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Jason Franklin

Jason Franklin

AI/DeepTech Investor, Formerly investor at a16z, Stanford CS, CMU CS Ph.D., Allen Newell Award Winner

United StatesComputer Software
Company
Andreessen Horowitz
Title
Limited Partner
Seniority
C Suite
Department
Master Information Technology
Location
United States
Industry
Computer Software

About

I've spent the last 20 years researching, developing and investing in deep technology and AI. During my 10+ year career in venture capital I have invested in category defining companies including: Shield AI, Kong, Instabase, Isovalent, Deepmap, StackRox, and many others. These have resulted in multiple nine figure exits to industry giants including NVIDIA, Microsoft, Cisco, Splunk and Red Hat. I'm currently the founding managing partner of WVV Capital.

Experience

Ceo and Founding Managing Director

WV Ventures

Present

Proud to lead a $100M venture fund backed by Global 100 and Fortune 500 corporate partners including Advocate Health, Foxconn, Johnson Controls and Northwestern Mutual. Read about how we're reinventing VC for the Age of AI at wvvcapital.com. Investors in AI leaders including: Vectara, Lutra.ai, Paxton.ai, Raeden, TabbyML and many others.

Limited Partner

Andreessen Horowitz · Menlo Park

Present

Investor in Fund V

Deal Team Partner

Andreessen Horowitz · Menlo Park, CA

Deal Team Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where I worked on enterprise investments. I worked with and sat on the boards of some of the world's fastest growing and most innovative enterprise startups. Investments include: Shield AI, Instabase, Kong, Covalent, DeepMap, SigOpt, RapidAPI, and SkySafe.

Investor

Vectara

Present

Seed Investor

Paxton

Present

Seed Investor

Lutra AI

Present

Seed Investor

RAEDEN

Present

Advisory Board Member

UW-Madison N+1 Institute · Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Present

Enabling the Future of the Web

Investor

Apex.AI, Inc.

Present

Investor in leading provider of safe and certified autonomy software.

Investor

Primer.ai

Present

Investor in leading Generative AI startup.

Investor

StackRox · San Francisco Bay Area

Acquired by Red Hat.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D., Computer Science

Stanford University

Post Doctoral Researcher/Visiting Lecturer, Computer Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison

BS, Computer Science and Mathematics

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