Mike has designed missile defense systems, designed and sold air and water pollution control systems and was an early angel investor in Salesforce.com. After a decade of software sales and sales management, Mike successfully founded and sold an enterprise social networking company, while attending business school at Haas and Columbia University. Following the sale of Leverage, Mike focused his efforts on investing and was a first round investor in Uber. Leveraging his early investment success and love for helping early stage companies, Mike launched Structure Capital in June of
2013 and invested in 50 companies during the first
year of business.

Jillian Manus is an experienced banking and media executive, a technology investor and entrepreneur. She is Managing Partner of an early stage Silicon Valley venture fund, Structure Capital. Branded” Architects of the Zero Waste Economy” they invest in underutilized assets and excess capacity.

Jillian serves on numerous boards including: Stanford University Digital Health, Stanford University School of Medicine Board of Fellows, Advisory Board of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center Board of Directors, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Communities in Schools.

Prior to Structure Capital, Jillian was Founder of Broad Strategy, Manus Media and Global Goal Sports Management. She served as Co- Director of TMT for Credit Suisse Zurich, and Director of Development for Universal and Warner Bros and Associate Publisher of the national publication Upside, reporting on the financial strategies of the technology industry.

As a frequent global public speaker, Jillian provides business and political commentary in the media, primarily on CNBC’s Squawk Alley and Bloomberg Business news. She also co-hosts Gimlet Media’s business podcast “The Pitch.”

Ms. Manus attended The University of Oxford & NYU, where she served on the Board of Trustees. Throughout her careers, she has been a strong advocate for inclusion and diversity, frequently speaking on the topic of “Investing in Values, not just Valuations”.

Jacob has spent his career focused on the interchange of technology, marketing, and business. Jacob has been coding for 20+ years, and continues to parachute in with startups to advice on platforms and technology. Hired at 19 as a programmer at Dell Computers in Austin, he worked on the largest eCommerce store in the world, while at Dell for 3 years. He then started a tech consulting firm building enterprise software for 7 years advising Dell and their teams on platforms, application development, big data and logistics. Moving to San Diego he co-founded a Digital Agency building digital products and campaigns for big brands such as Yahoo Sports, Qualcomm, NFL, Comcast, etc.

After selling the agency, he played leadership roles in technology and advisory roles for Dell, NASCAR, F1, NFL, Qualcomm and Pixar. He currently is an advisor to brands and early growth-stage companies, angel investor, and he first joined as a Director, Portfolio and LP Community, and Entrepreneur in Residence at Structure Capital, and now is a Partner for the fund. Jacob stepped in as Chief Technology Officer for Copia during the Y-Combinator W’16 batch, a portfolio company.

Jacob proudly has a daughter in tech, currently in University studying Computer Science and Mathematics.