Jake Seid
Jake Seid is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Ballistic Ventures. He has a unique combination of operating and investing experience, which supports founders as they grow their businesses. Previously, as sole founder of Stone Bridge Ventures, 12 of his early-stage investments grew to become unicorn companies. Prior to that, he was president ofTenX/Auction. With 800 people in his reporting org, he grew the real estate-focused transactional online marketplace to be the industry’s leading platform. The company was acquired for $1.6B. Jake started his tenure in venture capital as a member of the team that launched Lightspeed Venture Partners and became a key Managing Director helping drive the firm’s early growth. Early on, he was a Cisco product lead for the team that commercialized broadband technology, helping the group grow from startup to a $1B revenue run rate in 2 years and drove many important cybersecurity-focused innovations into his products. He holds an BS in Electrical Engineering and an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. At MIT, he was awarded the Karly Taylor Compton Prize, the highest honor given to a student. He is a long-serving board member of the MIT Club of Northern California. In 2009, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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Experience

Ballistic Ventures · Full-time
Co-Founder and General Partner
Dec 2021 - Present
Abnormal Security
Investor
Jan 2020 - Present
Veza · Full-time
Investor
2020 - Present
Drata
Investor
May 2021 - Present
Talon Cyber Security · Full-time
Investor
2021 - Present
Netskope
Investor
2018 - Present
Offchain Labs
Investor
2018 - Present
Cresta
Investor
2020 - Present
Brex
Investor
2017 - Present
People.ai
Investor
2016 - Present
Zipline
Investor
2011 - Present
Stone Bridge Ventures
Founder and Managing Director
2015 - Present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Member of the Board of Directors, MIT Club of Northern California
Sep 2015 - Present
Auction.com and Ten-X.com
Advisory Board Member
Sep 2015 - Sep 2017
Auction.com and Ten-X.com
President
Aug 2011 - Aug 2015
Young Global Leader
World Economic Forum
2009 - 2014
MIT/Stanford Venture Lab ( VLAB)
Board of Directors
Aug 2007 - Sep 2011
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Managing Director
Jul 2000 - Aug 2011
Cisco Systems
Product Manager
Aug 1998 - Jul 2000

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS | Electrical Engineering; Minor in Economics
1998
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M. Eng | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
1998

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