JL

Jesse Leimgruber

Founder | Thiel Fellow | 30u30

San Francisco Bay Area

Angel

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

SEO
Start-ups
Influencer Marketing
Web Development
JavaScript
E-commerce
Web Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Social Media Marketing
WordPress
Link Building
Internet Marketing
Social Media
Digital Marketing
Web Analytics
Photoshop
MySQL
Graphic Design
CSS
Statistics

Education

Investments

Knot

Seed

Total Funding: $13M

Millions

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Huddles

Angel

Total Funding: $4.9M

Superpeer

Seed

Total Funding: $10M

Work Experience

OpenHome

2024

  • Co-Founder - CTO

    2024

    AI Smart Speaker

NeoReach

2014

  • Co-Founder

    2014

    We sell data to the big social networks and we were hired to lead the US launch of TikTok in 2017.

Alchemist Accelerator

2017

  • Partner / Startup Advisor

    2017

Bloom Protocol

2017 - 2023

  • Co-Founder

    2017 - 2023

    Developer SDK - Bloom solves the problem of companies selling your data. Secured a deal to sell the tech to a national government in Asia to rebuild their national ID system.

Thiel Capital

2016 - 2018

  • Thiel Fellow

    2016 - 2018

    Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people who want to build new things. Thiel Fellows skip or stop out of college to receive a $100,000 grant and support from the Thiel Foundation’s network of founders, investors, and scientists.

Rage Hats

2011 - 2015

  • Founder

    2011 - 2015

    I built RageHats in highschool. We sold over 100,000 neon hats and scaled to $50k/month in revenue when I was still 16

Rank Executives

2012 - 2015

  • Founder

    2012 - 2015

    Consulted for Nissan, Phillips, and dozens of small businesses. Started in highschool and ran throughout Stanford. At one point employed a full time team of 20 while I was still a college freshman.