Jacob Smith

Partner | VC | Early-stage Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
VC🌍 United StatesInvested this year
10
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5
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2
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Lead Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2025
CancerNavigator is a premium education and navigation service for cancer patients and their families. The service provides end-to-end cancer support, including helping patients understand their diagnosis, access high-quality care for their specific diagnosis, and work through the many other challenges a cancer diagnosis brings. The company exists to support cancer patients in their hour of need.
Lead Investor
Apr 2025
Delineate extracts meaningful data from research literature and patents to power analysis in the biopharma space. We offer bespoke AI Services to rapidly find relevant research and structure it into fit-for-purpose datasets.
Lead Investor
Nov 2024
Next Generation Deduction Management Software. Analyze, reconcile, and dispute all of your trade and non trade deductions in one place.
Lead Investor
Aug 2024
BluePond.AI, brainchild of industry experts, is built to tackle challenges faced by P&C Insurance businesses— rising costs, talent shortages, and operational headaches. We streamline and simplify complex processes, improve decision quality, giving back time for you to focus on your people, clients and profits. Our Commitment: Invent and Simplify At BluePond.AI, were all about constant innovation and keeping things simple. We understand the nitty-gritty of the insurance world and are committed to continually refining and simplifying processes, giving you the freedom to serve your customers better. Our Platform - BluePond CoPilot BluePond CoPilot is our end-to-end Gen-AI platform (a central engine) that takes away tedious work from your hands by automating your processes, analyzing complex documents, and generating market insights. This enables you to concentrate on serving your clients and making it a more resilient world. BrokerCoPilot A part of BluePond CoPilot platform, BrokerCoPilot helps brokers navigate the challenges of high operating costs and manual-intensive tasks. Broker CoPilot goes beyond the mundane, automating quote comparisons and policy checks while offering rich, guided placement insights. Join us in shaping a simplified future for the insurance industry. #BluePondAI #InsuranceInnovation #GenAI #InsurtechSolutions
Investor & Board Observer
Jun 2024
Olli Health is the leading AI-powered home health coding and OASIS/Plan of Care quality review manage service with 98% accuracy and 4x faster turnaround times at half the cost of legacy vendors.
Investor
Sep 2022
Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. By harnessing the potential of self-supervised learning and human multimodal data, Noetik aims to discover better precision immunotherapies.
Investor
Dec 2021
At Arbor, we’re sustainably powering the present while erasing emissions of the past. Our innovative system transforms organic waste into clean, reliable electricity while capturing carbon dioxide at scale. Founded by space tech veterans who pivoted from building technology to explore new planets to protecting our own, Arbor leverages cutting-edge aerospace technology to tackle climate change. Our mission is to bring gigawatts of clean, dependable baseload power online while removing gigatons of legacy carbon emissions. Earth is the most important spaceship we’ll ever have, and we’re dedicated to restoring its balance. Drawing on our team’s deep aerospace expertise, we’ve created a power system that meets today’s demands while repairing yesterday’s damage. Arbor’s engine, fueled by organic waste, improves on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) using advancements in oxy-combustion, supercritical turbomachinery, and additive manufacturing. The system turns waste—like overgrown brush, crop residues, and food waste—into clean power, reducing wildfire risks and landfill emissions. The captured CO2 is permanently stored deep underground, where it mineralizes into rock, ensuring it never returns to the atmosphere. At Arbor, we envision a future where human progress and environmental stewardship work in harmony to power our world and bring the planet into balance. We’re proudly backed by climate-focused investors including Gigascale Capital, Voyager Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, and Cantos Ventures.
Board Member (Acquired by Medical Solutions)
Jan 2021
We believe the system works better when healthcare facilities looking for staff can connect directly with qualified W-2 workers interested in local contract and per diem shifts. Our unexpected approach brings messaging and matching transparency to clinicians and organizations alike – freeing you to do what matters most, caring for patients. If you agree, let's do great work, together.
Board Observer
Nov 2020
uMed combines RWE with the power of patient generated data to address the evidence gaps in life science research. By leveraging uMed’s ACCESS Research Platform which is embedded across a global network of healthcare institutions, researchers can rapidly access and engage with patients to generate insights derived from the decentralised collection of electronic health records, clinical outcomes, patient-reported data and biosamples.
Board Observer
Dec 2018
Pops offers a consumer-centric solution for self-management of diabetes. Pops is centered around a personalized app-based AI virtual coach that is paired with an easy to use, discreet, smart-glucose meter. This provides people a better diabetes management alternative to support successful measuring and monitoring of blood sugar while living an active life. Our virtual coach, Mina, engages with our own Rebel glucose meter, simplifying the user’s ability to better manage and direct their health and clinical care needs, increasing accountability toward true behavior change. Pops supports the whole person with sensitivity, meaningful education, and guidance. Pops broadens connectivity and data sharing with loved ones and providers. With streamlined connectivity, trend reports, and feedback from Mina interactions, Pops consumes fewer Provider resources while enhancing clinical engagement and follow up care. Delivering improved outcomes and supporting healthy lifestyles, we provide an innovative cost-saving solution for employees and their dependents, health plan members, and the healthcare ecosystem.
Experience · 15 entries
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Investments (10)
Board (5)
2025
Lead Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2025
CancerNavigator is a premium education and navigation service for cancer patients and their families. The service provides end-to-end cancer support, including helping patients understand their diagnosis, access high-quality care for their specific diagnosis, and work through the many other challenges a cancer diagnosis brings. The company exists to support cancer patients in their hour of need.
Lead Investor
Apr 2025
Delineate extracts meaningful data from research literature and patents to power analysis in the biopharma space. We offer bespoke AI Services to rapidly find relevant research and structure it into fit-for-purpose datasets.
2024
Lead Investor
Nov 2024
Next Generation Deduction Management Software. Analyze, reconcile, and dispute all of your trade and non trade deductions in one place.
Lead Investor
Aug 2024
BluePond.AI, brainchild of industry experts, is built to tackle challenges faced by P&C Insurance businesses— rising costs, talent shortages, and operational headaches. We streamline and simplify complex processes, improve decision quality, giving back time for you to focus on your people, clients and profits. Our Commitment: Invent and Simplify At BluePond.AI, were all about constant innovation and keeping things simple. We understand the nitty-gritty of the insurance world and are committed to continually refining and simplifying processes, giving you the freedom to serve your customers better. Our Platform - BluePond CoPilot BluePond CoPilot is our end-to-end Gen-AI platform (a central engine) that takes away tedious work from your hands by automating your processes, analyzing complex documents, and generating market insights. This enables you to concentrate on serving your clients and making it a more resilient world. BrokerCoPilot A part of BluePond CoPilot platform, BrokerCoPilot helps brokers navigate the challenges of high operating costs and manual-intensive tasks. Broker CoPilot goes beyond the mundane, automating quote comparisons and policy checks while offering rich, guided placement insights. Join us in shaping a simplified future for the insurance industry. #BluePondAI #InsuranceInnovation #GenAI #InsurtechSolutions
Partner
Jun 2024
We back early-stage companies in AI / Data, Cybersecurity, and Data-Driven Health, helping founders build the most enduring companies of tomorrow. Cannage (Kah-naaj) / Noun. Cannage refers to a weaving technique, as breakthrough ideas come from the intersection of different disciplines. Our team has previously backed breakout interdisciplinary companies including Cruise Automation, Covariant, Human, Forter, JupiterOne, Sardine, Ginkgo Bioworks, and Hinge Health.
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