Co-Founder and General Partner
Character CapitalCheck size: Up to $2M from the main fund; Character Labs publishes a separate $200K-for-5% offer.
Jake Knapp invests or supports investments through Character Capital's published strategy: Back frontier AI and software companies changing science, medicine, industry, business and commerce, with concentrated support in the earliest stages.
High-agency founders with a distinctive insight, rapid learning loops and the potential to make new technical capabilities useful in large markets.
No formal pass list is public. Companies outside frontier software and AI or beyond the firm's inception-to-seed focus appear less aligned.
Show the founder insight, frontier capability, urgent use case, learning velocity and why Character's product and design experience matters at inception.
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Jake Knapp is listed by Character Capital as Co-Founder and General Partner. Former GV partner, co-founder of Google Meet and creator of the Design Sprint.