Jamie Goldstein has spent more than two decades working in venture capital, and is the founding partner of Pillar VC. ​He also serves as Chairman of Petri, an accelerator program co-founded by Pillar VC focused on supporting companies at the intersection of computation, biology, and engineering.

Jamie has led Pillar VC’s investments in PillPack, Kuebix, Desktop Metal, Algorand, PathAI, Asimov, Neural Magic, Jellyfish, and Edgewise. Prior to Pillar, Jamie was a partner for 18 years at North Bridge Venture Partners, where he invested in companies including Actifio, Plexxi, Layer3 TV, and O3b Networks.

Prior to North Bridge, Jamie co-founded PureSpeech, a venture-backed speech recognition software and applications company that was acquired by Voice Control Systems and subsequently sold to Nuance. Jamie also co-founded WattsUp?, a company that sells consumer electricity meters and remains in business today.

Jamie holds an electrical engineering and computer science degree from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served as chairman and president of the New England Venture Capital Association.