Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$2,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,125,000.00
Skills
Lists including Eden
Investments
Finaloop
Total Funding: $52M
Superlegal
Total Funding: $5M
The Gist
Total Funding: $7M
Raftt
Total Funding: $5M
Travelier
Total Funding: $81M
Panorays
Total Funding: $62M
Sightful
Total Funding: $61M
NextSilicon
Total Funding: $200M
Unit
Total Funding: $170M
Approve.com
Total Funding: $5.6M
Work Experience
2013
Equal Partner
2013
Some of my investments and board memberships include: • Simply (https://hellosimply.com/): Making the pursuit of creative hobbies simple and fun • Unit (https://www.unit.co/): Unit is the leading financial infrastructure platform that helps tech companies, store, move, and lend money. • NextSilicon (https://nextsilicon.com): Software defined next generation CPU for HPC and beyond. • Sightful (https://sightful.com): Creators of Spacetop: the world’s first AR laptop. • Fabric (https://getfabric.com): Get closer to customers with micro-fulfillment. • Panorays (https://panorays.com): Third-Party Cybersecurity, Shaped for Your Risk DNA • Superlegal (https://www.superlegal.ai/): Superlegal is a contract solution that helps you speed up your contracts, cheaper and faster than any lawyer. • Anodot (https://anodot.com): Monitoring that understands business Exits: • TinyTap (https://tinytap.com, acquired by Animoca): Building the largest learning platform with thousands of educational games developed by educators worldwide. • Windward (https://windward.ai, IPOed on London AIM): Predictive intelligence fusing AI, big data, and maritime expertise to enable future forward decisions. • Approve.com (https://approve.com, acquired by Tipalti): Simple, Customizable Procurement Processes For Your Organization. • Houseparty (http://www.houseparty.com, acquired by Epic Games): Bringing empathy to online communication
Lecturer at the Zell Entrepreneurship Program
2010
Had the opportunity to develop a semester-long syllabus for a new course focused on New Media Entrepreneurship. Couldn't resist. Jury is still out whether I'm good at it.
2010 - 2013
General Partner
2010 - 2013
I invested into 6 companies and had had two IPOs: • Monday.com (https://monday.com, NASDAQ: MNDY): The Work OS that gives everyone the power to build and improve the way their organization runs. I led the first round of the company after its spinoff from Wix. • Riskified (https://riskified.com, NYSE:RSKD): empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by taking risk off the table. IPOed on NYSE, raising $330M at $3.3B valuation. Genesis held >20% at IPO.
2007 - 2012
Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board
2007 - 2012
Face.com is helping people find photos, using our home grown best-in-breed facial recognition technologies. The first deployment of our tech is our Photo Finder application for Facebook, today’s largest photo sharing site, which scans public photos in your social network and suggests tags for untagged faces. Face.com was acquired by Facebook, which was selected by Europas (http://www.theeuropas.com/shortlists) as winner in "Exit of 2012" category.
2004 - 2011
Co-Founder, Limited Partner
2004 - 2011
Algorithm-based trading company. Keywords: FIX, Bloomberg, Sivron, RealTick, Automatic Trading
2004 - 2010
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
2004 - 2010
We invented End-User Experience Monitoring (EUEM) and Digital Experience Management (DEX) before these had a name. Aternity was acquired by Riverbed, 2016, and then turned into an independent division 2019 after growing >100% in 2018.
2001 - 2004
Director, Software Engineering
2001 - 2004
Database virtualization done way before anyone knew what virtualization meant.
1995 - 2001
Founder, Chief Technology Officer
1995 - 2001
The world's first interactive 3D authoring tool and runtime platform, deployed on top of Macromedia Director & Shockwave.