Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$100,000.00Target Investment:
$100,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including James
Investments
Clinikally
Total Funding: $3.5M
Superorder
Total Funding: $13M
BOND
Total Funding: $3M
Frond
Total Funding: $3M
Meez Culinary Solutions
Total Funding: $33M
Rye
Total Funding: $14M
Kona
Total Funding: $8M
Showplace
Total Funding: $2M
Vital
Total Funding: $52M
Earth
Total Funding: $10M
Work Experience
2020
Founder & Executive Chairman
2020
The world’s first productivity drink called “Silicon Valley’s new morning elixir” by Forbes. 7 hours of flow-state in a 2oz shot. Meet your new favorite part of your morning ritual at magicmind.com.
2013
Startup Investor
2013
Seed investor in startups worth over $50Bn in market cap: Gusto, Mercury, Clubhouse, Alchemy, Liquid Death, Mindbloom, Bolt, Super Coffee, ThirdLove, RigUp, LTSE, IRL, Caliva, Triplebyte, ZeroDown, Eden, Gravitational, Eligible, St. Frank, Thunkable, Tari, Backdrop, Rupa Health, Momentus, Cerebral, Nexhealth, Recess, Haus, Halo Top, Jour, Brightland, CB Thera, MatchaBar, The Class, Asystem, WattBuy, Tandem, Mindset, Maker Wine, more (jjbeshara.com for more). Have mistakenly looked over countless great companies that I kick myself for often. Podcasting on the psychology of creation with Below The Line (belowthelinepod.com).
2017 - 2018
Director, Product
2017 - 2018
Social travel product initiatives across payments, messaging, listings, saved lists; and incubations of new business-lines for the world's best travel brand.
2017 - 2018
Advisor, Basic Income Research
2017 - 2018
Helping YC Research with their Universal Basic Income project — a first-of-its-kind research project studying the effects of a guaranteed basic income in the developed world.
2012 - 2017
CEO & Co-Founder
2012 - 2017
An award-winning social payments application, processing hundreds of millions of dollars for millions of users around the world. Acquired by Airbnb after growing globally (and building an exceptionally talented team).
2008 - 2011
CEO & Founder
2008 - 2011
"Development via education, lending, and opportunity" — With a focus on non-profit poverty alleviation organizations, it was one of the earliest crowdfunding platforms in the world, taking me from my dorm room to South Africa for two years (and beginning my career in startups). “Below the line” version: Ultimately, this was a failure due to personally not internalizing how expensive growing regulation, that began in 2010, of the space would be; first major touchpoint of public, professional failure.