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Sam Ellis

Asymmetric Value Creator

New York, New York

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $750,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Seed Investor

    2021

    Vanta, mappy, paar, Perfect Venue, Ravyn, Chiplytics, VF protocol, SightX

2020

  • Managing Partner

    2020

    A first-check software fund with an affinity for West Point grad co-founders. Low volume, high touch. Finding exceptional leaders in the West Point network to solve meaningful software problems, and providing them a framework of resources to execute.

2021 - 2022

  • Partner

    2021 - 2022

2019 - 2020

  • Quantitative Developer

    2019 - 2020

    Foundational quant dev on the Internal Alpha Capture platform team. Built applications to manage and orchestrate systematic trading signals.

2017 - 2019

  • Technical Co-Founder

    2017 - 2019

    Technical co-founder who wrote the first version of dutchie's software that helped achieve product market fit and raise capital. Also helped build several foundational components of the company like the team and culture. Left dutchie operationally around Series A, but still helping where I can strategically.

2016 - 2017

  • Software Engineer

    2016 - 2017

    Full-stack software engineer working on the web application portion of the core offering, along with computer vision problems that included object recognition and optical character recognition. Also developed the initial cloud infrastructure on AWS.

2013 - 2016

  • Software Developer

    2013 - 2016

2012 - 2012

  • Intern (Operations Research and Computer Vision)

    2012 - 2012

    Worked on an interdisciplinary engineering team building a 3D printed, modular UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). Developed a linear programming model that solved for the coordinates of internal components to keep the UAV balanced. Also worked on using an android phone for obstacle avoidance using optical flow.