# Jack Conte

> Jack Conte is a seed investor at Patreon (San Francisco) backing E-Learning and Music. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Patreon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patreon)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-conte-a15a3686
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jackconte
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JackConteMusic

Jack Conte is a seed investor at Patreon in San Francisco focused on E-Learning and Music. Jack Conte is the Co-Founder and CEO of Patreon. He attended Stanford University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Learning | 3 | 30% |
| Music | 2 | 20% |
| Video | 2 | 20% |
| EdTech | 2 | 20% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 80% |
| Singapore | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nas Company (Formerly Nas Academy) | The great irony is that people don’t enjoy education, but they love learning.We believe that Creators can fix that gap with better technology and world-class learning experiences.How?1. We have some of the world’s most engaging teachers 2. We have unmatched learning experiences 3. We are the subject matter experts in the creator economySounds exciting? Join us in building the platform for creators, by creators. | $12M |  | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Nas Company (Formerly Nas Academy) | The great irony is that people don’t enjoy education, but they love learning.We believe that Creators can fix that gap with better technology and world-class learning experiences.How?1. We have some of the world’s most engaging teachers 2. We have unmatched learning experiences 3. We are the subject matter experts in the creator economySounds exciting? Join us in building the platform for creators, by creators. | $12M |  | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Nas.com | Nas.io helps anyone go from idea to revenue in 1 minute with AI. Create digital products, build engaged communities, and automate marketing—all in one intuitive platform. Nas.io puts community first. Challenges, events, social feed, and memberships drive revenue growth for your business. Join 200k+ entrepreneurs and build your dream digitalbusiness with AI in 1 minute, no technical skills required. | $12M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Twelve Labs | TwelveLabs develops artificial intelligence models and infrastructure for understanding, searching, and analyzing video content. Its platform enables applications to interpret visual, audio, and spoken information within videos, allowing users to perform semantic search, generate summaries, identify events and objects, and extract insights fromvideo data. The company provides APIs and multimodal AI models that support use cases across media, entertainment, security, enterprise knowledge management, and other video-intensive applications. It also conducts research in video understanding and machine learning to improve how AI processes and reasons over video content. | $5M | Seed | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Creator Now | Creator Now is the Online educational platform for digital creators. | $3M | Seed | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| Foody | Foody enables users to buy recipes, or upload their own, and keep them in one ad-free place. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 12, 2021 |  |
| Descript | Descript is a collaborative audio and video editor that transcribes audio to a text document for editing. It also provides automated and manual transcribing solutions for voice audio files. In addition, the platform utilizes speech recognition technology to transcribe audio and video files in a short duration of time. Descript also offersAI-powered features and intuitive interface that fuel YouTube and TikTok channels, top podcasts, and businesses using video for marketing, sales, and internal training and collaboration | $30M | Series B | Feb 01, 2021 |  |
| Geneva | We started Geneva to help people stay connected to the groups they love and help them make new friends through the groups they have yet to find. We know that being a part of groups is vital to our happiness and well-being, but the tools and platforms most of us use today aren’t designed to help us build and participate in the groups that matter tous. That's why we’re building Geneva — a new communication app that gives groups, clubs, and communities everything they need to come together online, all in one place. | $12M | Series A | Dec 24, 2020 |  |
| Stir | Stir Money is a platform that enables digital creators to manage their various revenue streams, organize their analytics, and share funds with collaborators — unveiled its beta product. | $4M | Seed | Oct 20, 2020 |  |
| Moment House | Social live media platform for creators. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 06, 2020 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BECO Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beco-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FTX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ftx-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HOF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hof-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Pitango VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitango-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Patreon

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Patreon is a membership platform that makes it easy for artists and creators to get paid. It operates a platform that enables content creators, as well as artists, to be able to fund their work. It's Patreon.com, a communications platform, enables connection between users and makes various accessible content, including videos, photographs,images, artwork, graphics, audio clips, comments, data, text, software, scripts, projects, other material and information, and associated trademarks and copyrightable works.Patrons pledge to support artists and creators on a recurring basis for each work created, empowering a new generation of creators the ability to make a living off of their passions.

5 contacts available at Patreon.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Wu | Chief of Staff to the CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-wu-f0dd |
| Betsy McCormick | VP of Creator Success | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betsy-mccormick-4fb0 |
| Danny Wen | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-wen-2 |
| Domagoj Katavic | Senior Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/domagoj-katavic |
| George Bonner | Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-bonner |

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## FAQ

### What does Jack Conte invest in?

Jack Conte invests primarily in E-Learning, Music and Video startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jack Conte last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jack Conte closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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