Investing

In addition to building companies, I want to help empower fellow founders to help build lasting businesses that stand the test of time.

I Invest:

1. Through my fund, Prototype Capital, a distributed venture capital fund on a mission to help ambitious founders around the country build lasting businesses around products that change the status quo by 10x. E.g.,
   1. Hightouch: Invested in May 2019 at Pre-Seed. Raised Series B at $400M+ post-money from ICONIQ
   2. Faze Clan: Invested in 2018 at Pre-seed. They’re now public $FAZE
   3. Ghost Robotics: Invested in 2018 at Pre-seed. Autonomous, ground-based quadruped robots. In the process of being acquired for $400M
   4. AON3D. Invested in 2018 at Seed. Raised $11.5M Series A from Sinewave.
   5. Kiwibot: Invested in June 2018 at Pre-seed. Last-mile delivery for food delivery.
   6. Dandy. Invested in April 2019 and exited in Sept 2020.
   7. Aura Health. Invested in May 2018 at Seed.
   8. theCut: Invested in May 2018 at Pre-seed. Marketplace to get find a barber.
   9. CopyCat: Invested in 2019 at Pre-seed. Invested in Dec 2018.
   10. Donut Media. Invested in 2019 at Seed. Acquired by Recurrent
2. Personally. E.g.,
   1. Pylon: Invested in 2023 at Seed. Scale Customer Communication on Slack (personal investment). Raised from General Catalyst
   2. ViaBot: Invested in 2022 at Seed. viabot.com (personal investment). Invested in June 2022.
   3. Building Machines: Invested in 2022 at Seed. buildingmachines.com (personal investment). Invested in March 2022.
   4. Polymath Robotics: Invested in 2022 at Seed. (personal investment). Invested in March 2022.
3. Via other funds I’m associated with:
   1. Afore Capital: A Pre-Seed $124M Fund based in San Francisco