AUTONOMOUS 2026

Steve Jacobs

Partner

DRUMBEAT CAPITAL

Steve Jacobs is the Founding Partner of Drumbeat Capital, a Seed Stage, Deep Tech VC investing in the US & Europe. Drumbeat Capital provides Deep Tech founders with a unique Transatlantic Bridge designed to accelerate access to the customers, capital, talent, governments, and industrial bases in both continents. His investment portfolio includes Decacorns like Physical Intelligence, and Unicorns such as Varda Space Industries, Olix Computing, and Proxima Fusion. Steve authors The 2026 Deep Tech Report, the largest Deep Tech report in the world. (Download the Report at https://drumbeat.capital/) Steve brings over a decade of experience in product management, design, and development for companies such as Apple, HP, Meta, and Google as well as having founded and exited his own start-up. He is a former Partner at Lakestar ($2B AUM European VC) leading the Deep Tech investment practice.