Jack Dunn

Partner

Jack Dunn

Based in Daversa’s San Francisco office, Jack works primarily across early to mid-stage B2B SaaS, middleware, infrastructure, frontier technology and marketplace models, placing CEOs, Presidents and Heads of Sales, Marketing, Post-Sales, Customer Success and a variety of general management, product, and operations roles. 

Jack has spent the last twelve years building particular depth around the SaaS and infrastructure categories having built leadership teams at Zendesk, GitLab, Palo Alto Networks, Rippling, Brightwheel, Miro, GitLab, CircleCI, Mercury, Material Security, Podium, Twic, Openspace, Observe.ai, Planetscale, Aleo and others. Jack also leads a large portion of the firm’s frontier technology work, with particular depth in robotics for companies like Covariant, Kindred.AI, Dexterity.AI, Giant.AI, Gecko Robotics, Recursion Pharmaceuticals and others.

Jack is a frequent partner to A16Z, Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, Emergence Capital, Accel Partners, Lux Capital, and a select group of other top tier venture capital and private equity firms. 

Jack holds a degree in history from Hamilton College.

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