SP

Stewart Pond

Partner @ Operator Stack Fund

San Francisco, California

VC

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $350,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $250,000.00

Skills

Financial Modeling
Financial Analysis
Fixed Income Portfolio Management
Valuation
Capital Markets
Fixed Income
Hedge Funds
Asset Management

Education

Investments

Glow

Series A

Total Funding: $35M

Farther Finance

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Socure

Series D

Total Funding: $650M

Evinced

Series A

Total Funding: $58M

Enveil

Series A

Total Funding: $10

Eightfold AI

Series C

Total Funding: $390M

Work Experience

Operator Stack Fund

2024

  • Partner

    2024

    Backing founders at the pre-seed/seed stage across Enterprise software, Fintech, Supply Chain/Logistics, and AI. Some of our investments include: Nue.io Distributional Layer2 Loop Logistics Bluedot Good Drone Company (GDC) Opal Camera Vooma Greenscreens.ai

Cota Capital

2021 - 2024

  • Principal

    2021 - 2024

    I led early stage investment opportunities (Seed - Series B) across Enterprise B2B, Fintech, Insurtech, Proptech and Vertical SaaS. Led investments in: Farther Finance Radius Agent Glow Layr Token.io Qu POS Citcon

Evinced

2021 - 2021

  • Investor - Series A

    2021 - 2021

Enveil

2020 - 2021

  • Investor - Series A

    2020 - 2021

Capital One

2018 - 2021

  • Senior Associate - Capital One Ventures

    2018 - 2021

    Sourced and Led Investments in: Observe, Evinced, Socure, Snowflake, Enveil, Styra (OPA), CodeSignal, Eightfold.ai, OvationCXM (fka Boomtown)

Hercules Capital

2016 - 2018

  • Venture Debt & Equity

    2016 - 2018

Medley Management Inc

2014 - 2016

  • Private Credit Team

    2014 - 2016

Guggenheim Investments

2011 - 2014

  • Portfolio Manager

    2011 - 2014