Jesse R. Leiter

VP of Capital Strategy & IR at Ayar Labs

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2023
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Nov 2023
Raive is a Foundation AI company for people to create, exchange, and access information like never before. We are building the future infrastructure of the information economy, where AI is both a new medium of expression, and a new asset class with clear IP rights and AI royalties. Our multimedia foundation AI models are pushing the frontier of image and video generation, enabling large-scale personalization, composition, and attribution, so that everyone can create, own, and distribute their personalized AI models.
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Jan 2021
Rescale’s cloud platform for modeling & simulation and applied AI accelerates product development and discovery for any organization. Enterprises use Rescale’s compute, data, and AI solutions to accelerate discovery and engineering breakthroughs. Rescale has been recognized globally as the industry leading platform providing cutting edge AI solutions, the broadest selection of over 1,000 R&D software applications, and the largest global infrastructure footprint of 100s of advanced computing architectures. Leveraged by a majority of Fortune 500 companies to accelerate time to market, Rescale has been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor for Cloud Infrastructure, by Deloitte as a Technology Fast 500 company, and by the World Economic Forum as a Global Innovator Unicorn. We are located in San Francisco and work with users in the aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences, construction, marine, consumer products, and manufacturing industries. For more info sales@rescale.com
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Jun 2019
Our companys name embodies our vision, a billion people making choices that are better for everyone. Weve helped over 16 million people in 100+ countries discover community and impact through vegan food, sustainable products and a community of people championing ethical living. Weve launched the worlds first P2P marketplace for ethically made products, and were helping more than 1.3 million businesses globally adopt more sustainable practices. Our team is a reflection of our community – abillion users dedicated to growing the movement. Were unapologetic about our work ethic, because our mission is to create a world thats seemingly impossible but incredibly beautiful if we bring it to life.
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Jun 2015
HEAVY.AI provides advanced analytics that empower businesses and the government to visualize high-value opportunities and risks hidden in their big location and time data. Leading organizations in government, telecommunications, energy, utilities, and higher education use HEAVY.AI to support high-impact decision-making in previously unimaginable timelines by harnessing the massive parallelism of modern GPU and CPU hardware. This analytics capability unifies today’s exploding data volumes from multiple sources for a better immersive and real-time, interactive visual experience. It can be deployed in the cloud and on-premise. HEAVY.AI originated from research at Harvard and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). HEAVY.AI is funded by GV, In-Q-Tel, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more about HEAVY.AI at heavy.ai.
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2024
VP, Head of Capital Strategy and Investor Relations
Apr 2024
Ayar Labs is transforming AI infrastructure by accelerating data movement. Recognizing that the complexity and size of AI models are increasing at a rate that traditional interconnect technology cannot handle, the company has developed the industry’s first co-packaged optics (CPO) solution that enables customers to maximize the compute efficiency and performance of growing AI infrastructure, while reducing costs, latency and power consumption. Based on open standards and optimized for both AI training and inference, Ayar Labs’ optical I/O solution is backed by a robust ecosystem that enables it to integrate smoothly into AI systems at scale.
2023
Investor
Nov 2023
Raive is a Foundation AI company for people to create, exchange, and access information like never before. We are building the future infrastructure of the information economy, where AI is both a new medium of expression, and a new asset class with clear IP rights and AI royalties. Our multimedia foundation AI models are pushing the frontier of image and video generation, enabling large-scale personalization, composition, and attribution, so that everyone can create, own, and distribute their personalized AI models.
2022
Managing Director
Sep 2022
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies and governments. More about our company can be found at www.jefferies.com.
2021
Investor
Jan 2021
Rescale’s cloud platform for modeling & simulation and applied AI accelerates product development and discovery for any organization. Enterprises use Rescale’s compute, data, and AI solutions to accelerate discovery and engineering breakthroughs. Rescale has been recognized globally as the industry leading platform providing cutting edge AI solutions, the broadest selection of over 1,000 R&D software applications, and the largest global infrastructure footprint of 100s of advanced computing architectures. Leveraged by a majority of Fortune 500 companies to accelerate time to market, Rescale has been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor for Cloud Infrastructure, by Deloitte as a Technology Fast 500 company, and by the World Economic Forum as a Global Innovator Unicorn. We are located in San Francisco and work with users in the aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences, construction, marine, consumer products, and manufacturing industries. For more info sales@rescale.com
2019
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Jun 2019
Our companys name embodies our vision, a billion people making choices that are better for everyone. Weve helped over 16 million people in 100+ countries discover community and impact through vegan food, sustainable products and a community of people championing ethical living. Weve launched the worlds first P2P marketplace for ethically made products, and were helping more than 1.3 million businesses globally adopt more sustainable practices. Our team is a reflection of our community – abillion users dedicated to growing the movement. Were unapologetic about our work ethic, because our mission is to create a world thats seemingly impossible but incredibly beautiful if we bring it to life.
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