Angel Investor | BOD @ Shogun (YC W18)

Investments

​Startups: Alto Pharmacy (Seed); Narrator.ai (Series A); Depict.ai (Seed); Fathom Video (Seed); Gorgias (Series B); Alba Orbital (Seed); CaptivateIQ (Series B); Deel (Series C); Vitally.io (Series A); Canvas (Seed); Navattic (Seed); Treble.ai (Seed); Cointracker (Series A); DEX Screener (Seed); Maverick (Seed); Givebutter (Seed); CreatorDAO (Seed); Hypotenuse.ai (Seed); Intelliga Health (Pre-Seed); Menda Health (Pre-Seed)

Firms: Initialized Capital (Fund VI); Pioneer Fund (Alumni Fund 2022)

Companies

Shogun

2015 - 2022
Cofounded Shogun, an eCommerce SaaS company for codeless creation and management of ecommerce websites.  ​~20,000 paying customers
Bootstrapped to $1.3M+, Y Combinator Winter 2018 batch.
​Backed by Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, VMG, Accel, and Insight Partners. $115M raised to date.
Press: Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C.

Glass + Marker

2011 - 2015
Co-founded, and served as COO for Glass + Marker; a creative agency for tech companies.
Initially catered to small startups (eg. Cruise, Soylent) and a few divisions of Google.
​Today Glass + Marker has a client roster that includes Slack, Zoom, Jeep, Niantic Labs/Pokemon Go!, WeWork, Snowflake, Crowdstrike, Stitch Fix, amongst others.
Bootstrapped to ~$2M AR, team of 10. G+M has grown spectacularly since 2015.
​https://glassandmarker.com/

Education

BA Political Science/ Public Policy - UC San Diego , 2009
Y Combinator - Winter 2018

Thoughts

Subscribe to my Substack for more (free) content.