Lee Jacobs
Founder and General Partner @ Long Journey Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Lee Jacobs is a seed investor at Long Journey Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Lee is the founder and general partner of Long Journey Ventures. He has backed companies like Loom, COMP, Crusoe Energy, Mindbloom, Grove Collaborative, Rappi, Checkr, from their early days.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Lee Jacobs invests in
Stages Lee Jacobs invests in
Countries Lee Jacobs invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (32%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (24%)
- Information Technology 5 (20%)
- FinTech 3 (12%)
- Analytics 3 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (64%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (12%)
- Series A 3 (12%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
- Funding Round 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 17 (68%)
- Sweden 1 (4%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Minerva Humanoids designs and develops humanoid telepresence robotic systems to execute high-risk tasks requiring human involvement. | $10M / Pre-Seed / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| OuterSignal provides AI-driven data enrichment and customer intelligence tailored to ecommerce and digital brands. The platform attaches 100+ demographic, professional, and behavioral signals to each customer record, drawing from publicly available sources such as social profiles, employment data, and online presence. OuterSignal builds detailed personas from this enriched data to help brands segment audiences, identify high-value buyers, and tailor messaging. The product integrates with tools like Slack and Klaviyo so sales, marketing, and lifecycle teams receive alerts and profiles directly in their existing workflows. Use cases include enhancing email lists, personalizing campaigns, prioritizing outreach, and refining lookalike audiences based on real customer attributes. | $22M / Series A / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| Eragon is an AI Operating System built for companies to analyze business, connecting data, people, and processes into a single workspace. | $12M / Seed / Mar 18, 2026 | ||
| Foundy is an end-to-end marketplace for full and secondary M&A for tech startups. JP Lewin's first-hand experience building and exiting his last tech marketplace startup provided him insight into the unnecessary inefficiencies, complexities and costs of running an M&A process. Now, using his mission-driven passion for modernising thisprocess alongside an injection of £1.25m in initial funding led by marketplace focussed VC, Fuel Ventures, JP and his team are completely modernising the M&A industry for tech startups. Foundy.com offers startups the opportunity to seamlessly connect with relevant buyers and M&A advisors as well as access the latest knowledge, tips and tools at minimal cost, hassle and time. Educational podcasts, blogs and tutorials as well as an M&A advisory directory and a valuation calculator amongst other resources are examples of ways in which Foundy strives to help founders and respective buyers to complete rewarding deals time and cost-effectively. We are extremely excited to be launching a range of products in 2022/3. We welcome you to sign up as a seller or buyer or join our newsletter via foundy.com. Feel free to reach out if you are a prospective investor or journalist interested in working with Foundy. Stay tuned. | $750K / Seed / Mar 06, 2026 | ||
| The Compression Company allows operators to send more useable data, save money on storage and transmission, and deliver information more quickly by directly reducing file sizes on the satellite without sacrificing accuracy or usability. | $3.4M / Pre-Seed / Feb 12, 2026 | ||
| Numeric is an AI-native accounting automation platform designed to streamline and accelerate the month-end close process. It centralizes transaction data from ERPs, bank feeds, CSVs, and more, enabling real-time visibility into financial operations. Numeric automates account reconciliations, journal entries, and flux variance explanations byleveraging machine learning and AI. It provides a task-management workflow to manage close items, while its Analytics Suite supports detailed variance reporting, anomaly detection, and management reporting. The platform also supports cash management through automated matching of bank transactions to ledger entries. Numeric’s system aims to reduce manual accounting work, improve control, and surface meaningful financial insights. | $51M / Series B / Nov 19, 2025 | ||
| Numeric is an AI-native accounting automation platform designed to streamline and accelerate the month-end close process. It centralizes transaction data from ERPs, bank feeds, CSVs, and more, enabling real-time visibility into financial operations. Numeric automates account reconciliations, journal entries, and flux variance explanations byleveraging machine learning and AI. It provides a task-management workflow to manage close items, while its Analytics Suite supports detailed variance reporting, anomaly detection, and management reporting. The platform also supports cash management through automated matching of bank transactions to ledger entries. Numeric’s system aims to reduce manual accounting work, improve control, and surface meaningful financial insights. | $28M / Series A / Oct 10, 2024 | ||
| Unprecedented insights into your health data | $6M / Seed / Jun 12, 2024 | ||
| Numeric is an AI-native accounting automation platform designed to streamline and accelerate the month-end close process. It centralizes transaction data from ERPs, bank feeds, CSVs, and more, enabling real-time visibility into financial operations. Numeric automates account reconciliations, journal entries, and flux variance explanations byleveraging machine learning and AI. It provides a task-management workflow to manage close items, while its Analytics Suite supports detailed variance reporting, anomaly detection, and management reporting. The platform also supports cash management through automated matching of bank transactions to ledger entries. Numeric’s system aims to reduce manual accounting work, improve control, and surface meaningful financial insights. | $10M / Seed / May 07, 2024 | ||
| Peak provides API software that supports online child safety and helps fight child exploitation. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in New York, New York. | $3.3M / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Long Journey Ventures
Long Journey Ventures focuses on identifying outliers and unique market opportunities that challenge standard industry norms across various sectors. Its investment strategy prioritizes long-term financial returns for limited partners by maintaining disciplined stewardship of capital. The firm offers a personalized support model for its portfolio companies, incorporating direct communication and community-building events to assist with business development. By emphasizing individual autonomy and creative problem-solving, the entity seeks to empower entrepreneurs who are building complex or non-traditional platforms.
Long Journey Ventures Contacts
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Jonathan Bruck
Venture Partner
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Lee Jacobs
Founder and General Partner
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Pascal Levy-Garboua
Venture Partner
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Arielle Zuckerberg
General Partner
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Brian Balfour
Venture Partner
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What does Lee Jacobs invest in?
Lee Jacobs invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 25 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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The most recent investment recorded for Lee Jacobs closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 25 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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