# Jennifer Lum

> Jennifer Lum is a seed investor at Biospring Partners backing Software. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Biospring Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/biospring-partners)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferlum
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/lum
- Website: https://www.biospring.com/jennifer-lum

Jennifer Lum is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Biospring Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in Life Sciences Technology. She is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor. She has cofounded several companies and has worked with many others from formation through to M&A.Jennifer is a Venture Capital Advisor at Harvard BusinessSchool and an Advisor at MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship. She is also an Advisory Board member at The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.Jennifer co-founded Forge.AI (acquired by FiscalNote) and Adelphic (acquired by Time). She was an early team member at Quattro Wireless (acquired by Apple), m-Qube (acquired by VeriSign) and WebHosting.com (acquired by AT&T).She has also held various roles as a management consultant with financial services and technology companies.Twitter: @lum

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $930k–$3M |
| Pre-Seed | $4M–$4.5M |
| Series A | $3M–$75M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 30% |
| Business Intelligence | 6 | 26% |
| SaaS | 5 | 22% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 22% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 39% |
| Series A | 5 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 17% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 57% |
| Canada | 2 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Labviva | Labviva is a digital marketplace for life science products that connects researchers with reagents, chemicals, and instrumentation suppliers. It leverages the scientific context as the organizing principle, connecting researchers with suppliers in an intuitive user-friendly platform while making it easy for suppliers to provide and manage thecontent for their products. Labviva's Inventory Management System (IMS) offers real-time inventory tracking, AI-driven purchase automation, and forecasting, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance. | $25M | Series B | Jan 13, 2025 |  |
| Patented.ai | Building the world's first infringement detector. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Infringements | Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Invalidate | IPR-tested prior art search. The ultimate patent invalidation tool. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Reasoner | Problems solved: - Multi-hop reasoning - Compound system data portability - Sub-second, multi-thousand data point synthesization - Multi-domain, multi-topic, multi-subject simultaneous analysis - Lossless recall - Zero hallucinations - And many, many more...Built. In Production. (Currently the reasoning engine powering Patented.ai to solve thehardest problems in litigation.) |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Labviva | Labviva is a digital marketplace for life science products that connects researchers with reagents, chemicals, and instrumentation suppliers. It leverages the scientific context as the organizing principle, connecting researchers with suppliers in an intuitive user-friendly platform while making it easy for suppliers to provide and manage thecontent for their products. Labviva's Inventory Management System (IMS) offers real-time inventory tracking, AI-driven purchase automation, and forecasting, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance. | $20M | Series A | Mar 27, 2023 |  |
| ixlayer | ixlayer is an industry leader in the health-tech ecosystem, providing innovative solutions for enabling health systems, payors, biopharma, and health-focused companies to offer health testing in a virtual environment. The ixlayer platform delivers end-to-end solutions for the technical, security, regulatory, and user experience components ofcomplex health testing. As the industry shifts to remote and virtual care options, ixlayer is powering patient engagement and preventative health strategies through virtual health testing, at scale. The ixlayer solution can be added to existing patient engagement platforms and patient portals to enable real time health and wellness lab testing. Founded in 2018, ixlayer currently supports millions of patients and has launched hundreds of testing programs for large organizations, health systems and every level of the government. | $75M | Series A | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| Uvaro | Uvaro's career success platform includes training, paid experience, advancement and ongoing coaching to ensure long-term career success. Our training program includes on-demand and live classes, our virtual internships let companies hire talent based on performance, our coaching and mentorship network drive ongoing career growth. Our averagestudent lands their new role in less than 17 days from graduation at more than 2x their previous income, and in their new roles achieve 50% more sales than their peers. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 01, 2020 |  |
| Uvaro | Uvaro's career success platform includes training, paid experience, advancement, and ongoing coaching to ensure long-term career success. Their training program includes on-demand and live classes. Their virtual internships let companies hire talent based on performance. Their coaching and mentorship network drive ongoing career growth. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 01, 2020 |  |
| Uvaro | Uvaro's career success platform includes training, paid experience, advancement, and ongoing coaching to ensure long-term career success. Their training program includes on-demand and live classes. Their virtual internships let companies hire talent based on performance. Their coaching and mentorship network drive ongoing career growth. | $3.5M | Seed | Jan 03, 2020 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Boston Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Xfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Cooley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cooley-llp) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Operator Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/operator-collective) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Biospring Partners

VC Fund · New York, United States

Biospring Partners is a growth equity firm that invests in Life Sciences Technology. Biospring leverages its deep experience in life sciences and technology to support B2B services, tools, and enterprise software companies that are driving innovation across the life sciences industry and beyond.

3 contacts available at Biospring Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Drew Pearson | Head of Portfolio Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-pearson |
| Jennifer Lum | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-lum |
| Michelle Detwiler | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michelle-dipp |

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## FAQ

### What does Jennifer Lum invest in?

Jennifer Lum invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 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 Jennifer Lum's check size?

Jennifer Lum typically joins rounds of $930k–$3M at Seed, $4M–$4.5M at Pre-Seed and $3M–$75M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jennifer Lum participates in.

### When did Jennifer Lum last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jennifer Lum closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 23 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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