Jacob Bernstein

General Partner at Highland Europe

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
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Board Member
Apr 2026
Unframe is the Managed AI Delivery Platform that turns enterprise needs and use cases into fully tailored, production-ready AI solutions in days. Powered by Unframes deep technical building blocks and its open platform, The Framery, every solution integrates seamlessly with each customers existing AI program and core systems — scoping, designing, and delivering against the companys data, workflows, and governance frameworks. Solutions run in the customers cloud, on-premises, or as fully managed SaaS, with no dependency on a specific LLM. Unframe helps enterprises eliminate operational bottlenecks and capture the business value of AI, from targeted use cases to complete AI transformation. Co-founded in 2024 by Shay Levi, Larissa Schneider, and Adi Azarya, Unframe is headquartered in Cupertino, California, with offices in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Visit unframe.ai.
Board Member
May 2025
Zero Networks is a pioneer in automated microsegmentation and network security. Our agentless microsegmentation solutions provide effortless deployment, automatically learning and classifying endpoints to generate precise security policies that orchestrate native firewalls. By preventing unauthorized lateral movement, enforcing just-in-time multi-factor authentication for privileged access, and enhancing protection for critical assets, we empower organizations across every sector to strengthen their cyber resilience with minimal effort.
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Feb 2025
n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation. The platform enables connection to any app or API while maintaining the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code. Released under a fair-code license, n8n can be self-hosted and is supported by a vibrant community of developers and builders. Users can start simple and layer complexity as needed - utilizing the visual builder for quick wins, and adding custom Javascript or Python code where more control is required, enabling the connection of anything to everything. n8n is privately held, with funding from Sequoia, Felicis Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Harpoon Ventures, and others. Individual investors include Eventbrites Kevin Hartz and Supercells IIkka Paananen. n8n was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin.
Board Observer
Jan 2025
Weve built Fundment to propel financial advice businesses through technology. Our simple account opening, transfers, investment management, digital drawdown, and custom indexing – to name a few – are taking portfolio management to a new level. We are the high-tech bridge between an advisers expertise and their clients financial goals, turning advice into action quickly, accurately and securely. Today, we support tens of thousands of advised investors, thousands of advisers, and hundreds of advisory businesses across the UK.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
Founded in 2019 to address the insurability of risks worsened by climate change, Descartes’ mission is to help companies and communities build resilience in a world at risk. Descartes is a global corporate insurance specialist working exclusively with brokers to protect their corporate and public sector clients against climate, cyber and other emerging risks. At the forefront of AI and data analysis, Descartes utilizes cutting-edge technology combined with data from world-class research institutions to model, assess and manage risks. Descartes boasts the largest team of scientists in the global insurance industry, comprising over 150 experts in meteorology, climatology, physics, data science, software engineering, DevOps, modeling, and underwriting. This diverse expertise enables us to develop transparent, tailored solutions to the challenges posed by emerging risks, and offer a range of innovative and cost-effective insurance products designed to meet clients’ needs—often through cutting-edge parametric structures. With a global footprint and a strong foothold in the U.S., Descartes serves a diverse client base across 60+ countries, operating from 20+ offices in Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North America. Through corporate brokers, Descartes has already delivered over $15 billion in capacity to its clients. The insurer is recognized for its technical excellence and achieved a +71 NPS score in 2025. The Descartes group includes Descartes Insurance, a full-stack insurer operating in several European markets, and Descartes Underwriting, a global MGA backed by a panel of tier-one risk carriers. The company has secured over $141M in funding from prominent investors, including Highland Europe, BlackFin, Serena, Cathay, Eurazeo, and Battery Ventures.
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Board Observer
Dec 2021
Red Sift enables organizations to anticipate, respond to, and recover from cyber attacks while continuing to operate effectively. The award-winning Red Sift application suite is the only integrated solution that combines four interoperable applications, internet-scale cybersecurity intelligence, and innovative generative AI that puts organizations on a robust path to cyber resilience. Red Sift is a global organization with offices in North America, Australia, Spain, and the UK. It boasts a global client base across all industries, including Domino’s, ZoomInfo, Athletic Greens, Pipedrive, and top global law firms. Red Sift is also a trusted partner of Entrust, Microsoft, Cisco and Validity, among others. Learn more at redsift.com. The Red Sift Pulse Platform A Digital Resilience Platform built for an evolving attack surface. Applications loved and trusted by 1,000+ organizations to protect your infrastructure, domains and email are brought together, sharing insights and learning. OnDMARC Award-winning, cloud-based DMARC, DKIM and SPF configuration and management. Certificates Continuous certificate discovery and monitoring. Brand Trust AI-driven brand impersonation discovery and monitoring. ASM ​​Automated, continuous attack surface management.
Board Observer
Aug 2020
Cobalt is the pioneer in pentesting as a service and a leader in offensive security services. We are focused on combining talent and technology with speed, scalability, and expertise. Thousands of customers and hundreds of partners rely on the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, along with 500+ trusted pentesters, to find and fix vulnerabilities across their environments. By enabling faster pentest launches, real-time collaboration with pentesters, and seamless integration with remediation workflows, we help organizations identify critical issues and accelerate risk mitigation so they can operate fearlessly and innovate securely.
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Aug 2018
Spot, now a part of Flexera, is changing the way that companies run in the cloud. Our product suite uses innovative machine learning and analytics to automate and optimize cloud infrastructure, ensure that workloads and applications always have the best possible infrastructure--always available, always scalable and always at the lowest possible cost. Spot’s technology provides insights into cloud costs, recommendations for how to optimize utilization and costs, and automation to implement those recommendations in just a few clicks. Ideal for autoscaling applications, containers, Kubernetes and more, our products With over 1,500 customers, from startups to global enterprises, the results speak for themselves: up to 90% lower cloud compute costs, with fully automated scaling and infrastructure management and SLA-based availability. Proven products, outstanding customer satisfaction and a world-class team--that combination makes us the right Spot for companies and individuals looking to get the most out of the cloud.
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May 2018
Incopro – a Corsearch company – is an online IP and brand protection software provider that arms brand owners with actionable intelligence to combat online and offline intellectual property and copyright infringements. Its flagship product, Talisman, combines big data and machine learning technology with legal and law enforcement expertise to gather and analyze relevant data for its customers. Incopro has offices in the UK, USA & China. Over 750 brands currently use its software, including Mondelēz International, Reckitt, Unilever, Superdry, New Era, Brother, Adobe and Ted Baker.
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2026
Board Member
Apr 2026
Unframe is the Managed AI Delivery Platform that turns enterprise needs and use cases into fully tailored, production-ready AI solutions in days. Powered by Unframes deep technical building blocks and its open platform, The Framery, every solution integrates seamlessly with each customers existing AI program and core systems — scoping, designing, and delivering against the companys data, workflows, and governance frameworks. Solutions run in the customers cloud, on-premises, or as fully managed SaaS, with no dependency on a specific LLM. Unframe helps enterprises eliminate operational bottlenecks and capture the business value of AI, from targeted use cases to complete AI transformation. Co-founded in 2024 by Shay Levi, Larissa Schneider, and Adi Azarya, Unframe is headquartered in Cupertino, California, with offices in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Visit unframe.ai.
2025
Board Member
May 2025
Zero Networks is a pioneer in automated microsegmentation and network security. Our agentless microsegmentation solutions provide effortless deployment, automatically learning and classifying endpoints to generate precise security policies that orchestrate native firewalls. By preventing unauthorized lateral movement, enforcing just-in-time multi-factor authentication for privileged access, and enhancing protection for critical assets, we empower organizations across every sector to strengthen their cyber resilience with minimal effort.
Investor
Feb 2025
n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation. The platform enables connection to any app or API while maintaining the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code. Released under a fair-code license, n8n can be self-hosted and is supported by a vibrant community of developers and builders. Users can start simple and layer complexity as needed - utilizing the visual builder for quick wins, and adding custom Javascript or Python code where more control is required, enabling the connection of anything to everything. n8n is privately held, with funding from Sequoia, Felicis Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Harpoon Ventures, and others. Individual investors include Eventbrites Kevin Hartz and Supercells IIkka Paananen. n8n was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin.
Board Observer
Jan 2025
Weve built Fundment to propel financial advice businesses through technology. Our simple account opening, transfers, investment management, digital drawdown, and custom indexing – to name a few – are taking portfolio management to a new level. We are the high-tech bridge between an advisers expertise and their clients financial goals, turning advice into action quickly, accurately and securely. Today, we support tens of thousands of advised investors, thousands of advisers, and hundreds of advisory businesses across the UK.
2023
Board Member
Jul 2023
Oritain is a global leader in forensically verifying the origin of products and raw materials. Our proprietary methodology uses cutting edge science, advanced technology and specialized services to help brands, suppliers and regulators achieve unmatched transparency and trust in global supply chains
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