Jason McBride, J.D., M.A., M.A.

Partner at AIX Ventures| Early stage investing in B2B Enterprise, Cyber, AI| Ex M12 Partner, Lightspeed Scout | Stanford Alum | UCLA Law

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
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Apr 2026
Recursive self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery.
Board Observer and Investor
Jul 2025
Board Observer and Investor
Jul 2025
Solvea accelerates dealmaking for the worlds best investors.
Board Observer and Investor
Apr 2025
Coverflow reduces busywork for brokers and account managers by up to 90%. Rather than processing new business or renewals by hand, let our state-of-the-art AI read, analyze, and compare multiple quotes, and even update your AMS—all in a couple of minutes. That way, you can focus on the important work: building meaningful client relationships.
Board Observer and Investor
Feb 2025
Solve Intelligence is the leading AI patent solution for IP teams and legal professionals globally. Over 400 IP teams across 6 continents use Solve Intelligence’s AI patent software for patent application drafting, prosecution, claim charts, and invention harvesting. Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, 20VC and Visionaries, Solve Intelligence has raised a total of $55m in funding to build the world’s leading AI patent tools to support the end-to-end workflows of IP teams and legal professionals. Our goal is simple: if it touches patents, you should be able to do it faster, better, and more collaboratively in Solve Intelligence. With a growing team of world-leading engineers and patent attorneys, Solve Intelligence is actively hiring across a number of roles: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs If you are a patent practitioner, we would love to hear from you: https://www.solveintelligence.com/contact-us
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Jan 2025
Work AI for all. The Work AI platform connected to all your data. Find, create, and automate anything.
Investor
Jun 2024
Zenity is the first security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents - spanning SaaS, home grown platforms (Cloud), and end-user devices (Endpoint). Trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises, Zenity helps security teams confidently adopt AI by delivering defense in depth with full-lifecycle coverage: from agent discovery and posture management to real-time detection, prevention, and response. As enterprises adopt Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce Agentforce, AWS Bedrock, and developer tools like GitHub Copilot, Zenity eliminates blind spots and enforces consistent policy across environments so organizations can innovate with AI, without compromising security. Learn more at www.zenity.io.
Board Observer and Investor
Mar 2024
Builder is the AI-powered visual development platform that turns ideas into production-ready web and mobile experiences in seconds, not sprints. Cross-functional teams use Builders visual canvas to generate, iterate, and ship experiences without the traditional bottlenecks of tickets, mockups, and coding handoffs. Everything integrates seamlessly with your existing tech stack, design system, and codebase. Whether youre an engineering leader eliminating dev delays, a design leader creating interactive prototypes with your design system, a product leader testing ideas faster, or a marketing leader launching campaigns without engineering dependencies - Builder accelerates every team.
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Feb 2024
Most teams building complex systems hit the same wall: the diagram lives in one place, the code lives in another, and neither stays current for long. Mermaid diagrams are text, so they version with your code, travel with your PRs, and can be read, generated, and acted on by every major AI (including Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, Windsurf, and more). 200k+ teams use it as the layer where complex systems stay legible — for the humans building them, and the agents running alongside. Built on Mermaid.js — the open-source standard, 87k+ GitHub stars.
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Sep 2023
HiddenLayer, a Gartner-recognized Cool Vendor for AI Security, is the leading provider of Security for AI. Its AISec Platform unifies supply chain security, runtime defense, posture management, and automated red teaming to protect agentic, generative and predictive AI applications. The platform enables organizations across the private and public sectors to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and adopt AI with confidence. Founded by a team of cybersecurity and machine learning veterans, HiddenLayer combines patented technology with industry-leading research to defend against prompt injection, adversarial manipulation, model theft, and supply chain compromise. The company is backed by strategic investors including M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Moore Strategic Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Capital One Ventures.
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Aug 2023
Collective is the first all-in-one financial platform designed to give self-employed entrepreneurs the technology and team they need so they can focus on their passion, not their paperwork. Collective handles LLC and S Corp formation, payroll, taxes, monthly bookkeeping, compliance and more all in one place, exclusively for solopreneurs.
Investor
Jun 2022
EarlyBird is the simplest and most meaningful way to invest in a child’s future starting at the youngest age possible. Through the EarlyBird platform, we empower parents, family, and friends to collectively invest in every child to celebrate all of lifes most precious Moments. Our mission is through the power of love, community, and capital, we will democratize access to generational wealth for ALL US families.
Investor and Strategic Advisor
Jan 2022
A one of a kind interactive platform for children ages 3–12 to enjoy engaging, kid-centric, educational entertainment.
Investor
Jul 2021
Are you constantly texting links to your friends? There's a better way, with Faves! Faves is a new social media app centered around sharing your favorite content from across the internet with your friends. Faves was founded by a Stanford MBA who has raised over $20M of venture capital and we recently raised $5M in VC funding from the same investors as Snapchat.
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Mar 2021
Greenwood is a mobile banking platform for Black and Latinx people and business owners. Greenwood features best-in-class digital banking services and innovative ways of giving back to the community. Our communities suffer from a lack of wealth, money circulation in the Black community, and generational transfer. That is why we created a new Black owned financial institution. A mobile banking platform inspired by the early 1900’s Greenwood District, where recirculation of Black wealth occurred all day, every day, and where Black businesses thrived. Today’s Greenwood is a Black owned banking system developed by us, for us. This is our time. *Greenwood is not a bank. Banking services provided by Coastal Community Bank, Member FDIC.
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Apr 2026
Recursive self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery.
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Jul 2025
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Jul 2025
Solvea accelerates dealmaking for the worlds best investors.
Partner, App Layer
Apr 2025
AI practitioners investing into AI powered companies
Board Observer and Investor
Apr 2025
Coverflow reduces busywork for brokers and account managers by up to 90%. Rather than processing new business or renewals by hand, let our state-of-the-art AI read, analyze, and compare multiple quotes, and even update your AMS—all in a couple of minutes. That way, you can focus on the important work: building meaningful client relationships.
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