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Pedro Torres Picón

Founder, Investor, Tinkerer

Brooklyn, New York

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $200,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $0.00

Work Experience

2011

  • Founder and Managing Director

    2011

    Early investor in Cruise Automation (acquired by General Motors), Chargehound (acquired by PayPal), Tapad (acquired by Telenor), August (acquired by Assa Abloy), Fieldlens (acquired by WeWork), Locu (acquired by GoDaddy), Grand Street (acquired by Etsy), and many other great companies.

  • Adjunct Instructor

    2020

    Lead the Lab portion of the Entrepreneurship Capstone class in the MS program in Computing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MS-CEI), offered jointly by the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Stern School of Business at NYU.

  • Recurring Guest Lecturer

    2019 - 2019

    Created and delivered a 5-lecture series on VC fundraising and pitch deck building for the Entrepreneurship Capstone class in the MS program in Computing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MS-CEI), offered jointly by the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Stern School of Business at NYU.

  • Founder

    2020

    Building something new in the crypto space.

2019

  • Founder

    2019

2017 - 2020

  • Board Chair

    2017 - 2020

2015 - 2019

  • Advisor

    2015 - 2019

2016 - 2017

  • Research Affiliate

    2016 - 2017

2012 - 2017

  • Founder

    2012 - 2017

    qLabs is a co-working space for NYC founders, located in Flatiron. Started as a home for Quotidian Ventures portfolio companies, it has grown to be an independent community of entrepreneurs with its own unique culture and values.

2013 - 2014

  • Re-founder and CEO

    2013 - 2014

    Incubated a reboot of the company and product in early 2013. Hired the team, led the redesign of the app and the brand, and led product for subsequent iterations through late 2014.