Jim Breyer

Jim is the Founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a premier venture capital firm based in Austin, TX. Jim has been an early investor in over 40 technology companies that have completed highly successful public offerings or mergers.

As a lead investor and Director, many of these investments, including Facebook/Meta, returned well over 100 times their cost and over a dozen more have returned well over 25 times their cost. Over the past several years, Jim has developed a deep personal and investment interest in long-term-oriented entrepreneurs and teams working in artificial intelligence (AI), and he has made over 18 investments in this space. Jim has served on the Board of Directors of Blackstone (BX) since 2016. He has previously served as an investor and/or lead Director at Dell, Etsy, Facebook, Marvel Entertainment, Spotify, Wal-Mart, 21st Century Fox, and many others.

Jim received his B.S. from Stanford University and MBA from Harvard University, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar (top 5%). In February 2024, Jim received the Presidential Citation from The University of Texas at Austin, the highest honor bestowed by the University. Jim is a member of the UT’s President’s Advisory Board for Innovation and the Advisory Board for Commercialization. He has previously served as a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, Harvard’s Senior Governing Board. He currently serves on several Harvard and Stanford Advisory Boards, including Stanford's AI Institute, as a Founding Member.