Investing

🦄 I am an angel investor in 30+ companies including: Anthropic ($18B → $965B), Cognition ($40M → $26B), Lighter ($1.5B), Neon (acquired by Databricks for $1B), Bluesky ($700M), Anrok ($525M), Poetic ($500M), Besxar, Pura, Private AI, Granica, Matey, Recraft, and more.

I've most commonly co-invested with: Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, NEA, Village Global, Neo, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Sound Ventures, and Spearhead.

I'm also a Limited Partner or Special Partner in: Neo, Operator Collective, Sound Ventures, Timespan Ventures, Laude Ventures, Trenches Venture Capital, Sonar Capital, and Village Global.

I love to back world-class problem-solvers going after the intersection of deep tech and human impact — particularly in Applied AI, AI Infrastructure, Space & Deep Tech, Quantum Computing, and Robotics. If you're an ICPC World Finalist, IOI medalist, or the like, thinking about building or joining an early-stage startup, please reach out.

Having scaled and exited one company — and now back at it again — I aim to be your first call: someone who has walked the journey, and a deeply empathetic yet analytical problem-solver for CEOs. I typically help with taking deep tech to market, finding product-market fit, the CEO journey (hiring and scaling a team, building operating rigor), and marketing and press.

Investing, for me, is one piece of a larger goal: giving others the access to technology, entrepreneurship, and education that was afforded me. Beyond writing checks, I work directly with founders and executives:

• Independent Board Member
• Executive Coaching
• Startup Advising
• Fundraising Strategy
• Angel Investing (incl. syndicates, scouts)

If you're building something and think I can help, get in touch.