Pedro Torres Picón
Founder, Investor, Tinkerer
Brooklyn, New York
Invests in
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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$200,000.00Target Investment:
$0.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Pedro
Investments
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.
2019
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.
2020
Founder
2020
Building something new in the crypto space.
Member
2019
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.