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Jake Stauch

Co-founder and CEO of Serval.

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Key facts

NeuroSpire

At Duke’s DUhatch summer incubator, Stauch presented NeuroSpire, using neuromarketing to make consumer-preference research more affordable.⁠[1]

Education

Duke identifies him with its class of 2015.⁠[2]

NEURO+ and Mentoring

A contemporary Duke report identified him as NEURO+ founder and CEO and an entrepreneurship coach; he joined a Moogfest entrepreneurship panel in Durham.⁠[3]

Verkada Role

His March 5 article identified him as Director of Product Management for the Alarms Business, discussing video verification and alarm response.⁠[4]

Serval

He co-founded Serval with Alex McLeod, serving as CEO while McLeod became CTO.⁠[5]

Series A

Duke reported a $47 million Series A led by Redpoint, bringing Serval’s total funding to $52 million.⁠[2]

Sequoia Investment

Sequoia announced its investment in Serval’s Series B. It described how the founders’ work with IT buyers at Verkada led to natural-language-generated code workflows and an expansion into ticketing, access and asset management.⁠[6]

Serval Start

Serval Start admitted 12 people for two years of customer projects and founder training.⁠[5]

Automation Engineers

In a signed essay, Stauch argued that easier AI automation increases the need for engineers who understand organizational processes, identify useful tasks and implement systems.⁠[7]

Journeys

Serval released Journeys to coordinate onboarding, departures and role changes across teams, combining automated tasks, human steps and approval dependencies.⁠[8]

Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts

Sources

  1. Duke Students 'Hatch' Businesses at Summer Program (opens in a new window)
  2. Duke I&E Network in the News (opens in a new window)
  3. Duke’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program Helps Launch Moogfest in Durham (opens in a new window)
  4. Why Your Alarm System Could Become Obsolete in 2024 (opens in a new window)
  5. Serval Launches Program to Transform Employees Into Future Founders (opens in a new window)
  6. Partnering with Serval: Empowering IT for AI Enterprise Automation (opens in a new window)
  7. The Rise of the Automation Engineer (opens in a new window)
  8. Journeys is now generally available (opens in a new window)
  9. Jake Stauch (@jakeserval) / X (opens in a new window)
  10. Jake Stauch | LinkedIn (opens in a new window)