Jim is the Founder/CEO of Breyer Capital, a premier venture capital firm based in Austin, TX. He has been an early investor in more than 40 technology companies that have completed successful public offerings or mergers. As a lead investor and Director, many of these investments (including Facebook/Meta) returned well over 100x their cost, and over a dozen more have returned over 25x.
For more than a decade, Jim has partnered with long-term-oriented entrepreneurs working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the life sciences and he has made more than 20 investments in this space. Jim has served on the Board of Directors of Blackstone (BX) since 2016 and has previously served as an investor and/or lead Director at Circle (which completed its initial public offering in June 2025), Dell, Etsy, Facebook, Legendary Entertainment, Marvel Entertainment, Spotify, Walmart, and 21st Century Fox, among many others.
Jim received his B.S. from Stanford University and MBA from Harvard University, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar (top 5%). In February 2024, Jim received the Presidential Citation from The University of Texas at Austin, the highest honor bestowed by the University. Jim is a member of UT’s President’s Advisory Board for Innovation and Advisory Board for Commercialization, and previously served as a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. He currently serves on several Harvard and Stanford Advisory Boards, including Stanford’s AI Institute, as a Founding Member.
