# Adam Jackson

> Adam Jackson is a seed investor at Braintrust Network backing Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Braintrust Network
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ajackson
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/adamjacksonsf
- Website: http://www.jacksonfound.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/donotdisturb

Adam Jackson is a seed investor at Braintrust Network in San Francisco focused on Software and Apps. Adam is a serial technology entrepreneur and investor that has spent his career creating and deploying capital into software systems that make complex tasks simple and intuitive. He's started 4 VC-backed companies and an asset management company over the last 16 years.Since August, 2017 he has served as Managing Partner & CTO ofCambrian Asset Management, a blockchain asset management company. He is also co-founder and CEO of Freelance Labs, Inc., the company building a new tokenized talent network called Braintrust which raised a $5m seed round in 2018.In 2012, he co-founded and served as CEO of Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides Video Visits with board-certified physicians and psychologists. Doctor On Demand delivers services through employers, health systems, health plans, and directly to consumers and has raised $165M in VC.His previous business, DriverSide was founded in 2007 and was acquired by Advance Auto Parts in September of 2011.His first venture-backed business, MarketSquare, founded in 2004, was the first online local shopping destinations on the Internet. It was acquired by Intuit in September of 2006.He is an angel investor in 45+ companies/projects, including: LTSE, Seated, Bolt, Placer, Aktana, Skale Labs, Protocol Labs, JCTurbo, Apero Health, Rapportive, MyTime, Automatic, Womply, Superhuman and Zenefits.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Apps | 2 | 25% |
| CRM | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| Web3 | 1 | 13% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 75% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 75% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Smashing | Smashing, an invite-only app by Daily Reader Labs, tackles content overload and social media burnout | $3.4M | Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Collectibles.com | Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector. | $5M | Seed | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| Spexi | Spexi is the first-of-its-kind FLY TO EARN network enabling drone pilots to earn rewards for flying and capturing aerial imagery at scale.Spexi also enables organizations to quickly and easily access high-resolution aerial imagery to better prepare for disasters, enable smart cities, remotely inspect infrastructure, monitor natural resources, andso much more without needing to own drones or hire pilots. | $5.5M | Seed | Oct 04, 2022 |  |
| Syndicate | Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $1M | Seed | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| Womply | Our mission is to help local businesses thrive in a digital world. Founded in 2011, Womply is a local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools to make local commerce happen for over 500,000 American businesses and their customers. All of Womply’s products and services are powered by the Womply Commerce Graph, aproprietary data asset that offers the most complete view of local commerce. | $20M |  | Aug 01, 2014 |  |
| Zenefits | Zenefits is an all-in-one Digital HR platform for small and medium businesses. Designed as a single source of truth for managing the modern workforce, Zenefits delivers the most complete, all-mobile HR experience by tightly integrating its own powerful applications with dozens of best-of-breed providers on the Zenefits platform. Zenefits’applications like HR, Benefits, Time, Payroll, and Compliance combine with partner applications like email, collaboration, expense management, and employee engagement to create a powerful platform. Thousands of businesses use Zenefits to empower their employees, manage change, and stay compliant. | $2.1M | Seed | Jul 26, 2013 |  |
| MyTime | MyTime is a fully integrated appointment scheduling, point-of-sale and customer engagement platform for multi-location chains and franchises. It’s built to be modular, but it really shines when the various components work together to maximize revenue by reaching customers wherever they are at the moment they are ready to transact.Ouraward-winning online booking experience can be integrated into your website and mobile apps, as well as Google Search and Google Maps, Bing, Facebook, and Instagram, thereby enabling your customers to find, book, and transact with you from anyplace they engage with your brand. Our automated marketing system increases client retention and visit frequency. And we automate the many tedious, manual operational tasks so you can focus on your service and your customers.Find out what it means to integrate scheduling, marketing and payments into a single, easy-to-use platform and why MyTime won Best Local Commerce Service of 2017 from the Local Search Association and has been featured by both Apple and Google as “Best New App” in their respective App Stores.Our cloud-based platform is scalable, secure, and ready for any size deployment. | $3M | Series A | May 01, 2012 |  |
| Rapportive | Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.You can immediately see what people look like, where they're based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more. And you can record thoughts for later byleaving notes. |  | Seed | Aug 02, 2010 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blockchange Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchange-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alliance DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/defi-alliance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accelerator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerator-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Advancit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advancit-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archetype](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetypefund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Braintrust Network

VC Fund

Braintrust is the first decentralized Web3 talent network that connects skilled, vetted knowledge workers with the companies.

1 contacts available at Braintrust Network.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Jackson | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-jackson |

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## FAQ

### What does Adam Jackson invest in?

Adam Jackson invests primarily in Software, Apps and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Adam Jackson's check size?

Adam Jackson typically joins rounds of $1M–$5.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Adam Jackson participates in.

### How do I contact Adam Jackson?

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### When did Adam Jackson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Adam Jackson closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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