Jay Simons
General Partner @ Bond
San Francisco, United States
Jay Simons is a seed investor at Bond in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Jay Simons is the General Partner of Bond. Prior to that, he was the former president of Atlassian, an award-winning enterprise software company that helps teams collaborate, build software and serve their customers better. More than 43,000 large and small organizations – including some of the biggest names in media, manufacturing, and technologysuch as Citigroup, eBay, Coca-Cola, Gilt Group, Proctor & Gamble, BMW, and NASA – use Atlassian’s tracking, collaboration, communication, service management, and development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time.Jay joined the company in 2008 as vice president of sales and marketing to lead Atlassian's pioneering efforts to develop a high-velocity, low-touch sales model. He's overseen the company's global expansion, introduction of its Starter License program (a disruptive approach to "freemium" where the company donates all proceeds to a charitable cause), and its growing worldwide customer community and programs. In 2011 Atlassian introduced its cloud-based offering Atlassian OnDemand, an evolution of its fast-growing SaaS platform.Jay has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry. He began his career at Plumtree Software where he held a variety of senior marketing and sales roles. Significantly, Jay oversaw the company's expansion throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific. When Plumtree was acquired by BEA Systems in 2005, Jay became vice president of marketing for BEA Systems, which was later acquired by Oracle in 2008. Jay holds a bachelor's degree in political and environmental science from the University of Washington.
- Total investments:
- 45
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Jay Simons invests in
Stages Jay Simons invests in
Countries Jay Simons invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $981k–$65M
- Series A
- $11M–$200M
- Series B
- $20M–$200M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 20 (44%)
- Artificial Intelligence 16 (36%)
- Analytics 8 (18%)
- SaaS 7 (16%)
- Enterprise Software 6 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (22%)
- Series A 9 (20%)
- Series B 7 (16%)
- Series C 7 (16%)
- Series D 6 (13%)
Country
- United States 31 (69%)
- Canada 2 (4%)
- Australia 2 (4%)
- France 1 (2%)
- Ireland 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Sycamore
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Sycamore provides an operating system for enterprises to build, deploy, and manage autonomous AI agents. The platform enables organizations to generate production-ready applications, integrations, and agents from natural language input while maintaining oversight and security. Agents operate under a progressive trust framework, allowing them togain autonomy based on performance, with all actions being auditable and governed.The system captures organizational knowledge and supports continuous learning, enabling multi-agent coordination and adaptation over time. It integrates security, compliance, and governance features to ensure controlled and traceable operations. Sycamore also facilitates experimentation with agent behavior, safety, and meta-learning to improve enterprise workflows through automated intelligence. | $65M / Seed / Mar 30, 2026 | |
Eon
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Eon is an enterprise backup and recovery solution that uses automatic mapping and classification to ensure that only essential data is stored. The EON platform is designed to enhance operational excellence through cloud-based software that implements improvements, develops capabilities, and measures results effectively | $300M / Series D / Dec 02, 2025 | |
ClickHouse
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ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system that focuses on real-time analytical reporting. It enables users to execute complex SQL queries efficiently, making it suitable for applications that require fast data processing and analysis. The system is particularly effective for big data environments, allowingorganizations to manage and analyze large volumes of information seamlessly. ClickHouse supports various data ingestion methods and offers features that facilitate data warehousing and observability. Its architecture is designed to optimize performance and scalability, catering to the needs of sales teams and data analysts seeking actionable insights from their data. | Series C / Oct 07, 2025 | |
Baseten
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Baseten provides a platform for training, deploying, and serving artificial intelligence models in production environments. It supports open-source, fine-tuned, and custom models, converting them into API endpoints with capabilities such as autoscaling, observability, and optimized model serving. The platform manages infrastructure componentsincluding containerization, GPU scheduling across multiple cloud providers, and performance optimizations to support large-scale inference workloads. Baseten also offers preconfigured model APIs and deployment options that can run either on its managed cloud service or within a customer's own environment. Its tools are designed to help developers build, manage, and scale AI applications while maintaining flexibility in how models are hosted and executed. | $150M / Series D / Sep 05, 2025 | |
Decagon
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Decagon creates generative AI for building customer service agents that work much more like humans and its platform gives customer support team leaders more visibility into their automated customer experience operations | $131M / Series C / Jun 23, 2025 | |
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ClickHouse
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ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system that focuses on real-time analytical reporting. It enables users to execute complex SQL queries efficiently, making it suitable for applications that require fast data processing and analysis. The system is particularly effective for big data environments, allowingorganizations to manage and analyze large volumes of information seamlessly. ClickHouse supports various data ingestion methods and offers features that facilitate data warehousing and observability. Its architecture is designed to optimize performance and scalability, catering to the needs of sales teams and data analysts seeking actionable insights from their data. | $350M / Series C / May 29, 2025 | |
Comulate
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Comulate provides AI-driven automation for accounting processes in insurance brokerage firms. Its platform manages tasks such as direct billing, cash application, carrier payables, and revenue integrity. The system extracts data from multiple sources, reconciles transactions with policy systems, and integrates with ledgers. It also identifiesdiscrepancies and generates variance reports. Comulate works with broker firms to improve efficiency in back-office financial operations. | $20M / Series B / Feb 11, 2025 | |
Alloy
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Index offers collaborative planning for high-growth technology companies. | $2.2M / Seed / Feb 11, 2025 | |
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Eon
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Eon is an enterprise backup and recovery solution that uses automatic mapping and classification to ensure that only essential data is stored. The EON platform is designed to enhance operational excellence through cloud-based software that implements improvements, develops capabilities, and measures results effectively | $70M / Series C / Nov 26, 2024 | |
Zip
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ZipHQ provides one place for any employee to initiate a purchase or vendor request. Each request is correctly routed for approval across procurement, finance, IT, data security, legal, and other teams. ZipHQ integrates into all major ERP and P2P solutions to create a PR or draft PO.The company provides one simple flow for all employees to createa purchase request, which is then automatically routed to the correct stakeholders. | $190M / Series D / Oct 21, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
About Bond
Bond is a venture capital firm that supports visionary founders of high-growth Internet companies throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth. The firm, a spinout of the Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund, was launched in January 2019 and founded by Mary Meeker with Mood Rowghani, Noah Knauf.
Bond Contacts
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Daegwon Chae
General Partner
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Erikson Kuebler
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Jay Simons
General Partner
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Jesse Ellingworth
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Mary Meeker
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FAQ
What does Jay Simons invest in?
Jay Simons invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 45 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 Jay Simons's check size?
Jay Simons typically joins rounds of $981k–$65M at Seed, $11M–$200M at Series A and $20M–$200M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jay Simons participates in.
When did Jay Simons last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jay Simons closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 45 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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