Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$500,000.00Max Investment:
$1,000,000.00Target Investment:
$500,000.00
Skills
Education
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Lists including Chris
Investments
Synch
Total Funding: $3.5M
Checkmate
Total Funding: $20M
Firstparty
Total Funding: $6M
Fly.io
Total Funding: $110M
Specto
Total Funding: $3M
Lovd.com
Total Funding: $5M
Drivetime
Total Funding: $19M
Bark Technologies
Total Funding: $37M
Future Family
Total Funding: $39M
Orion Labs
Total Funding: $63M
Work Experience
2023
Founder and Managing Director
2023
Ritual Capital is a $38M seed-stage venture firm that invests in infrastructure and developer tools, SaaS companies, and select consumer ideas, investing collaborative ~$300k checks in exceptional founders building enduring, iconic companies.
2013
Founder and Partner
2013
Fuel Capital is an early stage venture fund based in San Francisco, CA. Early investor in companies like Cambly, Clearbit, Convoy, CTRL Labs, Figma, Flexport, Fly, GoodDog, Highspot, Joy, Kepler, Lattice, Nervana, and VetCove.
2007 - 2013
Principal
2007 - 2013
Ignition Partners was an early stage venture fund with over $2 billion under management across six funds. The firm invested in 70+ portfolio companies across cloud-computing, infrastructure, mobile and consumer. Notable investments include Splunk, Xensource, Cloudera, and Docusign. Launched Ignition Seed, a dedicated seed-stage investment program in 2010. The firm invested in approximately 40 seed-stage companies, including PagerDuty, Kong, ConnectedHQ (acq by LinkedIn), Cue, Hipmunk (acq by Concur), Mattermark, Minomonsters, Realm, and Zencoder (acq by Brightcove). Also worked closely with our investments in Heroku, Parse and WePay.
2003 - 2005
Account Lead, New Balance
2003 - 2005
Heckler Associates is a brand development firm helping iconic companies like Starbucks, Panera Bread, New Balance, K2, Cinnabon, Ivars, Rainier, Redhook, Suncadia, and Visio define and become leaders in their category. Launched Aravon, a New Balance start-up brand and Procare, New Balance's fit specialist network.
2001 - 2003
Business Development
2001 - 2003
Design and marketing firm specializing in brand strategy, print, and interactive communications. Clients included Microsoft, Attachmate, WCI Telecom, Kibble & Prentice, and Columbia Hospitality.
1999 - 2000
Marketing Manager
1999 - 2000
Ran the marketing programs for closeout sporting goods retailer prior to an acquisition by Overstock.com.
1997 - 1999
Account Executive, Lexus
1997 - 1999
Managed the national television, print, and outdoor brand campaigns for Lexus. Coordinated the American Cancer Society’s national “Hope. Progress. Answers.” re-branding initiative.