# Jure Leskovec

> Jure Leskovec is a seed investor backing Big Data and Information Technology. See 4 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Stanford, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leskovec
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jure
- Website: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/index.html

Jure Leskovec is a seed investor in Stanford focused on Big Data and Information Technology. Jure Leskovec is chief scientist at Pinterest and associate professor of computer science at Stanford University. Jure’s research focuses on computation over massive data and has applications in computer science, social sciences, economics, marketing, and healthcare. This research has won several awards including a Lagrange Prize, MicrosoftResearch Faculty Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and numerous best paper awards. Jure holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University and undertook postdoctoral training at Cornell University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 2 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 50% |
| Shopping | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coactive AI | Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data. Coactive AI brings unstructured data and assists analysts in making image and video data useful. Providing unprecedented insights, ease of use, and lightning-fast speeds. | $10.4M | Series A | Mar 21, 2023 | https://coactive.ai |
| Coactive AI | Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data. Coactive AI brings unstructured data and assists analysts in making image and video data useful. Providing unprecedented insights, ease of use, and lightning-fast speeds. | $3.6M | Seed | Mar 01, 2023 | https://coactive.ai |
| Price.com | Price.com develops a money savings platform used for comparison shopping, cashback, coupons, price history, and price alerts.The platform provides a free cross-platform experience for consumers. Its patented, AI-powered matching algorithm enables real-time discovery of new, white-label, used, local, refurbished, and rental products, takingcomparison shopping to new heights. Price.com is available as a desktop and mobile website, browser extension, native app, and chatbot.RJ Rain founded Price.com in San Francisco, California in 2016. | $10M | Seed | Mar 31, 2021 | https://price.com |
| Titan | Top 1% coaches for top 1% performers.Titan matches VC-backed founders with world-leading executive coaches and performance psychologists to maximize their performance - and the performance of their business.We have raised $5.7mm from top executives at Google, PayPal, Lyft, and AirBnB and investors who previously funded Square, Instacart,Twilio, GrubHub, StitchFix, OpenDoor, and SpaceX.You can learn more about Titan here: https://www.withtitan.com/ | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Oct 21, 2020 | https://www.awarehc.com/ |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Exceptional Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exceptional-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Next Play Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-world-capital-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Jure Leskovec invest in?

Jure Leskovec invests primarily in Big Data, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Jure Leskovec last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jure Leskovec closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 4 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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