Team
We build before we back
Fifteen years shipping AI and data platforms inside the companies that built this category, and a decade adjacent to the funds and labs where the next ones start.
Built
Salesforce
Tech lead on the Einstein AI platform, search infrastructure, and analytics.
Ava Labs
Engineering leader on data and API platforms at protocol scale.
Matterport
Staff engineer and senior manager through the IPO.
Amazon
Infrastructure at consumer scale.
Invested and advised
SoftBank
Technical advisor on due diligence across enterprise SaaS, data, AI, edge, and robotics.
Founded and exited
Built and sold an AI company for knowledge work in legal, healthcare, and voice.
VC Lab · Pi Ventures
Venture fellowships, one with a sub-10% acceptance rate.
Angel investing
Personal checks across frontier models, compute, and AI applications.
Teaching and research
USC Viterbi
Instructor on AI agents and copilots.
Published research
arXiv papers on quantum-inspired and equivariant machine learning, plus 55+ articles on AI systems.
Six US patents
System architecture and cloud infrastructure, commercially licensed.
CMU · Stanford · Draper
Mentor and advisor at the Swartz Center, the Stanford Web3 and AI Research Group, and DraperU, where much of our deal flow starts.
- 15+
- Years building AI and data platforms
- 6
- US patents in systems and cloud
- 10+
- Companies built inside
- 45+
- AI founders in the active network
- 2 wks
- Typical time to a decision