# Jazz Venture Partners: portfolio, investments and team

> Jazz Venture Partners is a vc firm based in United States. 11 investments on record, latest Jul 2023. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/jazz-venture-partners (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Jazz Venture Partners

Last cheque observed Jul 2023. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds.

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VC firm Quiet Last fund $12M, May 2021

Seed Series A Series B Technology Science Human Performance

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Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 11 on record

Since the last cheque **1193** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$17M** Cheque size, as they say **$100K – $20M** Rounds led **1 of 11** Exits **1 from the portfolio** Mostly in **United States, 100%**

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## Jazz Venture Partners highlights

- 01 11 rounds on record
- 02 Mostly Series B and Series A: 80% of its rounds
- 03 Led 1 rounds
- 04 1 exits from the portfolio

## What they do

> JAZZ seeks breakthroughs at the convergence of technology, science, and humanity, improving how we live, work, and experience the world. From their own website

- **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** $100K – $20M as they say
- **Stages:** Seed Series A Series B Growth
- **Sectors:** Technology Science Human Performance
- **Based in:** San Francisco, United States
- **Cold pitches:** Not accepted

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **11 appearances**

- **2023** 1 round
- **Jul** **[HerMD](https://millionrounds.com/company/hermd)** Series A · US · Amboy Street **$18M** With 2 others
- **2019** 2 rounds
- **Oct** **[Cadence Neurosciences](https://millionrounds.com/company/cadence-neurosciences)** Series A · US · FinSMEs **$15M** *Led*
- **Aug** **[NextStep](https://millionrounds.com/company/nextstep)** US · FinSMEs **$3.0M** With 6 others
- **2018** 4 rounds
- **Sept** **[Pymetrics](https://millionrounds.com/company/pymetrics)** Series B · US · FinSMEs **$40M** With 3 others
- **May** **[Akili](https://millionrounds.com/company/akili)** Series C · US · FinSMEs **$55M** With 4 others
- **Jan** **[Halo Neuroscience](https://millionrounds.com/company/halo-neuroscience)** Series B · US · FinSMEs **$13M** With 2 others
- **Jan** **[Pear Therapeutics](https://millionrounds.com/company/pear-therapeutics)** Series C · US · Businesswire **$64M** With 5 others
- **2017** 3 rounds
- **Sept** **[Augment](https://millionrounds.com/company/augment)** Series A · US · FinSMEs **$5.0M** With 1 other
- **May** **[Aira](https://millionrounds.com/company/aira)** Series B · US · FinSMEs **$12M** With 4 others
- **Jan** **[Pear Therapeutics](https://millionrounds.com/company/pear-therapeutics)** Series B · US · FinSMEs **$50M** With 5 others
- **2015** 1 round
- **Nov** **[Eyefluence](https://millionrounds.com/company/eyefluence)** Series B · US **$14M** With 3 others

An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.

## The team

Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration **6 named**

AD **Andrew David Firlik** Managing Director i Filing they signed

JB **John Byron Spinale** Managing Director i Filing they signed

JF **John Frederick Harris** Managing Director i Filing they signed

ZL **Zach Lynch** Managing Director i Filing they signed

ZJ **Zachary Joseph Lynch** Managing Member i Form ADV

ZL **Zack Lynch** Managing Director i Filing they signed

We also hold **12** people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.

## What the register says

From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law

**$1.1B** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026

**Exempt** reporting adviser venture or small private funds

- **Legal name:** JAZZ Venture Partners, LLC
- **SEC number:** CRD 277092

## What they claim to have backed

From their own portfolio page (on their website)

**35** of 47 we have independently watched raise

[Akili Interactive](https://millionrounds.com/company/akili-interactive-labs)[AllStripes](https://millionrounds.com/company/allstripes)[AppliedVR](https://millionrounds.com/company/appliedvr)[Bonito Biosciences](https://millionrounds.com/company/bonito-biosciences)[Cadence Neuroscience](https://millionrounds.com/company/cadence-neuroscience)[Colossal](https://millionrounds.com/company/colossal-biosciences)[Eternal](https://millionrounds.com/company/eternal)[Form Bio](https://millionrounds.com/company/form-bio)[Freeletics](https://millionrounds.com/company/freeletics)[Genesis Molecular AI](https://millionrounds.com/company/genesis-molecular-ai)[Halo Neuroscience](https://millionrounds.com/company/halo-neuroscience)[HerMD](https://millionrounds.com/company/hermd)[HumanCo builds products](https://millionrounds.com/company/humanco)[Magic Mind provides](https://millionrounds.com/company/magicmind)[Magnus Medical](https://millionrounds.com/company/magnus-medical)[Mercaso develops software](https://millionrounds.com/company/mercaso)[Oura](https://millionrounds.com/company/oura)[Outside](https://millionrounds.com/company/outside)[PicnicHealth collects, digitizes,](https://millionrounds.com/company/picnichealth)[Reken](https://millionrounds.com/company/reken)[Robust AI](https://millionrounds.com/company/robust-ai)[Swing](https://millionrounds.com/company/swing)[Thrive AI Health](https://millionrounds.com/company/thrive-ai-health)[Thrive Global provides](https://millionrounds.com/company/thrive-global)[Tomato AI](https://millionrounds.com/company/tomato-ai)[Transcripta leverages cutting-edge](https://millionrounds.com/company/transcripta-bio)[Two Bit](https://millionrounds.com/company/two-bit-circus)[Woebot](https://millionrounds.com/company/woebot)[Yumi delivers scientifically](https://millionrounds.com/company/yumi)[Zus Health](https://millionrounds.com/company/zus-health)[augment](https://millionrounds.com/company/augment)[count](https://millionrounds.com/company/count)[job get](https://millionrounds.com/company/jobget)[justpoint](https://millionrounds.com/company/justpoint)[league](https://millionrounds.com/company/league) Arrive Health Enveda Biosciences leverages Evolv leverages molecular Foresight augments human Insight Timer KLOwen Mozilla Firefox Pinpoint Predictive leverages Sounding Board Wisdo connects merly ai sett

Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.

## Exits from the portfolio

Companies it backed that were later bought or listed **1 in all**

**[Eyefluence](https://millionrounds.com/company/eyefluence)** Bought by [Google](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments) **Undisclosed** Oct 2016

An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.

Latest fund on file

**$12M**

raised in May 2021

From its SEC filing. Nothing newer is on file yet.

## The cheque

Seed Series A Series B

Median round joined **$17M** the round, not its cheque

Led 1 of 11 rounds **9%**

- **Said size:** $100K – $20M
- **Sole investor:** Never alone
- **Last cheque:** Jul 2023
- **Exits:** 1 from the portfolio

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Series B said *5*
- Series A said *3*
- Series C *2*
- Seed said *-*
- Growth said *-*

Cheques by year Led Joined

2015 2023

Often in the room with

- [Arboretum Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/arboretum-ventures) 2
- [EDBI](https://millionrounds.com/fund/edbi) 2

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## Who they invest alongside

The investors most often in the same rounds as Jazz Venture Partners. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.

[**Arboretum Ventures** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/arboretum-ventures)[**EDBI** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/edbi)

## Recently backed

The latest companies Jazz Venture Partners put money into.

[**HerMD** $18M · Jul 2023](https://millionrounds.com/company/hermd)[**NextStep** $3.0M · Aug 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/nextstep)[**Akili** $55M · May 2018](https://millionrounds.com/company/akili)[**Halo Neuroscience** $13M · Jan 2018](https://millionrounds.com/company/halo-neuroscience)[**Augment** $5.0M · Sept 2017](https://millionrounds.com/company/augment)

## Quick answers about Jazz Venture Partners

### What does Jazz Venture Partners invest in?

Jazz Venture Partners invests most often at Series B and Series A (80% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology, Science and Human Performance.

### How active is Jazz Venture Partners?

11 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 1. The most recent was in Jul 2023.

### What has Jazz Venture Partners invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: HerMD (Series A, Jul 2023), Cadence Neurosciences (Series A, Oct 2019) and NextStep (Undisclosed round, Aug 2019).

### How big are Jazz Venture Partners's cheques?

The median round it joins is $17M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $20M.

### Does Jazz Venture Partners lead rounds?

Sometimes: it led 1 of its 11 investments on record (9%).

### Where does Jazz Venture Partners invest?

Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (100%).

### Is Jazz Venture Partners investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Jul 2023.

### Who does Jazz Venture Partners invest alongside?

Most often Arboretum Ventures (2 rounds together) and EDBI (2 rounds together).

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