Currently
- 2025-: Building Salmon Labs, enterprise-grade AI data intelligence
- 2017-: Investing and helping early-stage startups
Previously/Other
- 2019-2024: I had the privilege to lead the investments and portfolio capital formation teams at Techstars Ventures, overseeing 3000+ portfolio companies ($1B+ AUM). Across my time there, I:
- Built out the firm’s quantitative investment model. This was used to deploy over $200M in capital
- Launched the Techstars Growth Co-Investment practice. Investments include Twelve (series B) and Openly (series C)
- Led fundraising diligence for Techstars Ventures 2022, Techstars Accelerators Fund 2021, and Advancing Cities Fund (co-managed by J.P. Morgan).
- 2014-2017: Head of Data Science & Analytics at Mattermark (YC, NEA, Foundry-backed). Designed and trained NLP models to understand the world better
- Board for Seldon (2019-2023) and Level (2020-2023)
- Mentor/Advisor for Pioneer, First Round Capital, Google Launchpad Accelerator, Alchemist Accelerator; lead mentor for various Techstars Accelerators
- Judge/speaker for Startup Weekend, Collision, TechCrunch Disrupt, Google Startup School
- Founded some startups that didn’t return retirement money