Investing Profile

Aaron Jacobson(70)

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Partner at New Enterprise Associates
nea.com/team/aaron-jacobsonSan Francisco, California
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12 Investors

Connected to Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Adam Draper (Boost VC), Ian Rountree (Cantos Ventures), and 9 other investors on Signal.

Networks Aaron is a member of
NewCo Network
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Top-Patents Network
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Current Investing Position
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Partner
Investment Range
$2.0M - $50.0M
Sweet Spot
$25.0M
Investments On Record
30
Current Fund Size
$6.2B

Aaron Jacobson is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Aaron Jacobson's Investments On Record (20)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Firestorm
Series AJul 2025$35M
$130M
Co-investors: Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Brian Zaversnik (McCarthy Capital), Larsen Jensen (Harpoon), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Chris Moran (Lockheed Martin Ventures), Aly Walji (Sparq Capital (SFO))
Horizon3.ai
Series DMay 2025$100M
$280M
Co-investors: Ilya Kirnos (SignalFire), Kevin Gabura (Carrick Capital Partners), Alexander Rosen (Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA)), Alex Rosen (Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA)), Dorin Baniel (NightDragon)
Veza
Series DApr 2025$110M
$220M
Co-investors: Eric Wolford (Accel), Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures), Karim Faris (Google Ventures), Lars Dalgaard (Andreessen Horowitz), Matt Weigand (Accel), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Enrique Salem (Bain Capital Ventures), Jake Seid (Ballistic Ventures), Kevin Mandia (Ballistic Ventures), Rama Sekhar (Norwest Venture Partners), David Zilberman (Norwest Venture Partners), Dheeraj Pandey
DeltaStream
Series ASep 2024$15M
$15M
Second Front Systems
Series CSep 2024$70M
Series BNov 2023$40M
$150M
Co-investors: Michael Brown (Battery Ventures), Baron Cannon (Sand Hill Angels), Austin Walne (Artis Ventures (AV)), Robert Keith (Salesforce Ventures), Aaron Peterman
Martian
SeedNov 2023$9M
$12M
Co-investors: Ramnik Arora (FTX Ventures), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst)
Pulumi
Series COct 2023$41M
Series BOct 2020$38M
$99M
Co-investors: Somar Somasegar (Madrona Ventures), Sheila Gulati (Tola Capital)
Embrace
Series UnknownJul 2023$20M
Series BOct 2021$45M
$78M
Co-investors: Vic Singh (ENIAC Ventures), Nihal Mehta (ENIAC Ventures), Hadley Harris (ENIAC Ventures), Tim Young (ENIAC Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Gabe Greenbaum (B Capital Group), Jared Heyman (Pioneer Fund), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Alex Mittal (FundersClub), Baris Aksoy (AV8 Ventures), Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Dana Settle (Greycroft Partners), Gokul Rajaram (Top-Patents), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), David Brown (Zintinus), Eric Del Balso (Kohala Ventures), Brad Zions (Pitbull Ventures), Shamin Walsh (BAM VENTURES LLC), Tx Zhuo (Fika Ventures), Kevin Weatherman (Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)), Jim Andelman (Bonfire Ventures), Paul Bricault (Amplify.LA), Geoff Judge (iNovia Capital), Clark Landry (CESPPA), David Cohen (Techstars), Ashish Bhatia, Ryan Chan, Dan Wright, Trevor Wright, Jon Runyan

most interested in

AI / ML, Microservices and Devops, Cybersecurity, Industrial AI / Automation and Robotics

not interested in

eCommerce, Adtech, Healthcare

Aaron Jacobson's Experience

Director Veza2025 - Present
Director Firestorm2024 - Present
Director Second Front Systems2023 - Present
Investor Martian2023 - Present
Director flox2023 - Present
Director CoreStory2022 - Present
Director Embrace2021 - Present
Director DeltaStream, Inc.2020 - Present
Director Pulumi Corporation2020 - Present
Participating VC VC OpenDoor2020 - Present
Director Outrider2018 - Present
Investor Built Robotics2017 - Present
Director Juvo2017 - Present
Director Tigera2016 - Present
Board Observer Databricks2014 - Present
Partner New Enterprise Associates (NEA)2011 - Present
Director FloxPresent
Director CrowdboticsPresent
Director Rapid Robotics, IncPresent
Director ForAllSecure, IncPresent
Board Observer Built RoboticsPresent
Director Illusive NetworksPresent
Board Observer StreamsetsPresent
Summer Intern AlcatelPresent
Participating VC NewCoPresent
Summer Business Analyst NewCoPresent
Research Assistant NewCoPresent
Participating VC Top-PatentsPresent
Summer Business Analyst Top-PatentsPresent
Research Assistant Top-PatentsPresent
Director Second FrontPresent
Director DeltaStreamPresent
Participating VC Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent
Director IllusivePresent
Board Observer NginxPresent
Summer Intern NokiaPresent
Summer Business Analyst Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent
Research Assistant Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent
Board Observer Horizon3.aiPresent
Participating VC IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Summer Business Analyst IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Research Assistant IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Participating VC Cocoon VenturesPresent
Summer Business Analyst Cocoon VenturesPresent
Research Assistant Cocoon VenturesPresent
Investor FactoryPresent
Director Rapid Robotics, incPresent
Participating VC Robyn FrankelPresent
Participating VC University of Pennsylvania - Kod*labPresent
Director Mayhem2018 - 2025
Director illusive networks2015 - 2022
Board Observer StreamSets2015 - 2022
Board Observer NGINX, Inc.2013 - 2019
Analyst Qatalyst Partners2009 - 2011
Summer Intern Alcatel-Lucent2008 - 2008
Investment Banking Summer Analyst Lehman Brothers2008 - 2008
Fixed Income Intern WisdomTree Asset Management2008 - 2008
Summer Business Analyst Sandbox Innovations2007 - 2007
Research Assistant University of Pennsylvania - Kod*lab2006 - 2006

Aaron Jacobson's Education

University of Pennsylvania B.S. in Engineering Electrical Engineering
The Wharton School B.S. in Economics Management