioritize what matters and prove they’re ready for what’s next. Horizon3.ai has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2026. The company ranked #3 overall on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and was named the #1 cybersecurity company on the Inc. 5000 in 2025. It has also been named to the Fortune Cyber 60 in both 2023 and 2025 and is a two-time Black Unicorn Award winner.
Investor
Nov 2023
Were a team of researchers whove left the big labs to focus on understanding machine intelligence. Weve worked on Google DeepMinds early scientific initiatives, developed Anthropics interpretability efforts, and commercialized superintelligence at Meta.
Board Member
Nov 2020
DeltaStream provides a unified serverless platform to manage, secure and process all your streams. Build real-time streaming applications and pipelines with SQL in minutes. Organize and secure your streams the same way as your relational databases.
Board Observer
Sep 2017
Built Robotics’ mission is to build the robots that build the world. By automating repetitive tasks in the $300 billion solar industry, Built is bridging the workforce gap to accelerate our transition to clean energy.
Board Observer
Aug 2017
Juvo was founded with an overarching mission: to empower the billions of unbanked people around the world to create financial identities and access financial services - all through their everyday interactions with their mobile phone. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-based relationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Since emerging from stealth in September 2016, Juvo has increased its global reach more than five times over, from 100 million to over 500 million, and has steadily grown its operations and employee base worldwide with 55 employees today. To date, Juvo has enabled over 250M transactions in 25 countries and 4 continents, with 1M active users per day. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Juvo just completed a US$40 million Series B funding round with funding from by top-tier VCs including NEA, Wing Venture, and Freestyle Capital. Early investors in the company, including the former CEOs of AT&T Wireless, NYSE, Sprint, Telefonica International and Vodafone Group, have each taken part in the latest B round. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields.
Board Observer
Sep 2015
On July 1, 2024, IBM acquired StreamSets, a real-time data integration company specializing in streaming structured, unstructured and semistructured data across hybrid multicloud environments. Acquired from Software AG along with webMethods, this strategic acquisition expands IBM’s already robust data integration capabilities, helping to solidify our position as a leader in the data integration market and enhancing IBM Data Fabric’s delivery of secure, high-quality data for artificial intelligence (AI). Existing StreamSets clients continue to receive the same high level of support and service they have come to expect. Moreover, this acquisition brings increased investment to extend connectivity and CDC support, integrate with data lineage and data observability, and focus on end-to-end data pipeline orchestration.
Board Observer
Oct 2014
Topia provides technology solutions to manage all forms of employee movement and work location flexibility effectively, at scale and with a firm focus on compliance. Topia’s platform is being used by some of the world’s largest and most prestigious companies, including two of the world’s biggest firms in the energy and food services sectors, one of the best-known international retail brands and industry leaders in the semiconductor, telecoms & engineering/design sectors. Today’s employees are working in a more diverse range of locations than ever before. Whether it’s due to business trips, international and domestic assignments, permanent transfers or remote working practices, the workforce has never been more geographically dispersed. Managing a distributed workforce effectively is critical and companies have to be able to move people to where they’re most needed quickly, cost-effectively and in compliance with all relevant regulations. Topia is used to support businesses before, during and after their people move or travel to wherever they need to be and helps companies ensure the right people are in the right place at the right time.
Investor
Jun 2014
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
Board Observer
Oct 2013
NGINX, now part of F5, improves the performance, reliability, and security of websites and applications.
Board Observer
Apr 2013
Mimosa Networks is the global technology leader in wireless broadband solutions, delivering fiber-fast connectivity to service providers and enterprise, industrial and government operators worldwide. Mimosa access, backhaul, and client solutions are deployed in a hybrid-fiber-wireless architecture, and engineered for both Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint connections, across a variety of diverse applications including residential and business high-speed internet access, surveillance, agribusiness, education and hospitality networking. Mimosa's technology delivers unprecedented levels of cost-effective spectral efficiency, allowing scarce spectrum to be concurrently and reliably shared across networks. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, Mimosa is sold worldwide by members of Mimosa's partner program. For more information, visit www.mimosa.co. Twitter: @GoMimosa Facebook: facebook.com/mimosanetworks
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2025
Investor
Sep 2025
Factory is an AI research lab, bringing autonomy to software engineering with Droids.
Board Observer
May 2025
Horizon3.ai answers the two most important questions in cybersecurity: If someone tried to compromise us, would we hold up? And, how do we withstand the onslaught of AI-powered attacks? Horizon3.ai’s NodeZero® shifts the advantage from attackers to defenders by giving organizations the power to fight AI with AI. The Proactive Security Platform autonomously tests your defenses at machine speed, safely finds and prioritizes exploitable attack paths, instantly verifies fixes, and drives a continuous loop so you can prove you’re resilient, not just hope you are. NodeZero, the World’s Best AI Hacker™, was built by an elite team of U.S. cyber veterans and has honed its skills over 225K production-safe tests, more than all manual pentests in history. More than 5,000 organizations including the NSA, CISA, Fortune 100 giants, and major healthcare providers trust Horizon3.ai to prioritize what matters and prove they’re ready for what’s next. Horizon3.ai has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2026. The company ranked #3 overall on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and was named the #1 cybersecurity company on the Inc. 5000 in 2025. It has also been named to the Fortune Cyber 60 in both 2023 and 2025 and is a two-time Black Unicorn Award winner.
2023
Investor
Nov 2023
Were a team of researchers whove left the big labs to focus on understanding machine intelligence. Weve worked on Google DeepMinds early scientific initiatives, developed Anthropics interpretability efforts, and commercialized superintelligence at Meta.
2020
Board Member
Nov 2020
DeltaStream provides a unified serverless platform to manage, secure and process all your streams. Build real-time streaming applications and pipelines with SQL in minutes. Organize and secure your streams the same way as your relational databases.
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Jun 2020
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