Jake Jolis

inception stage vc & former founder

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
10
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7
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2
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0
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Lead seed investor
Sep 2023
Salient is a financial technology company, founded in 2023, based in sf, ca. were implementing bleeding edge AI, in partnership with the largest lenders in the united states. we code in python. were also hiring - if youre interested in learning more, please reach out to founders at trysalient dot com. investors: matrix partners, y combinator, general catalyst
Lead seed investor
2023
Make your database accessible to your team
Lead seed investor
2022
Sieve enables software developers to process and understand video without any AI or infra expertise. We’re like a database that can index video, for any application at any scale.
Lead seed investor
2022
Fini helps companies turn their knowledge base into AI chatbot in 2 minutes using Generative AI. Backed by Ycombinator and Matrix. www.usefini.com
Lead seed investor
Mar 2021
Emerge Tools is a suite of revolutionary products designed to supercharge mobile apps and the teams that build them
Lead seed investor & Board Member
Sep 2020
We built Steadily to serve landlords who want their insurance to work like other modern tools they love: fast and affordable with excellent service. Were headquartered in Austin, Texas where we combine our decades of insurance experience with strong tech and design to delight our customers.
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Board Member
May 2020
Educative provides interactive courses for software developers. We are changing how developers continue their education and stay relevant by providing pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. For instructors, Educative provides the best authoring platform for creating interactive content with just a few clicks. Join 1.5 Million developers working at top organizations like Amazon, Netflix, Google, and Stripe. Try Educative’s FREE Trial, which gives you unlimited access to nearly 500 interactive, world-class courses spanning JavaScript and Front-End Development, to System Design and Machine Learning. Join our Newsletter here: https://grokkingtechcareer.substack.com.
Board Member
Dec 2019
Dray Alliance is digitizing the container trucking industry by creating a simple and predictable platform for containerized cargo. We are the most reliable, transparent, and technology-enabled provider of container trucking for shippers.
Board Member
May 2019
Smartcat is the essential language AI platform for any global enterprise Our client-tailored language AI turns content in any format into any language, from documents to videos to complex websites and software, making global operations simple for any corporate team. It also allows any user to create new content by tapping into a multilingual enterprise library. Teams get instant results at a fraction of the cost, and with significantly higher quality. And Smartcats adaptive AI remembers every update made by any team member so you never have to make the same edits twice. The editing process can be scaled up in no time by accessing the largest embedded marketplace of linguists and editors, all AI-automated. More than 1,000 global companies including the Fortune 500 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world. Smartcat is a Training Industry 2024 Top AI in Training Companies winner.
Lead seed investor
Mar 2019
Keeper is delightfully smart tax filing software that’s especially useful for people with 1099 contracting & freelance income. Connect your bank to automatically uncover tax breaks & personalize.
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2023
Lead seed investor
Sep 2023
Salient is a financial technology company, founded in 2023, based in sf, ca. were implementing bleeding edge AI, in partnership with the largest lenders in the united states. we code in python. were also hiring - if youre interested in learning more, please reach out to founders at trysalient dot com. investors: matrix partners, y combinator, general catalyst
Lead seed investor
2023
Make your database accessible to your team
2022
Lead seed investor
2022
Sieve enables software developers to process and understand video without any AI or infra expertise. We’re like a database that can index video, for any application at any scale.
Lead seed investor
2022
Fini helps companies turn their knowledge base into AI chatbot in 2 minutes using Generative AI. Backed by Ycombinator and Matrix. www.usefini.com
2021
Lead seed investor
Mar 2021
Emerge Tools is a suite of revolutionary products designed to supercharge mobile apps and the teams that build them
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