MJ

Matt Jacobus

Managing Director at Two Sigma Ventures

Brooklyn, New York

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $4,000,000.00

Skills

Equities
Software Engineering
Hedge Funds
High Frequency Trading
Trading Systems
Distributed Systems
Software Development
Alternative Investments
Cloud Computing
Strategy
Algorithms
Low Latency
Equity Derivatives

Education

Lists including Matt

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Based in NYC

2600 people

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All Series A Investors

14752 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

Investments

Comet

Seed

Total Funding: $70M

Firedome

Series A

Total Funding: $10M

Work Experience

TS
Two Sigma Ventures

2016

  • Venture Partner

    2016

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Two Sigma Investments

2003

  • Managing Director

    2003

    At various times, technology manager, chief architect, and CTO, building trading systems, distributed computation frameworks, distributed storage systems, and event streaming systems.

Opticality Ventures

2000 - 2003

  • Vice President

    2000 - 2003

    After making vc investments, worked with and advised portfolio companies on business and technology strategy. Ran engineering, managed teams, wrote sales proposals, and generally collaborated with many talented founders and leaders.

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UBS

1995 - 1998

  • Vice President

    1995 - 1998

    Designed and developed highly parallel real time systems for trading equity derivatives. Our group was uncommonly innovative within investment banking.

Objective Technologies

1990 - 1995

  • Director of Engineering

    1990 - 1995

    Led the development of 5 innovative software development products for NeXT computers. Built equity and energy trading systems to fund the product development. Worked crazy hours, designing and coding with a sharp, tight team.