Navigating Startup Funding Dilemmas

Aaron Jacobson is a Partner at NEA. He seeks to partner with founders building generational companies in AI, developer tools, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and robotics. His current investments include Databricks, Second Front, Pulumi, Martian, Flox, Crowdbotics, Embrace, Deltastream, Rapid Robotics, Built Robotics, Outrider, Tigera, and ForAllSecure. Previous investments include Box (NYSE:BOX), NGINX (acq. by F5), Streamsets (acq. by Software AG), and Illusive Networks (acq. by Proofpoint). In 2016 he was named to Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” in Venture Capital and the Silicon Valley Business Journal's "40 Under 40".Aaron graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Electrical Engineering, and carried a minor in Math.Topics:

• Enterprise AI Infrastructure Evolution
• Next wave of industrial robotics
• Enterprise Security Architecture

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