Jesse Leimgruber
Founder of OpenHome
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder - CTO
2024 - Current
AI Smart Speaker SDK. Like Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Siri, but actually smart! Bringing AI Voice to all hardware.
Chairman & Founder
2014
Leading Influencer Platform. $75+ Million in revenue from Fortune 500's. In 2017, we led the U.S. launch of TikTok. NeoReach joined TikTok's U.S. launch team to recruit influencers and transition from Musical.ly to TikTok. CEO from 2014 moved to Chairman in 2024.
Founder
2017 - 2023
Acquired in 2024, Raised $50M Developer SDK for Data & Identity, secured a deal with a national government in Asia to rebuild their national ID system.
Bloom is an end-to-end protocol for decentralized identity issuance, identity verification, and anti-fraud.
Thiel Fellow
2016 - 2018
Dropped out of Stanford, Joined the Thiel Fellowship, became close friends with 20+ unicorn founders.
Thiel Capital focuses on investments in various industries such as artificial intelligence, drones, and healthcare.
Founder
2011 - 2015
I built RageHats in highschool. We sold over 100,000 neon hats and scaled to $50k/month in revenue when I was still 16
Founder
2012 - 2015
Consulted for Nissan, Phillips, and dozens of small businesses. Started in highschool and ran throughout Stanford. At one point employed a full time team of 20 while I was still a college freshman.