Currently
- 2017-present: I invest directly in early-stage startups
Previously/Other
- 2019-2024: I led Investment Management & Portfolio Capital at Techstars Ventures. I lead efforts around quantitative investing, later stage/growth co-investments, and investment management. Techstars is the largest early-stage investment firm ($1B+ AUM) with over 3000 portfolio companies. Highlights include:
- Built out the firm’s quantitative investment model. This was implemented in deploying over $200M in capital
- Launched the Techstars Co-Investment program. Investments include Twelve (series B) and Openly (series C)
- Along with the team, managed the overall Techstars investment portfolio
- Led various fundraising due diligence efforts 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