Jake Jolis

Jake Jolis invests in early-stage technology companies as a general partner at Zeno. He previously invested at Matrix, founded the language-learning company Verbling and built the voice AI project Answering Machine.

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Based in: San Francisco
Elsewhere

Zeno

Dec 2025 — Present

General Partner

Matrix

Nov 2017 — Jun 2024

Partner

Verbling

CEO
Jul 2013 — Jun 2017
Cofounder
Jun 2011 — Jun 2017

Stanford University

Y Combinator

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Build Machine, Big Boss. Rent Machine, No Boss.

Jake Jolis examines how access to AI tools could change the balance between large firms and independent, high-touch service businesses.

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Jake Jolis

Zeno

Matrix

Verbling

CEO

Cofounder

Stanford University

Y Combinator

Products & media

Build Machine, Big Boss. Rent Machine, No Boss.

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