Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Radical Ventures · Joined 2017
View Live Interactive Profile →Jordan Jacobs came to AI investing through an unusual path - a former entertainment lawyer who co-founded a cultural content platform called Milq in 2011, then spun out an AI-focused offshoot, Layer 6 AI, in 2016 with fellow Milq co-founder Tomi Poutanen and Maks Volkovs, a student of deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton. TD Bank Group acquired Layer 6 just 15 months after its founding, and Jacobs joined as Chief AI Officer before co-founding the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence with Poutanen and Hinton, an initiative that became central to Canada's national AI strategy. He left TD in 2019 to run Radical Ventures full-time, building North America's first dedicated AI-focused venture fund, and has since recruited an unusually prominent scientific bench including Fei-Fei Li and Daphne Koller as Scientific Partners. Jacobs sits on the board of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, helped author Canada's national AI strategy, and was named one of Toronto's 50 Most Influential People.