Jim Goetz
Partner @ Sequoia Capital
Menlo Park, United States
Jim Goetz is a Series B investor at Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park focused on Software and Mobile. Jim Goetz is the Partner and Founder of Casimir Holdings.
- Total investments:
- 45
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries Jim Goetz invests in
Stages Jim Goetz invests in
Countries Jim Goetz invests in
Contacts
| Type | Contact | Validation |
|---|---|---|
| Work email | ||
| Personal email | ||
| Work phone | ||
| Personal phone | ||
| Socials |
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (27%)
- Mobile 5 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (11%)
- Apps 4 (9%)
- SaaS 4 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 12 (27%)
- Series A 10 (22%)
- Series C 5 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (11%)
- Seed 3 (7%)
Country
- United States 23 (51%)
- Kenya 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon brings together innovations in software, hardware, and molecular science to deliver industry-leading digital manufacturing solutions. With proprietary Carbon Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) technology and family of programmable liquid resins, manufacturers can unlock new business opportunities such as mass customization, on-demand inventory,and previously impossible product designs. The Carbon Platform allows customers to build uniquely differentiated products while reducing waste and speeding time to market.Carbon was founded by Dr. Joseph DeSimone and Philip DeSimone in 2013. | $60M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| SmartIrrigate is an AI-driven precision agriculture platform designed to optimize irrigation decisions for modern farming. The platform integrates satellite imagery, IoT soil sensors, and real-time climate data to deliver predictive irrigation recommendations that improve water-use efficiency, crop yield, and sustainability. By leveraging machinelearning and GPU-accelerated analytics, SmartIrrigate enables farmers to make data-driven irrigation decisions at field and sub-field levels. The system continuously analyzes soil moisture, weather forecasts, and crop growth patterns to determine when, where, and how much to irrigate. SmartIrrigate addresses one of agriculture’s most critical challenges: inefficient water usage. With increasing climate variability and water scarcity, the platform empowers growers to reduce water waste, lower operational costs, and enhance productivity. The solution is designed for scalability across smallholder farms and large-scale commercial agriculture, making it applicable in both developed and emerging markets. | $2M / Series A / Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| r2c operates as a software security startup. r2c make modern static analysis tools built for CI/CD. | $100M / Series D / Feb 05, 2025 | ||
| Observable provides a data visualization platform for developers, data scientists, journalists, and educators to explore, analyze, and visualize data on the web together. It enables users to create complex graphs, charts, and other visual representations of data. The platform empowers creators to further their learning through data visualizationand gain deep insights. The company is helping organizations make decisions with data, including teams at Stitch Fix and classes at MIT that are working in Observable every day. | $35.6M / Series B / Jan 13, 2022 | ||
| r2c operates as a software security startup. r2c make modern static analysis tools built for CI/CD. | $27M / Series B / Jul 07, 2021 | ||
| VirtuousAI develops and deploys artificial intelligence that is explainable, equitable, and precise. It provides companies with a complete Ethical AI solution with features include AI bias monitoring, feature contribution, and alerts so that clients can debug and understand models to educate and communicate with their team and customers. | $500K / Seed / Feb 24, 2021 | ||
| Observable provides a data visualization platform for developers, data scientists, journalists, and educators to explore, analyze, and visualize data on the web together. It enables users to create complex graphs, charts, and other visual representations of data. The platform empowers creators to further their learning through data visualizationand gain deep insights. The company is helping organizations make decisions with data, including teams at Stitch Fix and classes at MIT that are working in Observable every day. | $10.5M / Series A / Nov 20, 2020 | ||
| r2c operates as a software security startup. r2c make modern static analysis tools built for CI/CD. | $13M / Series A / Oct 29, 2020 | ||
| Neeva is an ad-free, private search engine that helps its users find exactly what matters to them. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | $37.5M / Series A / Jun 22, 2020 | ||
| Limbix is a prescription digital therapeutic company passionate about creating mental health treatments for adolescents. The Limbix team is uniquely suited to develop prescription digital therapeutics, as its diverse team of clinicians, product designers, researchers, and engineers understand the value of pairing clinical expertise withtechnological innovation. Their first digital therapeutic, SparkRx by Limbix, is available for licensed healthcare professionals to offer to patients nationwide. For more information about Limbix and SparkRx, please visit limbix.com and SparkRx.com. | $9M / Series A / May 05, 2020 | ||
| See all 45 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital provides capital alongside strategic guidance, supporting areas such as product development, company building, and market expansion. The firm engages with a limited number of companies at a time, working closely with leadership teams throughout the business lifecycle. Sequoia Capital focuses on long-term partnerships, often entering at the idea or formation stage and remaining involved as companies scale and mature. Its approach emphasizes collaboration among its internal team and portfolio founders, drawing on shared experience to address operational and strategic challenges.
Sequoia Capital Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Anas Biad
Partner
|
|||
Andrew Lee
Vice President
|
|||
Carl Eschenbach
Partner
|
|||
Caroline Fu
Vice President
|
|||
Donald Valentine
Founder
|
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Similar stage
Recommended lists
FAQ
What does Jim Goetz invest in?
Jim Goetz invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B 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.
How do I contact Jim Goetz?
Public channels for Jim Goetz include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
When did Jim Goetz last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jim Goetz closed in Nov 2025. 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.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
