RD

Richard Dulude

Founding Partner at Underscore VC

United States

Education

Work Experience

  • 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.