Jacob Mullins
Jacob Mullins

Jacob Mullins

Partner at Shasta Ventures investing in Smart Software: Applied AI, Computer Vision, Blockchain, and Financial Services.

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Financial inclusion, dare I say Inclusive Capitalism

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about financial inclusion. We are feeling the daily effects of a growing wealth divide caused by…

Mar 7, 2019 · 6 min read

Leading Threekit’s Series A — the future of visual e-commerce

On behalf of Shasta Ventures, I am beyond thrilled to announce that we led the $20M Series A of Threekit, the future of product…

Nov 14, 2019 · 4 min read

Investing in Layer1 — US Bitcoin mining

Today on behalf Shasta Ventures, I am excited to announce our investment in Layer1, a US-based commercial Bitcoin mining operation founded…

Oct 16, 2019 · 2 min read

Welcome to the Mirrorworld & why it matters

The Mirrorworld — as described by Kevin Kelly in this month’s Wired magazine cover story, which I highly recommend reading — is a detailed…

Feb 27, 2019 · 5 min read

What it takes to raise a Series A in San Francisco right now

Every day I talk with entrepreneurs raising a Series A. And as an entrepreneur, myself who has raised venture capital, I want to do my…

Feb 1, 2019 · 8 min read

Jacob Mullins Newsletter #1: 2019 — “Smart cards, smart cars, all smart everything”

It’s 2019. Issue #1. I’m starting an email newsletter (sign up here!), a snapshot weekly perspective on tech, startups, venture capital…

Jan 16, 2019 · 4 min read

Thrilled to invest in BigBox VR , building the future of Esports in Virtual Reality

I am incredibly excited to share that Shasta Ventures has led a $5M round in BigBox VR, and I will be joining the Board of Directors.

Nov 8, 2018 · 3 min read

Announcing Shasta’s investment in Unblockable

I’m thrilled to announce Shasta Ventures investment in Unblockable, where I will be joining the Board of Directors. Unblockable is building…

Jun 28, 2018 · 2 min read

Inside the room at Multicoin Capital’s Investor Summit; a snapshot of the current blockchain market…

Last Wednesday, I spent the day at the annual meeting for Multicoin Capital. Multicoin Capital is one of the more active and visible…

May 8, 2018 · 7 min read

Blurred lines between digital and physical reality; Lil Miquela goes heart to heart after hack by…

Just happened across this post by Lil Miquela, a digital representation of a woman on Instagram; she is not real. But read her posts…

Apr 21, 2018 · 2 min read

Announcing 6D.ai + Shasta Camera Fund — Building the AR Cloud to enable the digital world around us

6D.ai is the augmented reality platform that brings the detail of persistence and shared interactions to life, and at Shasta we are…

Mar 30, 2018 · 3 min read

Investing in 8thWall — the modern platform for building #CameraFirst Mobile AR

Today I’m excited to announce Shasta’s investment in 8th Wall, as a part of our Shasta Camera Fund initiative! 8th Wall is the modern…

Feb 6, 2018 · 2 min read

Inventing the Camera Experience Manager — thrilled to announce Shasta’s investment in Camera IQ

Today, on behalf of Shasta Ventures, I’m thrilled to announce our leading investment in Camera IQ, where I have joined the Board of…

Sep 13, 2017 · 2 min read

“Off The Record” on AR & VR at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017

I’m excited to join a strong panel of AR & VR experts to discuss the real opportunities and challenges that we are facing as these new…

Sep 1, 2017 · 2 min read

Join us for ARKitchen: Cooking up product concepts around Apple’s new ARKit

I couldn’t be more excited about the huge advances happening in the Camera right now, and the developer platforms surrounding it, Facebook…

Jul 12, 2017 · 2 min read

The Great Camera Awakening — the incredible opportunities emerging in Computer Vision, at the…

TLDR; For the past two centuries the camera has been primarily a tool of capturing photographic record, in the next decade it will be the…

Jul 10, 2017 · 4 min read

Joining Kauffman Fellows Class 22

I’m super excited to join the Kauffman Fellows as a part of Class 22!

Jun 14, 2017 · 2 min read

Augmented Reality in Industry — SF event, May 31

While much of the recent excitement in VR/AR focuses on consumer applications, let us not forget the incredible potential value locked…

May 22, 2017 · 3 min read

Nascent VR Ecosystem, Just Add Water: VR Investor Education, Feb 8 in SF

The VR industry is young. Many of us see incredible promise in this platform of “Digital Realities,” including Virtual Reality, Augmented…

Feb 1, 2017 · 2 min read

VR + AI: the very real reality of virtual artificial intelligence

TLDR; Virtual Reality can be immersive and fun, but add natural deep Artificial Intelligence and you quite literally get a new world which…

Jan 25, 2017 · 3 min read