# Jeff Herbst

> Jeff Herbst is a Series A investor at GFT Ventures backing Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [GFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gft-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeff-herbst/0/2/901

Jeff Herbst is a Series A investor at GFT Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Jeff Herbst, Founding Managing Partner at GFT Ventures

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 46% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 46% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 31% |
| Analytics | 2 | 15% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Series B | 3 | 23% |
| Series C | 3 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 46% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Israel | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mperativ | Mperativ design and develop marketing software solutions with a focus to increase the revenue of organizations via the platform. | $5M | Series A | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Deepgram | Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $25M | Series B | Feb 03, 2021 |  |
| Deepgram | Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $12M | Series A | Mar 18, 2020 |  |
| Deep Instinct | Deep Instinct applies artificial intelligence’s deep learning to cybersecurity. Leveraging deep learning’s predictive capabilities, Deep Instinct’s on-device solution protects against zero-day threats and APT attacks with unmatched accuracy. Deep Instinct safeguards the enterprise’s endpoints and/or any mobile devices against any threat, onany infrastructure, whether or not connected to the network or to the Internet. By applying deep learning technology to cybersecurity, enterprises can now gain unmatched protection against unknown and evasive cyber-attacks from any source. Deep Instinct brings a completely new approach to cybersecurity enabling cyber-attacks to be identified and blocked in real-time before any harm can occur.Deep Instinct USA is headquartered in San Francisco, California and Deep Instinct Israel is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $43M | Series C | Feb 12, 2020 |  |
| H2O.ai | H2O.ai is an AI cloud company, on a mission to democratize AI for everyone. Customers use the H2O AI Hybrid Cloud platform to rapidly solve complex business problems and accelerate the discovery of new ideas. H2O.ai is the trusted AI partner to more than 20,000 global organizations, including AT&T, Allergan, Bon Secours Mercy Health, CapitalOne, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, GlaxoSmithKline, Hitachi, Kaiser Permanente, Procter & Gamble, PayPal, PwC, Reckitt, Unilever, and Walgreens, over half of the Fortune 500 and one million data scientists. Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and Wells Fargo are not only customers and partners, but strategic investors in the company. H2O.ai’s customers have honored the company with a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 78— the highest in the industry based on breadth of technology and deep employee expertise. The world’s top 20 Kaggle Grandmasters (the community of best-in-the-world machine learning practitioners and data scientists) are employees of H2O.ai. A strong AI for Good ethos to make the world a better place and Responsible AI drive the company’s purpose. Please join our movement at www.H2O.ai. | $72.5M | Series D | Aug 20, 2019 |  |
| Deep Instinct | Deep Instinct applies artificial intelligence’s deep learning to cybersecurity. Leveraging deep learning’s predictive capabilities, Deep Instinct’s on-device solution protects against zero-day threats and APT attacks with unmatched accuracy. Deep Instinct safeguards the enterprise’s endpoints and/or any mobile devices against any threat, onany infrastructure, whether or not connected to the network or to the Internet. By applying deep learning technology to cybersecurity, enterprises can now gain unmatched protection against unknown and evasive cyber-attacks from any source. Deep Instinct brings a completely new approach to cybersecurity enabling cyber-attacks to be identified and blocked in real-time before any harm can occur.Deep Instinct USA is headquartered in San Francisco, California and Deep Instinct Israel is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $32M | Series B | Jun 12, 2018 |  |
| Deepgram | Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  |  | Mar 26, 2018 |  |
| H2O.ai | H2O.ai is an AI cloud company, on a mission to democratize AI for everyone. Customers use the H2O AI Hybrid Cloud platform to rapidly solve complex business problems and accelerate the discovery of new ideas. H2O.ai is the trusted AI partner to more than 20,000 global organizations, including AT&T, Allergan, Bon Secours Mercy Health, CapitalOne, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, GlaxoSmithKline, Hitachi, Kaiser Permanente, Procter & Gamble, PayPal, PwC, Reckitt, Unilever, and Walgreens, over half of the Fortune 500 and one million data scientists. Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and Wells Fargo are not only customers and partners, but strategic investors in the company. H2O.ai’s customers have honored the company with a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 78— the highest in the industry based on breadth of technology and deep employee expertise. The world’s top 20 Kaggle Grandmasters (the community of best-in-the-world machine learning practitioners and data scientists) are employees of H2O.ai. A strong AI for Good ethos to make the world a better place and Responsible AI drive the company’s purpose. Please join our movement at www.H2O.ai. | $40M | Series C | Nov 30, 2017 |  |
| BlazingDB | Blazing DB is a cloud platform database management system that is accelerated trough the use of video graphics cards (GPUs). - In the cloud. - Easy to setup. - Unbelievably fast. | $2.9M | Seed | Nov 30, 2017 |  |
| Element AI | Element AI is an artificial intelligence company that gives organizations unparalleled access to cutting-edge technology. The company launches and incubates advanced AI-First solutions in partnership with large corporations. They deliver AI software products that augment decisions to make your business stronger, safer, and more agile.Element AIallows accelerating the deployment and commercialization of solutions that meet customer needs for the operationalization of AI while continuing to develop AI products. It maintains a strong connection to academia through research collaborations and takes a leadership position in policy-making around the impact of technology on society. The has built an AI systems integrator of sorts to help other companies develop and implement artificial intelligence solutions an Accenture’ for machine learning, neural network-based solutions, and computer vision applications.Element AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. | $102M | Series A | Jun 14, 2017 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NVIDIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nvidia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SAP.iO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sap-io) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wells Fargo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wells-fargo-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wing Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wing-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About GFT Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

GFT Ventures is an early-stage frontier technology-focused VC firm investing primarily in the US and Israel. We invest in category-leading startups developing disruptive technologies that solve the world's hardest problems. We add value to our portfolio companies by relying on our extensive experience, track record, and our globalrelationships with early adopter partners and customers.

3 contacts available at GFT Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jeff Herbst | Managing Partner | — |
| Jay Eum | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-h-eum |
| Jeff Herbst | Managing Partner | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Jeff Herbst invest in?

Jeff Herbst invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Jeff Herbst?

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### When did Jeff Herbst last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jeff Herbst closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 13 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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