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Min Investment:
$750,000.00Max Investment:
$3,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
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Investments
Work Experience
2015
Founding Partner
2015
Underscore VC is an early-stage, venture capital firm backing bold entrepreneurs with an aligned community designed to fit each startup's unique needs.
2012 - 2024
Angel Investor
2012 - 2024
Emerged Investments • Notion (Future of Work Application, from Seed with Sequoia), • Chainlink (Open Infrastructure, led Seed with Underscore VC), • LabelBox (AI Infrastructure, from Seed, A16Z Follow On), • Ripple Labs (FinTech Infrastructure, from Series A with Blockchain Capital), • OpenPhone (Commerce, Application, from Series A with Craft), • Mercury Bank (FinTech Infrastructure, from Series A, A16Z Follow On), Emerging Investments • AltoIRA (FinTech, Application, from Series A with Sequoia), • MindsDB (Open Source, Infrastructure, from Seed with Benchmark), • Glif (AI/ML, Infrastructure, from Seed with Union Square & A16Z), • Airmeet (Future of Work, from Series A with Accel, Redpoint, & Sequoia), • Passport (Commerce, SaaS, B2B, from Series B with TCV), • Clara (FinTech, Payments, from Series B with General Catalyst) • Jetty (FinTech, from Series B with Ribbit & Khosla), • Abra (FinTech, Web3, from Series A with Blockchain Capital), • Here (Future of Work, from Series A with Lightspeed & Firstmark), • Abodu (Real Estate Tech, from Series A with Initialized & Norwest), • SmartHop (Commerce, Logistics, from Series B with Union Square), • Knowde (Vertical Marketplaces, from Series B with Sequoia & Coatue), • Pika (Generative AI, Infrastructure, from Series B with Lightspeed) • STRIVR (XR, from Series B with Georgian), • Ubiquity6 (XR, from Series B with KPCB, Index, & Benchmark), • FireFly (AdTech, from Series B, with Google Ventures & Lightspeed), • SkySafe (Defense Tech, from Series B with Icon & A16Z), • Foresight Health (HealthTech, from Series B with Sequoia & Polaris), • Eight Sleep (HealthTech, from Series B with Craft)
2013 - 2015
Venture Investor (Associate)
2013 - 2015
Top decile generalist venture capital fund focused on seed stage investments in companies and early successes like Uber, Venmo, Coupang, PillPack, and Airtable.
2010 - 2013
D2C E-Commerce (Digital Brand Intelligence)
2010 - 2013
Helped launch and grow the Direct-to-Consumer E-Commerce business from $0M to become the fastest-growing channel in the company globally.
2008 - 2009
iTunes, Engineering (Front/Back-End Developer)
2008 - 2009
Responsible for all content ranking algorithms at the launch of the first iTunes and iPod content products that brought music purchasing and distribution online.
2006 - 2008
FX Trading (Vega-Volatility Model Developer)
2007 - 2008
Owned vega-volatility models for select currency pairs such as the AUD/USD and JPY/USD pairs.
Digital Rights Management (Developer)
2006 - 2007
Launched the company's first dynamically rendered intranet and internet.