Steve Jacobs is founding partner at Drumbeat Capital, a San Francisco and Munich seed-stage firm investing in aerospace and dual-use technology, robotics and manufacturing, novel AI and compute, and energy and materials across the US and Europe. He previously served as partner and chief product officer at Lakestar, leading its deep tech practice and holding board seats at Isar Aerospace, ClearSpace and Aleph Alpha. Earlier he spent over a decade in product roles at Apple, Google, Meta and HP, and founded and exited the hardware startup Olio Devices.