Jamie Goldstein is Partner at Pillar VC, a firm he co-founded with leaders of many of Boston’s most important companies, including DraftKings, Wayfair, Ginkgo Bioworks and Circle. While at Pillar, he also co-founded Petri, a program supporting pre-seed biotech companies, and the melon, a crypto incubation studio. Jamie previously spent 18 years at North Bridge Venture Partners. Prior to North Bridge, he was a Co-Founder of PureSpeech, a speech recognition company. Jamie is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School.

Key Investments: During his career, Jamie has backed dozens of Boston-based startups, including many spinouts from MIT and Harvard. Jamie invests in seed-stage companies at inception, and was the first investor in Algorand, an MIT blockchain spinout that has grown to a $3B market cap. His seed investments at Pillar also include Jellyfish, an engineering management tool, PathAI, a diagnostic tool powered by machine learning, Asimov, a genetic circuits company and Desktop Metal. He also led later stage investments in Circle and PillPack.

How to get his attention: “The best way to connect is by reaching out through one of our portfolio companies. We have great respect for their judgment. Connect through a founder, leader, advisor or co-investor. I also really enjoy working with scientific founders. Forward me a paper you’ve published based on an amazing new discovery or insight. You can also try cold emailing me with a provocative subject line.”