$Xm venture capital fund writing $25k - $200k checks into early stage technology companies. We invest across consumer and b2b.Fund 1 investments:- Proper AI (Seed)- Everyday Kitchens fka. Virtual Kitchen Co (Seed)- Jiffy (Seed)- Geologie (Seed)- Prizepool: Seed- CommandDot (Seed)- Confirm (Seed)- Maximus (Seed)- Pace (Seed)- Grata (Seed)- Wax Insurance (Seed)- Dorsal (Seed)- Fuse Inventory (Seed)- Nira (Series A)- Tastenote (Seed)- Curbside Health (Seed)- Neptyne (Preseed)- Rare Candy (Seed)- PatentPal (Pre-Seed)- Aware Health (Seed)- Noetica (Seed)- Studyverse (Seed)- Heylo (Seed)- PetPair (Seed)

We are a leading seed stage venture capital fund that invests in world class entrepreneurs. We know that finding product market fit is the hardest thing that you can do -- we can help you get there through access to our Product Council with over 100 of the top product leaders from the technology industry. I focus on consumer, real estate, b2b, and food investments and specialize in fundraising and partnership strategy.Deals that I brought to the partnership and/or invested in:- Proper AI- PrizePool- Jiffy- Tone (FKA SaveMySales)- Geologie- CommandDot- Grata- Rally LawMy personal angel investments are:- Wealthfront (Series B)- Periscope Data (Angel, Seed) -- Acquired by SiSense- Philz Coffee (Series A)- Arthena (Seed)- Chewse (Seed)- MemSQL (Series C)- iLabService YC S18 (Seed)- apizza (Seed)Limited Partnerships:- March Capital Opportunity Fund (LP, Fund I)- March Capital Opportunity Fund (LP, Fund II)- March Capital Opportunity Fund (LP, Fund III)- Upside Partnership (LP, Fund I)- Lowercase Capital (LP, Frontier Parallel)

Come be our neighbors and enjoy world class living! Condo for sale this summer in partnership with Form + Field Design and John Lum Architects. Former owner/operator of top rated Airbnb destination in Santa Cruz. Guests from around the world voted us 14-time consecutive Superhosts and we were invited to be part of the exclusive Airbnb Plus program. Our property was featured in numerous major design magazines and used to film a segment for Shark Tank's Season 4! Exited with over 28% IRR over 5 years.

Purplemana was an AI collectible marketplace:- Co-wrote computer vision and pricing systems that automatically identified, conditioned, and priced 800,000 trading cards within 900ms.- Spidered 100m price points to generate accurate bid/ask pricing for collectibles- Remotely hired and managed three engineers across time zones and technology stacks- Built core stack using python, javascript, flask, postgres, timescaledb, pytorch, yolo, react, and chatgpt

Partnering with VCs and Startups

Building a profitable partner ecosystem for Google Cloud.

6x MOIC fund invested in early stage startups and assist in strategy, fundraising, and partnerships. We have co-invested alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Bling, DFJ, Slow, Foundation, Upside, Lowercase, NEA, Gradient, Mayfield, Social + Capital, and numerous other top funds and publicly traded companies.- Lever (Series A) -- Acquired by Hired.com all cash- Carta (Series A)- MemSQL (Series C)- Pillow (Seed) -- Acquired by Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE)- Periscope Data (Series A) -- Acquired by SiSense- Remote Year (Series A)- Sapling (Seed)- Passport (Seed)- Stensul (Seed)- Blueberry Pediatrics YC W17 (Seed)- Blanket (Seed)LP Position:- Summit Fund (LP, Fund I)

Artillery was a streaming gaming technology company that was before its time. For four years, I led the company as CEO. We were ultimately unsuccessful in building a giant game streaming platform.- Raised $11m across Seed and Series A rounds from top global investors and corporations- Led distribution partnerships domestically and internationally with Day9TV and Tencent granting access to 10M MAUs.- Led secondary share sale providing liquidity to early investors and employees- Assembled world class team of engineers and artists hailing from Google, Niantic, Palantir, and others

- Product Manager, Facebook for Blackberry- Product Manager, Facebook for IPad (Alpha)- Preloaded Facebook on over 100m devices- Founding member of Facebook's Platform Partnerships team- Facebook's first partner engineer

Profitable importer, wholesaler, and retailer of business and consumer electronic items. Grew revenue to $630,000 with no full time employees. Used software and wrote software to automate processes. Built 4 brand names and exited via private sale to business partner.

- 2006 Google OC Award: Google Toolbar Distribution (Google's second highest honor)- Lead technical liaison on 35 deals for Google Toolbar distribution and ISP Syndication- Our team distributed hundreds of millions of Toolbars generating over over $1 Billion USD in deal value- Four of our deals were featured in the Wall Street Journal

II-VI is the world's leading CO2 laser lens manufacturer. At II-VI, I was responsible for sales, pricing, and marketing strategy for South Asia and Southeast Asia. Our largest markets were China and Taiwan. Through on-site visits and consultative selling, we were able to grow the business by 10% in 2005.

Startup that developed solutions for higher education. Created social networking solution for on-campus clubs. Clients include University of Rochester and Barnes & Noble Booksellers.

Wrote software to help simplify lengthy business processes. Helped shorten 20 hour tasks into 15 minutes by writing Java applications from ideation to completion, including documentation.Some of the applications have been in use for years since their creation.