There is no associate layer between you and a decision maker. The partner you meet first is the partner who takes your company to the table.
Investment team
Everyone here has built something. Any one of them can sponsor a company.
Ines Carvalho
General Partner
Two infrastructure exits, and wrote the first line of code at both.
Infrastructure, data, security
Tomas Novak
General Partner
Took a lending product through its first regulator examination.
Fintech, marketplaces
Noor Haddad
General Partner
Published on evaluation, then spent four years learning why it is hard.
Applied AI, health
Omar Rashid
Partner
Wrote documentation so good it became the company's best sales channel.
Developer tools
Hannah Feldman
Partner
Financed grid-scale storage before it was fundable.
Climate, space
Kenji Watanabe
Partner
Left a bench career to build the tooling the bench actually needed.
Bio, health
Wen Li Chang
Principal
Former founder. Meets companies at the earliest and messiest stage.
Sourcing, consumer
Platform
The people founders end up speaking to most after the wire.
Theo Lindqvist
Partner, Platform
Closed the first fifty enterprise contracts at a company with no sales team.
Talent, go-to-market
Sofia Marchetti
Head of Talent
Ran recruiting through a hiring freeze and out the other side of it.
Recruiting
Nikhil Varma
Head of Community
Runs the founder programming, and answers the group chat at midnight.
Founder programming
Rosa Iglesias
Head of Finance and Operations
Closed three fund audits without a single restatement.
Fund operations
Sam Whitfield
Chief of Staff
Keeps the Monday meeting to ninety minutes, which nobody thought possible.
Firm operations
How decisions get made
Small partnership, plain rules.
One sponsor, one room, one decision.
01
A partner sponsors the company
They own the relationship from the first email through the next round. No handoffs.
02
The partnership meets once a week
Monday morning, ninety minutes. Every live company is discussed while the founder is still waiting for an answer, not weeks later.
03
Conviction beats consensus
A single partner with strong conviction can write a first check. Unanimity would only get us the companies nobody argues about.
04
The no comes with reasons
Whoever sponsored the company writes the note. It is uncomfortable and it is the right way to do it.
The operators around us
About 200 people take our calls.
Engineers, designers, security leads, and go-to-market operators who invest alongside us in small amounts. They are not a logo wall. They are people we ask for help on behalf of founders, and they answer.
Technical advisors
Staff and principal engineers from infrastructure, security, and machine learning teams who will review an architecture over a call.
Go-to-market operators
First sales hires and growth leads who have taken a product from nothing to its first million in revenue.
Founders in the portfolio
The most used resource of all. Most questions a pre-seed founder has were answered two years ago by someone else on this list.
Working here
We hire rarely and slowly.
Two open roles.
If neither fits and you still think you should be here, write to us with what you would do in your first ninety days.
