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Jacob Smith

Partner | VC | Early-stage Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2024

  • Investor & Board Observer

    2024

    AI-Powered home health RCM, coding, and OASIS QR platform

2022

  • Investor

    2022

    AI-native biotech harnessing self-supervised learning and spatial biology to discover better precision immunotherapies

2021

  • Investor

    2021

    Leveraging advanced rocket engine technology to convert waste into clean energy and fresh water, while permanently removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Founded by former SpaceX engineers.

2020

  • Investor & Board Observer

    2020

    Research platform which is embedded across a global network of healthcare institutions, researchers can rapidly access and prospectively engage with patients to generate insights derived from the decentralised collection of electronic health records, clinical outcomes, patient-reported data and biosamples

2021

  • Investor & Board Member (Acquired by Medical Solutions)

    2021

    Leveraging AI, data-science, and software to build the future healthcare workforce

  • Principal

    2020

    Early stage investor in data-driven health, techbio, and climate tech Board Member: Matchwell Board Observer: uMed, Hinge Health Investor: Arbor - Carbon sequestration / energy startup founded by former SpaceX engineers Noetik - AI-native biotech harnessing self-supervised learning to discover better precision immunotherapies

2018 - 2023

  • Venture Advisor

    2020 - 2023

  • Principal

    2018 - 2020

    30Ventures is an early-stage healthcare and biotechnology venture capital firm focused on high-potential, capital-efficient companies. 30Ventures partners with founders at the Series A/B stage located in undercapitalized geographies, developing innovations that can impact human healthcare. Main focus areas: Digital Health (Digital Therapeutics, AI/ML, SaaS), MedTech and Precision Medicine

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2023

  • Consultant at Business and Entrepreneurship Clinic

    2017 - 2018

    - Led consulting project with a Fortune 500 insurance company on their venture capital and M&A strategy - Led consulting project with technology transfer office managing a +$3B endowment on vetting viable technologies to fund and spin out into companies - Advised 30+ startups associated with the University - Assisted teaching Venture Creation to 20+ aspiring undergraduate entrepreneurs - Completed a thesis on first-time VC fund construction in the Midwest