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)
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.
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/
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
Y Combinator - Winter 2018
Thoughts
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