Karl Jacob
Angel Investor · Karl Jacob
Karl Jacob is an active angel investor who primarily targets **early-stage** (pre-seed and seed) technology companies, with a distinctive thesis focused on **fintech**, **artificial intelligence**, **SaaS**, and **real estate technology** [2][4]. His investment check sizes typically range from **5,000 to 50,000**, though he has participated in larger seed rounds such as Boomerang's $3M raise…
- Focus: Mr. Karl Jacob serves as the Managing Partner at Elixir Fund. He co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Hangtime. Karl is a serial entrepreneur and has been building and advising companies for the last 18 years. He also worked as a manager at Sun Microsystems and an executive at Microsoft. In his career, Jacob raised over 00 million from prestigious investors like Amerindo, Microsoft, eBay, Integral Partners, Norwest Ventures, Bay Partners, Benchmark Capital, Deutsche Bank, Ignition Partners, Vulcan Ventures and others. He started four companies from no revenue to significant revenues or being acquired. One of his companies, Dimension X, was acquired by Microsoft in 1997, and another, Keen (now Ingenio), was acquired by AT&T in 2007. Companies with Jacob as CEO have generated over $300 million in returns to investors and over
