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Jake Heller

Founder

Founder/CEO at CaseText

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedCaseText Β· YC

30 Under 30 2014 Β· Law & Policy

About

Jake Heller is co-founder and CEO of Casetext, a legal tech company acquired by Thomson Reuters. He has a background in law and technology.

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Jake Heller @jacob_heller

Proud of our work with @CA_Innocence. Great interview: https://t.co/YlfYis6joW

Jun 7, 2023 Β· β™₯ 2 Β· ⇄ 1

Jake Heller @jacob_heller

An immense amount of effort goes into making large language models work for legal use cases. This post series explains some of the work and techniques we use to get GPT4 to do legal tasks over large corpora of documents, without hallucination, and with a daily updating database https://t.co/FHyH7uQOIa

May 16, 2023 Β· β™₯ 11 Β· ⇄ 3

Founder/CEO at CaseTextYC S13

Intro paths

YC

Jake went through Y Combinator (Summer 2013) β€” any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Jake can intro founders to CaseText's investors below.

CaseText's investors Β· 13

8VCBlumberg CapitalBuildGroupCanvas VenturesCerity Partners VenturesCrosslink CapitalGradient VenturesLegalTechPROOFRed Sea VenturesSocii CapitalUnion Square Ventures (USV)Y Combinator

Experience

  1. Thomson ReutersHead of Product, CoCounselcurrent2023 β€” presentCalifornia, United States
  2. CasetextCEO2013 β€” 2023California, United States
  3. Ropes & Gray LLPAssociate2011 β€” 2013Boston, MA
  4. Governor's Office of Legal CounselLaw Fellow2011Greater Boston Area
  5. First Circuit Court of AppealsLaw Clerk2010 β€” 2011
  6. Stanford Law ReviewPresident2009 β€” 2010
  7. White House Counsel's OfficeIntern2009
  8. Public CitizenLaw Clerk2008

Education

  1. Stanford Law SchoolJD2007 β€” 2010
  2. Pitzer CollegeB.A., Economics & Politics2003 β€” 2007

Skills & more

Legal ResearchLegal WritingLitigationCivil LitigationCommercial LitigationAppealsPublic PolicyClass ActionsIntellectual PropertyPolicy AnalysisConstitutional LawAdministrative Law
+12 moreSecurities RegulationPatent LitigationCourtsTrademarksInternational LawCorporate LawPatentsCopyright LawWestlawPrivacy LawTrade SecretsLicensing

From Jake's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Stanford Law School68

Steve AbbottPartner, Capital Markets at Sapphire VenturesMichael KlaykoOperating Executive at Marlin Equity PartnersSandy MillerInvestor at IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Tim HsiaFounder at Context VenturesRenataCo-founder at Renegade PartnersShawn ConwayManaging Partner and COO at Questa Capital

+ 62 more

Also attended Pitzer College5

Steven LindsethGeneral Partner at CU Healthcare Innovation FundHussein AlharthyVP of International Business Development at DisruptiveMatt TurzoOperating Partner - Operations at SamaipataTim SchifterStrategic Advisor at Fernbrook Capital ManagementSebastian BrunemeierGeneral Partner at Healthspan Capital

Shared employers

Also worked at Thomson Reuters96

Andrea HippeauPartner at Lerer HippeauBob StefanskiManaging Director at eLab VenturesRhie LimPartner, Global Strategy at One Way VenturesJoePartner at Thomson Reuters VenturesJosef NajmPrincipal at Thomson Reuters VenturesJillExecutive Assistant at Thomson Reuters Ventures

+ 90 more

Also worked at Casetext4

Rebecca LynnManaging Director at Canvas VenturesDavid BeyerPartner at Amplify PartnersJeroen PlinkVenture Partner at LegalTechJim CurryCo-Founder and CEO at BuildGroup

Also worked at Ropes & Gray LLP15

Julia Gonzalez SandersPartner and General Counsel at Crosslink CapitalMichael B. MoradzadehVenture Partner at LegalTechTim McKeeverLegal Counsel at Red Cell IncubationMichele BattleExecutive Assistant at Commerce VenturesRamis KhanInvestor at SUPPLY CHANGE CAPITALDerek ChauInvestor at Acorn Pacific Ventures

+ 9 more

Also worked at First Circuit Court of Appeals3

Matt RitaManaging Director at Link VenturesSalen ChuriGeneral Partner at Trust VenturesCaroline WellsHead of Legal at SE Ventures