# Jim Baum

> Jim Baum is a Series B investor at General Catalyst (Boston) backing SaaS and Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbaum/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jamespbaum
- Website: https://x.com/jamespbaum

Jim Baum is a Series B investor at General Catalyst in Boston focused on SaaS and Software. Jim Baum recently served as President and CEO of data warehousing and analytics company, Netezza Corporation, leading the company through its IPO to acquisition by IBM.Before joining Netezza, Jim served at President and CEO of Endeca, a private company that was later acquired by Oracle. During his tenure at Endeca, an enterprise informationmanagement company, Jim grew the company from a startup to a leading provider of innovative information access and delivery software solutions.He began his career as an engineer at PTC, where he worked in various leadership positions across product management, marketing, and strategy in his 11 years with the company, helping to drive it to more than $1B in revenue. Jim, who brings over 25 years of technology experience to EnerNOC’s Board, is the Chair of the Technology Committee and a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee and the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 27% |
| Software | 3 | 27% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 27% |
| Big Data | 2 | 18% |
| Analytics | 2 | 18% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 36% |
| Series C | 4 | 36% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Series D | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 27% |
| Brazil | 1 | 9% |
| Israel | 1 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PhysicsX | PhysicsX develops AI-powered engineering software that combines physics-based modeling, simulation, data management, and machine learning to support product development, manufacturing, and operational workflows. Its platform enables organizations to build, train, deploy, and manage AI models that work alongside numerical simulations, helpingengineers evaluate designs, optimize processes, and analyze complex physical systems. The company provides tools for simulation orchestration, AI model development, data integration, and engineering applications within a unified environment. PhysicsX serves industries such as aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy, where engineering teams use its software to support design exploration, performance analysis, and decision-making across the product lifecycle. | $300M | Series C | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| PhysicsX | PhysicsX develops AI-powered engineering software that combines physics-based modeling, simulation, data management, and machine learning to support product development, manufacturing, and operational workflows. Its platform enables organizations to build, train, deploy, and manage AI models that work alongside numerical simulations, helpingengineers evaluate designs, optimize processes, and analyze complex physical systems. The company provides tools for simulation orchestration, AI model development, data integration, and engineering applications within a unified environment. PhysicsX serves industries such as aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy, where engineering teams use its software to support design exploration, performance analysis, and decision-making across the product lifecycle. | $135M | Series B | Jun 22, 2025 |  |
| PhysicsX | PhysicsX develops AI-powered engineering software that combines physics-based modeling, simulation, data management, and machine learning to support product development, manufacturing, and operational workflows. Its platform enables organizations to build, train, deploy, and manage AI models that work alongside numerical simulations, helpingengineers evaluate designs, optimize processes, and analyze complex physical systems. The company provides tools for simulation orchestration, AI model development, data integration, and engineering applications within a unified environment. PhysicsX serves industries such as aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy, where engineering teams use its software to support design exploration, performance analysis, and decision-making across the product lifecycle. | $32M | Series A | Nov 27, 2023 |  |
| Tractian | TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear. | $45M | Series B | Aug 07, 2023 |  |
| Logz.io | Logz.io provides an intelligent and scalable machine data analytics platform built on ELK and Grafana. Designed for monitoring modern applications, Logz.io combines cloud-native simplicity and scalability with crowdsourced artificial intelligence to help engineers identify critical issues before they occur and empower them to monitor, troubleshootand secure mission-critical applications using one unified platform. | $52M | Series D | May 29, 2019 |  |
| project44 | project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that manages more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world’s leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences,food & beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical & gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability. The undisputed leader in the market and innovator of Movement GPT, project44 was named the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, #1 in FreightWaves FreightTech 2023, a ten-time leader in customer satisfaction on G2’s Supply Chain Visibility Grid, one of SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022, and the Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report. project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 15 global offices including Amsterdam, Kraków, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. Learn more at project44.com. | $45M | Series C | Oct 01, 2018 |  |
| project44 | project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that manages more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world’s leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences,food & beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical & gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability. The undisputed leader in the market and innovator of Movement GPT, project44 was named the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, #1 in FreightWaves FreightTech 2023, a ten-time leader in customer satisfaction on G2’s Supply Chain Visibility Grid, one of SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022, and the Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report. project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 15 global offices including Amsterdam, Kraków, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. Learn more at project44.com. | $35M | Series B | Apr 17, 2018 |  |
| Applitools | Applitools has developed the first cloud based software testing tool that automatically validates all the visual aspects of any Web, Mobile and Native app like a manual tester does.Applitools’ disruptive technology automatically validates the correctness of the UI layout, content and appearance, and enables you to automate tests that can only bedone manually without it. It can test apps on any browser, device, OS and programming language, on any screen resolution and form-factor. | $31M | Series C | Apr 17, 2018 |  |
| Logz.io | Logz.io provides an intelligent and scalable machine data analytics platform built on ELK and Grafana. Designed for monitoring modern applications, Logz.io combines cloud-native simplicity and scalability with crowdsourced artificial intelligence to help engineers identify critical issues before they occur and empower them to monitor, troubleshootand secure mission-critical applications using one unified platform. | $23M | Series C | Nov 15, 2017 |  |
| Logz.io | Logz.io provides an intelligent and scalable machine data analytics platform built on ELK and Grafana. Designed for monitoring modern applications, Logz.io combines cloud-native simplicity and scalability with crowdsourced artificial intelligence to help engineers identify critical issues before they occur and empower them to monitor, troubleshootand secure mission-critical applications using one unified platform. | $16M | Series B | Nov 15, 2016 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [83North](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock-partners-israel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [N47](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next47) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [NGP Energy Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ngp-energy-capital-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Radius Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/radius-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chicago Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chicago-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About General Catalyst

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

General Catalyst is a global investment firm that supports businesses at every stage, from seed to growth. It focuses on fostering resilience and advancing applied AI through its investments. The firm collaborates with entrepreneurs to provide capital and strategic guidance, enabling innovation across industries such as healthcare, fintech, andconsumer technology.

5 contacts available at General Catalyst.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Kauffman | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-kauffman-79f3 |
| Erin Schaefer | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erin-schaefer-d17c |
| Genevieve Kinney | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genevieve-kinney |
| Jeremy Goldstein | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeremy-goldstein-a6ab |
| Jim Baum | General Catalyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-baum |

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## FAQ

### What does Jim Baum invest in?

Jim Baum invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 11 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 Jim Baum last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jim Baum closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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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