Karl Jacob

Karl Jacob is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of LoanSnap, an AI-driven mortgage startup that pitched itself as the fix for a $13 trillion industry. Over more than two decades he founded or led companies including Dimension X (sold to Microsoft), Keen/Ingenio (sold to AT&T), Cloudmark (sold to Proofpoint) and Coveroo (sold to Zazzle), became one of Facebook's earliest advisors in 2005, and angel-invested in dozens of startups. LoanSnap raised roughly $100 million from backers like True Ventures, Richard Branson's Virgin Group, Reid Hoffman and Joe Montana before unraveling amid lawsuits, regulatory fines and an eviction between 2022 and 2024.