Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$50,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Education
Lists including Catherine
Investments
Anthology
Total Funding: $500K
BetterYou
Total Funding: $8M
Kolors
Total Funding: $20M
Akiba Digital
Total Funding: $100K
Vitrina A.I.
Total Funding:
Multiple
Total Funding: $2M
Bundle
Total Funding:
Operative Intelligence
Total Funding: $4M
Polybase
Total Funding: $2M
Aklivity
Total Funding: $4M
Work Experience
2024
Founder & CEO
2024
For over a decade, I saw how hard my parents worked as they grew their fire protection business. The business provided me and my younger brother with an upbringing that lacked nothing. While my dad secretly hoped that one of us would take over the family business, my parents also wanted us to follow our own paths. After a decade of working in the tech sector, I began to see all of the challenges at my parents' business in a new light. Now, I've come full circle to helping my parents and those like them take their businesses to the next level - all while reducing stress and headaches. At Essential, we are motivated every day by this mission and by our amazing customers, who are among the hardest-working people we know.
2017 - 2023
Managing Partner at Basecamp Fund (Seed Fund)
2017 - 2023
With > $1 billion in assets under management, Alumni Ventures (av.vc) provides individual accredited investors with professional-grade, diversified venture portfolios. I managed pre-seed and seed investments at Alumni Ventures through the Basecamp Fund (Seed Fund).
2016 - 2017
Director of Product
2016 - 2017
First Product Manager hire for NEA-backed fraud detection startup utilizing proprietary unsupervised machine learning tech. Promoted to Product Line Manager and became lead PM for the AI Platform and Frontend engineering teams. Then promoted to Director of Product, reporting to the CEO and managing a cross functional team across product and marketing. Company revenue increased 8x during my tenure.
2015 - 2016
Product Lead, Forward Deployed Product Development
2015 - 2016
On the small, elite team that brainstormed, built out, and scaled Monocle. Co-authored 3 patents.
2014 - 2015
Co-Founder
2014 - 2015
Fancy That: A retail AI company with a bidding platform for consumers and a pricing strategist for retailers.
2013 - 2013
Associate Product Manager Intern
2013 - 2013
On the Google Wallet mobile team. Was assigned ownership over multiple features as the internship progressed (was initially expected to handle just one). Received positive recognition from all levels up through the Director (3 levels above) by the end of the internship.
2012 - 2012
Software Engineering Intern
2012 - 2012
On the infrastructure team. Deployed multi-threaded, scalable programs to efficiently analyze and summarize 10s of millions of important metrics created daily.