A family office that builds what it owns.
Jacobsen Ventures invests the Jacobsen family's capital in companies it can help build, and holds them for the long run.
Jacobsen Ventures is the investment office of the Jacobsen family, based in Logan, Utah. It began in 2013 as a venture building practice, taking technology and operating roles inside early-stage Utah companies, and became the family's office as those positions grew.
Today the office holds interests in private equity, healthcare services, water infrastructure and freight technology, and its family includes FDEV, an AI engineering firm. It invests from the family's own balance sheet, with no outside investors and no fund term, so it can hold a good company for as long as it stays good.
Six principles guide every commitment the office makes.
Operate before we invest
The office has filled COO, CTO and board seats at companies it owns. It invests where that operating experience can change the result.
Hold for decades
Family capital has no fund clock. The office plans to own good companies for a generation and adds to them as they grow.
Own few, know each well
A concentrated portfolio lets the office move quickly when a company needs capital, a hire or a hard decision.
Build with AI from the start
BUILD and Pure run on software and AI systems built by FDEV, the family's engineering firm, so they do more with smaller teams.
Back founders as partners
The office co-founds and co-invests alongside the people who run the business, and it stays close after the check clears.
Steward for the next generation
Every holding is chosen with the next generation in mind, and the family's younger members already invest alongside the office.
Where the office commits capital.
The office favors businesses with real operations, recurring demand and a clear role for hands-on ownership.
What portfolio companies get from the office.
Operating depth
Experience from the COO, CTO and board seats of companies the office built, available on the problems that matter most.
Engineering
FDEV builds the systems a growing company needs, so management teams get software and AI without hiring a department.
Patient capital
Follow-on capital from an owner with no exit deadline, sized to the plan rather than a fund's calendar.
Relationships
Access to BUILD Capital Partners, its investors and the office's partners in Chile and Europe.
Built to last beyond one generation.
The Jacobsens organized the office to outlast any single person. Its holdings, records and systems are built so the next generation can carry the work forward.
- 01The family's younger members already invest alongside the office.
- 02Holdings are chosen to be owned for decades.
- 03The office invests where the family lives and works, starting in Utah.
