Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
High School degree
The Loomis Chaffee School(1991 - 1994)
Lists including Andrew
Investments
Panacea Financial
Total Funding: $25M
Petal
Total Funding: $280M
Parker
Total Funding: $37M
Link Financial Technologies
Total Funding: $30M
Mondu
Total Funding: $70M
Baraka
Total Funding: $20M
Neo Financial
Total Funding: $220M
Hopscotch
Total Funding: $92M
Moss
Total Funding: $120M
Qonto
Total Funding: $700M
Work Experience
General Partner
2010
Founding Partner at Valar Ventures, a fintech-focused, NYC-based venture capital firm. Investments include Xero, Transferwise, N26, Stash, Qonto, BlockFi, Octane, Moss, Kuda, Point, Neo Financial, Syfe, Bitpanda, Velocity, Starship, Jetty, Coya, Bestow, Petal, TaxFix, Albo, Bukuwarung, Bank Novo, Parker, Majority, Portofino, Shares, Hatch, Vauld, Syfe, ShopUp, XanPool, Yellow Card, Breather, EyeEm, Even, Kalo, Homie, Dinda, Granify, Vend, ContaAzul.
2008 - 2013
Principal
2008 - 2013
Special projects at Peter Thiel’s multi‐strategy, global-asset-management firm.
2003 - 2008
Founder & CEO
2003 - 2008
Sprezzatura Restaurant Group created and operated two restaurants in San Francisco: Frisson and Laiola.
2002 - 2003
Operations
2002 - 2003
Left eBay with Peter Thiel following the acquisition of PayPal to help set up Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund. Managed Clarium’s start up operations.
2001 - 2002
Assistant to CEO
2001 - 2002
Assisted Peter Thiel, then CEO of PayPal, with corporate development and management functions. Worked directly with senior management to create the investor presentation for PayPal’s IPO road show. Attended and coordinated all meetings for the IPO and secondary offering road shows. Coordinated all Board of Directors meetings. Worked with PayPal’s VP Business Development to develop an effective lobbying strategy to address PayPal’s regulatory issues.
2000 - 2001
Business Development Associate - Yahoo! Latin America
2000 - 2001
Assisted the Director of Business Development for all of Yahoo! Inc.’s spanish language properties.
1999 - 2000
Business Development Associate
1999 - 2000