Jim Jones

Managing Director at HighGear Ventures

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 36 investments📅 24 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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2025
Placer.ai is the most advanced location analytics platform allowing anyone with a stake in the physical world to instantly generate insights into any property for a deeper understanding of the factors that drive success. Placer.ai is the first platform that fully empowers professionals in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, economic development, and more to truly understand and maximize their offline activities.
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2024
Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Take a look at https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.
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2024
Viz.ai is the leader in building and deploying AI-powered Care Pathways and helping doctors do their work. The Viz Platform is deployed in 2,000 hospitals across the United States and trusted by many of the leading life sciences companies. The platform uniquely combines real-time, multimodal clinical data with deep clinician engagement to detect disease earlier, coordinate care teams, and help ensure patients receive the right treatment faster. Viz.ai was the first company to be awarded CMS reimbursement for AI and is ranked the #1 Healthcare AI Platform by hospitals and health systems in the Black Book Research survey. For more information, visit Viz.ai.
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2023
Every year new technologies, vendors, and solutions emerge—yet despite this constant innovation, high-profile breaches are all over the headlines. In response, organizations have scrambled to develop a better security posture, but the dizzying array of options leaves resource-constrained IT and security leaders wondering how to proceed. Enter Arctic Wolf, the market leader in Security Operations. Using the cloud-native Arctic Wolf Aurora Platform, we help organizations end cyber risk by providing security operations as a concierge service. Arctic Wolf solutions include Arctic Wolf® Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Managed Risk, Managed Security Awareness, and Incident Response; each delivered by our Concierge Delivery Model. Highly-trained security experts work as an extension of internal teams to provide 24×7 monitoring, detection and response, as well as ongoing risk management to proactively protect organizations while continually strengthening their security posture.
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2022
Symphony is an AI-powered communication and technology company fueled by interconnected platforms: Messaging, Voice, Directory and Analytics. Our modular technology - built for global finance - enables over 1,000 institutions to prioritize data security, navigate complex regulatory compliance and optimize business interactions. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in New York City with 10 additional offices across the globe. Find out more at symphony.com
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2022
Fin is the Customer Agent company delivering perfect customer experiences – from support to sales to commerce. 30,000+ companies use our products. Fin resolves over 2 million conversations weekly, is doubling growth year on year, and has surpassed $400M in annual recurring revenue. Founded as Intercom in 2011, we revolutionized modern customer communication. When it became clear AI would fundamentally reshape the industry, we reinvented the company – rebuilding our product, infrastructure, and team around AI. Still founder-led, were one of the largest and fastest-growing private software companies in the world, with more than 1,400 people across six global offices.
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2021
Domino powers model-driven business for the world’s most advanced enterprises, including over 20% of the Fortune 100. Our Enterprise MLOps platform speeds up the development and deployment of data science work while increasing collaboration and governance, to scale data science into a competitive advantage. Our platform enables thousands of data scientists to develop better medicines, grow more productive crops, adapt risk models to major economic shifts, build better cars, improve customer support, or simply recommend the best purchase to make at the right time. Domino is backed by leading venture capital firms: Sequoia Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Coatue Management, Dell Technologies Capital, Highland Capital Partners, In-Q-Tel, and Zetta Venture Partners.
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2021
Netskope, a leader in modern security and networking, addresses the needs of both security and networking teams by providing optimized access and real-time, context-based security for people, devices, and data anywhere they go. Thousands of customers, including more than 30 of the Fortune 100, trust the Netskope One platform, its Zero Trust Engine, and its powerful NewEdge network to reduce risk and gain full visibility and control over cloud, AI, SaaS, web, and private applications—providing security and accelerating performance without trade-offs.
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2021
Tealium helps companies collect, govern, and enrich their customer data in real-time to power AI initiatives and delight customers in the moments that matter. Tealium’s turnkey integration ecosystem supports more than 1,300 built-in connections from the world’s most prominent technology experts. Tealium’s solutions include a real-time customer data platform (CDP) with intelligent AI data streaming, tag management, and an API hub. Tealium’s data collection, management, and activation capabilities enable enterprises to accelerate operating performance, enhance customer experiences, drive better outcomes, and support global data compliance. Named as a Leader in the 2024 & 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Platforms™, more than 850 leading businesses globally trust Tealium to power their customer data strategies.
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2021
mParticle, an end-to-end customer data platform (CDP), turns customer data into customer joy by seamlessly orchestrating the entirety of the customer data stack in real time. mParticle’s powerfully-configurable platform combines data activation, security, and AI predictions to help global brands like HBO Max, Marks & Spencer, JetBlue, and SoFi quickly and confidently use data to make decisions. mParticle has raised nearly $300M in funding. Founded in 2013, mParticle is headquartered in New York City with employees around the globe.
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2020
Exabeam is a leader in intelligence and automation that powers security operations for the world’s smartest companies. As a global cybersecurity innovator, Exabeam provides industry-proven, security-focused, and flexible solutions for faster, more accurate threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). Cutting-edge technology enhances security operations center performance, optimizing workflows and accelerating time to resolution. With consistent leadership in AI innovation and a proven track record in security information and event management (SIEM) and user behavior analytics, Exabeam empowers global security teams to combat cyberthreats, mitigate risk, and streamline operations. Learn more at www.exabeam.com.
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2020
ThoughtSpot is the Agentic Analytics Platform for every enterprise. Our mission is to create a more fact-driven world by empowering everyone to explore any data, ask any question, and uncover actionable insights faster—leading to growth, better business outcomes, and efficiency in their organizations: www.thoughtspot.com With ThoughtSpot’s intuitive natural language search, every user can confidently generate answers from their business data at every point of decisioning. The platform’s unified capabilities, along with our agentic AI analyst, Spotter, enable users to create precise, transparent, personalized, and actionable insights with enterprise grade trust, security, and scale. Accessible via the web and mobile app, ThoughtSpot ensures intelligent decision-making happens seamlessly, wherever and whenever needed. For developers, ThoughtSpot Embedded offers a low-code solution to integrate AI-powered analytics directly into products and services, driving data monetization and boosting user engagement for customers. Industry leaders like Vizio, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One and Huel rely on ThoughtSpot to transform how their employees and customers take advantage of data to create better business outcomes. Try ThoughtSpot today and experience the new era of analytics: https://www.thoughtspot.com/trial
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2019
Modern life is fueled by modern financial solutions that are so seamlessly woven into our daily lives, you almost forget they are there. At Marqeta, we don’t just think about how we transact, we think about how those transactions can unlock delight with every digital experience. Our modern card issuing platform enables our world-class customers to create tailored and embedded financial solutions that cater to the evolving needs of today’s consumers. Marqeta is a flexible-first company with headquarters in Oakland, CA. We’re passionate about empowering our people to make a significant impact and do the best work of their lives, all while revolutionizing the way millions experience the movement of money.
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2019
Dataminr has created a revolutionary AI platform for discovering real-time events, risks, and threats in public data, providing global organizations and corporations with critical and actionable information. Its pioneering multi-modal fusion AI pulls from more than one million unique public data sources to synthesize terabytes of data spanning text, image, video, audio, and sensor signals for accurate, real-time event detection across 150+ languages and 220+ countries and territories. Dataminr pushes the boundaries of real-time information with ReGenAI -- an innovation that combines Predictive AI and Generative AI to describe breaking events and provide dynamic re-generating updates to events as they unfold. Powered by more than 50 proprietary large-language models, Dataminr delivers the earliest actionable information to enhance the security and resilience of organizations, infrastructure, and people. Dataminr is making its mark for growth and innovation, earning multi-year recognition on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Forbes AI 50, Forbes Cloud 100, and Built In Best Places to Work lists. We are creating a team of talented builders, creators and visionaries to have a real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Join our team and help the world manage risk in real time. You’ll work with 500+ talented people across ten global offices, united by our passion to collaborate, make a difference, and have fun while doing it!
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2019
OneLogin by One Identity, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, leads the market in Identity and Access Management. OneLogin by One Identity, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, leads the market in Identity and Access Management and support more than 5,000 customers worldwide. Our platform provides everything you need to secure your workforce, customers and partners.
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Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by an AI security graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters. Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.
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2025
Placer.ai is the most advanced location analytics platform allowing anyone with a stake in the physical world to instantly generate insights into any property for a deeper understanding of the factors that drive success. Placer.ai is the first platform that fully empowers professionals in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, economic development, and more to truly understand and maximize their offline activities.
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2024
Vectra AI, Inc. is the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks. When modern cyber attackers bypass existing controls, evade detection and gain access to customers’ data center, campus, remote work, identity, cloud, and IoT/OT environments, the Vectra AI Platform sees their every move, connects the dots in real-time, and stops them from becoming breaches. With 35 patents in AI security and the most vendor references in MITRE D3FEND, organizations worldwide rely on Vectra AI to see and stop attacks their other tools can’t. For more information, visit www.vectra.ai.
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2024
Browsers are the application enterprises can’t live without, how we work with SaaS and private web applications. But browsers are a security blind spot. They operate without the necessary protection and security controls, exposing enterprises to attack. Browsers are the entry point for internet borne attacks, the exit point for data leakage. Menlo Security secures enterprise browsers. Menlo Browser Security manages browsers, protects your users, and secures application access and enterprise data, providing a complete enterprise browser solution from any browser. Menlo Security secures browsers while preserving user choice and providing a familiar, easy-to-use experience. You can deploy browser security policies in a single click, secure SaaS and private application access, and protect enterprise data down to the last mile. Secure your digital transformation with trusted and proven cyber defenses, on any browser. Work without worry and move business forward with Menlo Security.
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2024
Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Take a look at https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.
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