# Jeffrey Schox

> Jeffrey Schox is a seed investor at Schox Venture Capital backing Software. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Schox Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/schox-venture-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jschox
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jschox

Jeffrey Schox is a seed investor at Schox Venture Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Jeff Schox is the founder of Schox Patent Group, a boutique patent firm focused on startups, and the founding partner at Schox Venture Capital, which invests $100-500K in clients of Schox Patent Group. Jeff is also the founding partner at Trucks Venture Capital, which invests $1-2M in startups that are building the future of transportation. Jeffhas made 100+ angel investments in startups, including Twilio (first investor, IPO), Cruise (acquired), Ambient (first investor), Celsee (acquired), eero (acquired), Helium, Luminous (first investor), Molekule (acquired), NeuMoDx (acquired), Omada, Vicarious (acquired), and Zendrive (first investor).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$10M |
| Series A | $5M–$30M |
| Series B | $55M–$85M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 21% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 16% |
| Robotics | 5 | 13% |
| Automotive | 5 | 13% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 45% |
| Series A | 11 | 29% |
| Series B | 4 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 74% |
| Kenya | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maritime Fusion | Maritime Fusion specializes in the development and construction of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) fusion reactors. | $4.5M | Seed | Nov 24, 2025 |  |
| BasiGo | BasiGo is an e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing public transport bus owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel.The company offers electric buses for public transportation in Kenya and Rwanda, operating on a pay-as-you-go model. his model includes maintenance and batterycharging, making it easier for bus operators to transition to electric vehicles. | $24M | Series A | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Verne | Verne is a hydrogen optimized for heavy transport that allows vehicle operators to maintain existing operations and meet zero-emission targets. |  | Seed | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| BasiGo | BasiGo is an e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing public transport bus owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel.The company offers electric buses for public transportation in Kenya and Rwanda, operating on a pay-as-you-go model. his model includes maintenance and batterycharging, making it easier for bus operators to transition to electric vehicles. | $6.6M | Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Wispr Flow | Think it, speak it, send it. Effortless voice dictation for Mac and now Windows! | $10M | Seed | Oct 24, 2022 |  |
| Viam | Viam is a robotics company that aims to build products that help people's daily lives. Viam is revolutionizing software and hardware integration for a wide range of devices, including industrial robots, smart home appliances, and IoT devices, by leveraging sensing, computing, and actuation capabilities. The company was founded in 2020 by EliotHorowitz and is headquartered in New York, United States. | $30M | Series A | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Terraline | Solo AVT engages in revolutionizing the heavy truck industry. | $7M | Seed | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Bettani | Climax Foods is a data science company innovating the future of food. It has developed sophisticated machine intelligence tools to unlock smarter paths from plants to products, creating a new generation of plant-based foods that will out-compete animal-based predecessors.Together, a team of top data and food scientists from around the globe areintelligently harnessing the vast biodiversity of the plant kingdom to create the pinnacle of flavor, texture, and nutrition — at a price point for everyone.Climax Foods was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States. | $16M | Seed | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| BlockJoy | BlockJoy is a venture-backed Web3 infrastructure company that enables to run their own blockchain nodes on any infrastructure they prefer. | $2.1M | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Gatik | Gatik is a startup developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics. It specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, automotive, and logistics. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $85M | Series B | Aug 31, 2021 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [eLab Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michigan-elab) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Novastar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novastar-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Pillar VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pillar-companies-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Schox Venture Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Schox Venture Capital invests in the clients of Schox Patent Group, which developed the patent strategy and wrote the patents for some of the most iconic startups in the last decade. Started in 2020 on the AngelList platform, Schox Venture Capital has invested in 50+ startups, including BlockJoy, Ciitizen (acquired), Climax Foods, Gatik, MerlinLabs, Oculii (acquired), Space Perspective, Oma Robotics, Viam, and xLight.

1 contacts available at Schox Venture Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jeffrey Schox | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-schox |

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## FAQ

### What does Jeffrey Schox invest in?

Jeffrey Schox invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 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 Jeffrey Schox's check size?

Jeffrey Schox typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$10M at Seed, $5M–$30M at Series A and $55M–$85M 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 Jeffrey Schox participates in.

### When did Jeffrey Schox last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jeffrey Schox closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 38 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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