Summary
Jason Cui is a product-focused investor and operator with 14 years of experience building and scaling developer, AI, and infrastructure products from early startups to enterprise teams. A former founder and co-CEO who exited Jemi to Brat TV, he later led high-impact developer experience, applied AI, and compute infra products at Databricks before moving into investing. Now a Partner at a16z on Infrastructure & AI, he sources and supports companies across dev tooling, prosumer products, and core infra while angel investing selectively. He brings operator sensibilities from roles at Uber, Microsoft, and Hulu plus early biotech research roots, giving him a rare mix of product rigor and technical curiosity. Active in the startup community as a scout, angel, and member of PEF Community, he looks for founders who bridge product-first thinking with deep technical execution. Based in San Francisco and a Harvard CS alum, he is approachable for founder intros (jcui@a16z.com) and known for translating developer needs into investable roadmaps.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Harvard University
Langley High School