Joseph Jacks (JJ) is the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital. Since 2018, JJ has directed OSS to lead more than 40 rounds of inception / seed stage investments representing over $200 million in funding. OSS has also played a critical role in driving the creation of over $20 billion in portfolio value creation over the last 5 years.

JJ is also the co-founder of Latent Holdings, the leading Bittensor lab stewarding most of the open source toolchain and infrastructure for Bittensor, and also maintaining TAO.app and Subnets 14 and 5.

JJ is also created Open Core Summit, the global COSS ecosystem conference, run independently as a vendor-neutral community that includes the leading investment firms, cloud providers, COSS companies / founders and enterprise end-user practitioners.

Previously, JJ was a founding contributor to the CNCF through his donation of KubeCon (created and led by Kismatic in 2014, the first enterprise-focused commercial Kubernetes company).