Brian Jacobs

Who is Brian Jacobs?

Brian Jacobs is a Founder and General Partner of Emergence. He has

over 18 years of venture capital experience, a deep national network

and broad experience helping both consumer and business-oriented

startups achieve their business goals. Prior to founding Emergence,

Brian was an early General Partner at St. Paul Venture Capital. During

his 10 years at St. Paul, Mr. Jacobs helped to grow the firm to one of

the 15 largest venture investors in the country and led the Silicon

Valley investing activities. His prior venture capital experience was

with Security Pacific Venture Capital. Mr. Jacobs also worked for the

Raychem Corporation, where he developed and marketed advanced software

and electronic components. In addition, he has engineering and new

product experience with RCA, Westinghouse, and Polaroid; and he holds

several patents.

In January 2006, he was named to

the Forbes’ Midas List of the top venture capital investors. He is an

experienced board member who has served on dozens of public and private

boards. He currently serves on the boards of Visage Mobile, Krugle,

Intacct and DVDPlay.

Mr. Jacobs has a strong reputation for helping entrepreneurs build

innovative technology-enabled service companies. Mr. Jacobs has been an

active investor in WebTV (Microsoft), HireRight, BigFix and NextCard

(NXCD). In addition, Mr. Jacobs has invested in a broad variety of

technology companies, such as nQuire Software (Siebel Systems),

Microchip Technologies (MCHP), NetPerceptions (NETP), Cloudscape

(Informix) and Lexar Media (LEXR), where he led the initial venture

capital round and lead the board through its billion dollar sale to

Micron Technology.

Mr. Jacobs has a MS and BS in mechanical engineering from M.I.T. and an

MBA from Stanford. He is happily married with two children. He enjoys

international travel and scuba diving.