Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$500,000.00Max Investment:
$2,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- HU
Lists including Marc
Investments
Pluto Card
Total Funding: $6M
Ascend
Total Funding: $39M
TRLab
Total Funding: $4M
Flint
Total Funding: $24M
DELV (Formerly Element Finance)
Total Funding: $36M
Dots
Total Funding: $13M
Lean Financial
Total Funding: $5.8M
Vantage
Total Funding: $26M
Subject
Total Funding: $29M
Stitch
Total Funding: $35M
Work Experience
2023
Managing Director
2023
Managing Director leading early stage crypto and fintech investing, as well as the Creation Fund for incubation and purchasing software companies. General Catalyst is a venture capital firm ($30B AUM) that has had the privilege to support great founders and teams behind companies like Anduril, Applied Intuition, AirBnb, Canva, Circle, Datto, Deliveroo, DemandWare, Grammarly, Gitlab, Guild Education, Gusto, Hubspot, Instacart, Kayak, Livongo, Ramp, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, Thoughtspot, Vroom, and others.
2020 - 2023
Business Operations and Strategy
2020 - 2023
Focus on Tagomi integration as well as strategy + standup for new products/offerings
2020 - 2023
Angel Investor in Fintech, Crypto, AI, and Startup Tooling
2020 - 2023
Seed/ Early Stage Investments: Fintech: Ramp, Balance, AtoB, Mosaic, Power (acquired by Marqeta), Unit, Lula, Clara, Zip, Atomic Invest, Stark Bank, Seel, Relay Finance, Highnote, Boom & Bucket, Savvy, Array, Ascend, Footprint, Pawp, Arch, Fragment.dev, Maza, Payrails, Trucksmarter, Mercantile, Adaptive, Nomba, Stitch Money, Pine, Modern Life, Authentic, DollarApp, Sanlo, Frec, Comity, Yuno, Amplify Insurance, Column Tax, Argyle, Comun Crypto: Taxbit, Crossmint, Sardine, TRM Labs, Eigen Labs, Turnkey, Dynamic, Neeva (Acquired by Snowflake), Moonpay, Hang, Monad, Tenderly, Flowdesk, Exponential, Spectral, Artemis, Axiom/Intrinsic, Fortunafi, Bridge, Courtyard, Visible.xyz, Layer 3, Deform, Llama, Olympix, Kiln, Polymarket, Definitive, Layer2 Financial, Superform, Allium AI: Harvey AI, Recraft, Grit, Cohere, Portrait Analytics, Kick, Raylu, Visual Electric, Together AI, SellScale, Codeium, Exa, Gladia, Coris AI, Doppel, Morph Labs Startup Tooling & Other: Stytch, Neon, Avenue, Causal, Sutro, Makelog, Eraser Labs, Zip Security, Bluesky, Vantage, Standard Meterics, SecureFrame, Knock, Default, Comprehensive, Pequity, Traba, Zbiotics, Claim, Passes, Notch
2018 - 2020
Co-Founder, President
2018 - 2020
Tagomi was acquired by Coinbase in 2020 and is the first prime brokerage for digital assets. It is now a foundational piece of Coinbase Prime Brokerage, whose clients include Tesla, SpaceX, Blackrock, and others. Tagomi raised $28mm, with our largest backers being Founders Fund and Paradigm, as well as Pantera, Collaborative Fund, SV Angel, Elad Gil, Charlie Songhurst, Lee Linden, Box Group.
2016 - 2018
Director of Investing
2016 - 2018
I worked on the two-person investment team with Kal Vepuri of Brainchild. Seed/Series A investments include blockchain (Blockstack, Filecoin, Zeppelin, Algorand), consumer (Warby, Harry's, Sweetgreen, MIRROR), and tech (Docker, SeatGeek, ClassPass, Gusto) companies.
2015 - 2016
Business Development
2015 - 2016
Focus on fintech partnerships.
2010 - 2012
Private Equity Associate
2010 - 2012
Castanea Partners is a consumer focused private equity fund founded by two former CEOs of Neiman Marcus and has $1B under management. Buy-side associate.
2008 - 2010
Business Analyst
2008 - 2010
Experience in operations, energy trading, risk, refining, chemicals. Received offer to return as Senior Associate.