# Brian Jacobs

> Brian Jacobs is a seed investor at Stanford Graduate School of Business backing Software and SaaS. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stanford Graduate School of Business](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanford-graduate-school-of-business)
- Location: San Mateo, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjacobsemergence
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/brianjacobsvc

Brian Jacobs is a Founder and General Partner at Emergence Capital Partners. He was a Member of the Board of Directors at Hightail. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$30M |
| Series A | $7.4M–$100M |
| Series C | $8.5M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 16% |
| SaaS | 5 | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 9% |
| Mobile | 3 | 7% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 14% |
| Series C | 5 | 12% |
| Series A | 4 | 9% |
| Series B | 4 | 9% |
| Series D | 4 | 9% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 35% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Idilio | Idilio TV is a media‑tech startup building an AI‑powered microdrama platform primarily for Spanish‑ and Portuguese‑speaking audiences. | $5.5M | Seed | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Sauna by Wordware | Wordware allows users to create and host their entire LLM stack for AI application development. It offers tools for building, training, and deploying language models. The platform simplifies the integration of various components necessary for AI solutions. Users can manage their applications and data within a unified environment. | $30M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Reset Financial Technologies | Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 29, 2024 |  |
| Upwage | Our mission is to create $1 trillion in new wealth for the 44% of Americans who make less than $16/hr, using the power of big data & AI. | $7.3M | Seed | Jul 01, 2023 |  |
| Daivergent | Daivergent is the first reimbursable job-readiness and care delivery platform for the 70 million adult disability population. Our software enables neurodivergent and disability talent to enter the digital workforce for the very first time, supporting industries from artificial intelligence to healthcare and beyond. | $3.3M | Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Plateaumed | Plateaumed provides a world class EHR/medical practice automation platform, integrated clinical decision support and patient connect channels to African public and private hospitals |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2022 |  |
| Impartner | Impartner delivers robust SaaS-based partner relationship management and marketing automation platform solutions. The company is driven by a mission to enable companies to maximize revenue opportunities throughout the complete customer sales lifecycle. | $50M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| AnimalBiome | AnimalBiome provides personalized nutrition services rooted in the science of the microbiome to improve the gut health of dogs and cats. AnimalBiome’s microbiome tests characterize the gut microbiome of individual pets to help provide useful nutrition recommendations, and its restorative supplements are made with material sourced directly fromhealthy pets to introduce missing beneficial microbes and balance the microbiome. | $8.6M | Series A | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| AnimalBiome | AnimalBiome provides personalized nutrition services rooted in the science of the microbiome to improve the gut health of dogs and cats. AnimalBiome’s microbiome tests characterize the gut microbiome of individual pets to help provide useful nutrition recommendations, and its restorative supplements are made with material sourced directly fromhealthy pets to introduce missing beneficial microbes and balance the microbiome. | $1.3M | Seed | Jul 17, 2020 |  |
| AnimalBiome | AnimalBiome provides personalized nutrition services rooted in the science of the microbiome to improve the gut health of dogs and cats. AnimalBiome’s microbiome tests characterize the gut microbiome of individual pets to help provide useful nutrition recommendations, and its restorative supplements are made with material sourced directly fromhealthy pets to introduce missing beneficial microbes and balance the microbiome. | $1.6M | Seed | Feb 13, 2019 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sigma Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sigma-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [DCM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dcm) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Split Rock Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/split-rock-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Rembrandt Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rembrant-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Stanford Graduate School of Business

VC Fund · Stanford, United States

Stanford GSB is a business management school that creates ideas that deepen and advance understanding of management. It offers a general management Master of Business Administration degree, a full-time twelve-month MS in Management for mid-career executives, and a Ph.D. program, along with a number of joint degrees with other schools at StanfordUniversity including Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, Law and Medicine. The Stanford Graduate School of Business was established in 1925 in Stanford, California. It currently has 114 acedemic staff, 2,284 students, 101 doctoral students, and 882 postgraduate students.

5 contacts available at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Baba Shiv | Professor of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/professor-baba-shiv |
| Bill Meehan | Raccoon Partners Lecturer in Strategic Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-meehan |
| Deepti Pahwa | Executive Educator and Coach | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepti-pahwa |
| Franklin Johnson | Lecturer - Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitch-johnson |
| Greg Waldorf | Lecturer in Management, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-waldorf |

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## FAQ

### What does Brian Jacobs invest in?

Brian Jacobs invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 43 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 Brian Jacobs's check size?

Brian Jacobs typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$30M at Seed, $7.4M–$100M at Series A and $8.5M–$33M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Brian Jacobs participates in.

### When did Brian Jacobs last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brian Jacobs closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 43 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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