We believe in getting down in the trenches and being there right alongside the most ambitious founders in the world as together, we fund and found lasting 100-year businesses. Prototype Capital is a pre-seed venture capital fund with 72+ founder scouts around the nation and our companies collectively are worth $2B+. Co-investors include First Round Capital, ICONIQ, Addition, Menlo Ventures, Amplify Partners, General Catalyst, Next Gen Venture Partners, Afore Capital, Slack, Y Combinator, NFX, Cowboy Ventures, Primary VC, and Comcast Ventures.Select Investments: - Hightouch: Invested in Pre-seed in May 2019. Raised Series B from ICONIQ - Faze Clan: Invested Pre-seed in 2018. They're now public $FAZE- Ghost Robotics: Invested in Pre-seed in April 2018. Autonomous, ground-based quadruped robots. Being acquired at $400M Valuation- Pylon: Invested in series A July 2024. Scale Customer Communication on Slack. Raised from General Catalyst.- XSET: Invested in Seed in June 2022. xset.com (personal investment). - Waffle Insurance: Invested at Seed in March 2022. buildingmachines.com (invested via SMV).- Healthtracka: Invested at Seed in March 2022. (invested via SMV). - AON3D: Invested Seed in June 2018. SineWave lead a $11.5m Series A. aon3d.com.- Kiwi bot: Invested at pre-seed in June 2018. Last-mile delivery for food delivery. kiwibot.com. - Aura Health: Invested in May 2018. - theCut: Invested in pre-seed in 2018. Marketplace to get find a barber (thecut.co)- CopyCat: Invested in pre-seed in 2018. www.copycat.dev. - Donut Media: Invested in seed in 2019. Acquired by Recurrent. - Dandy: Invested in Pre-seed in April 2019 and exited in Sept 2020. getdandy.com.

Afore Capital is a $124M venture fund that focuses on pre-seed stage exclusively and is based in San Francisco.

Investing in pre-seed CPG startups

Grishin Robotics is a venture capital firm that invests from seed to late stage in the smart hardware, consumer, robotics, and internet of things sectors. The firm was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.https://www.grishinrobotics.com/

https://techcrunch.com/author/nandeet-mehta/

Spent a few years mixing in the kitchen sink to launch EXO, the bug killer you're not afraid of. ❌🐜Reinventing home and garden pest control using plant-powered formulations with no known resistance & zero VOCs.* Coca-Cola Commercialization Program | Atlanta BridgeCommunity* Plug and Play Corporate Accelerator Startup* TERRA Rabobank Food + AgTech Startup

We believe you shouldn’t pay more to use clean, healthy products for your body and home.

Modern, natural science | Nature knows best-Society www.societyproducts.co-EXO www.sprayexo.com• Coca-Cola Commercialization Program Atlanta BridgeCommunity Cohort 2• Plug and Play Accelerator Food & Beverage Batch 2• TERRA by Rabobank + RocketSpace Food & AgTech Accelerator

Focusing young entrepreneurs on solving problems where governments and private industry have failed

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ThirdEye was acquired in Feb. 2017 where I led Business Development up to then (see TechCrunch article below). ThirdEye is a (completely bootstrapped) product that empowers visually impaired persons through object recognition--computer vision--via auditory feedback. ThirdEyeGlass.com

The Self-Innovation Lab is an accredited course at UCLA I co-created/lectured with Om Marwah that aims to turn students who have an academic interest into industry experts by giving them the power to understand how to think about their academic discipline creatively with new technologies and how industry problems can be solved by using their academic insights and their academic passions.

named to the inaugural Global Food Initiative 30 Under 30 by Janet Napolitano for Pyur Solutions and its work with non-toxic insecticides.

Anthos Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments that provide growth capital to companies. The firm typically invests in mid stage to emerging growth companies and invests across various parts of tech in US companies primarily.

ZTE | Campus Ambassador | Feb. 2016 - Dec. 2016Dell | DellU | Feb. 2015 - July 2015Ubisoft | Marketing Representative | Jan. 2015 - June 2015Samsung Electronics | Marketing Intern | Sept. 2014 - Feb. 2015T-Mobile | Business Development Intern | Sept. 2014 - Feb. 2015Lyft | Marketing Intern | March 2012 - Sept. 2012Nilkamal Limited | Intern | July 2012 - Sept. 2012

www.science-inc.comJoined in its earlier days (2014). Mike Jones, co-founder/ceo, took a chance on me and I worked directly with him and his team to help validate the initial ideas, markets, MVP's and companies. Additionally helped develop science's intern program and also assisted with portfolio companies.