Invests in
Skills
Investments
Omen AI
Total Funding:
Slingshot AI
Total Funding: $30M
Friend
Total Funding: $3M
Tab
Total Funding: $2.2M
SeaMind AI
Total Funding: $110K
Jhana
Total Funding: $2M
Gomry
Total Funding:
Fun
Total Funding: $14M
Swsh
Total Funding: $2M
Induced AI
Total Funding: $2M
0xPass
Total Funding: $2M
Lingopal
Total Funding: $2M
Greptile
Total Funding: $5M
Whop
Total Funding: $18M
micro1
Total Funding: $5M
Bytespace
Total Funding: $10K
July
Total Funding: $2M
222
Total Funding: $4M
Vesto
Total Funding: $3M
CausalTwin
Total Funding: $38K
Artificio
Total Funding: $200K
Biogenesis
Total Funding: $250K
Slise
Total Funding:
Howto Group
Total Funding:
Ecom Pilot
Total Funding: $200K
neusleep
Total Funding: $130K
CropSafe
Total Funding: $3M
Ghost Financial
Total Funding: $3M
Throne
Total Funding: $830K
Un1Feed
Total Funding: $1M
Nucleus
Total Funding: $24M
Posh
Total Funding: $60M
RemNote
Total Funding: $3M
Glowbom
Total Funding: $200K
Wander
Total Funding: $30M
Ex-human
Total Funding: $550K
Voices
Total Funding: $4M
SIMULATE
Total Funding: $64M
Work Experience
2021
Founder
2021
1 week. $10,000. Z Fellows are technical builders of all ages working on side projects and startups. We are your first believer. We’ve worked with high school dropouts, college students, and people with full-time jobs across a variety of industries, including consumer, social, enterprise, defense, healthcare, edtech, fintech, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, crypto, AI, ML, climate, biotech, and more.
2019
Founder
2019
We help ambitious young technical founders. FirstText.com
2019
Advisor
2019
2020
Founding Advisor
2020
2016
Board Member
2016
DoSomething.org is the largest non-profit that empowers youth to rock social causes around the globe. 5 million+ members strong globally!
2009
Founder
2009
Internapalooza is the largest gathering of Silicon Valley interns, young engineers, and STEM students in the world! Over 20,000 students from colleges across the nation have signed up for previous events. We come together to meet fantastic companies, experience insanely great technology, learn from remarkable visionaries, and forge connections between one another that will define the future. Previous speakers and attendees include: Ashton Kutcher, Travis Kalanick (founder of Uber), Kevin Hartz (founder of Eventbrite), Marissa Mayer (former CEO of Yahoo), Keith Rabois (VC at Founders Funds), Max Levchin (co-founder of PayPal) Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), Danae Ringelmann (co-founder of Indiegogo), Kara Swisher (co-founder of Re/code), and Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram).
Speaker
2009
I have given speeches on entrepreneurial related topics at SXSW, Duke University, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, USD, Drexel, Indiana University, University of Michigan, USC, University of Maryland, University of Illinois, Stanford, Boston College, and Boston University.
2011 - 2019
Co-Founder and COO
2011 - 2019
Built a number of social apps. One was called After School, which was a teen social network. Grew to 20m+ users. Acquihired by Ancestry.
2009 - 2009
Intern
2009 - 2009
2008 - 2008
Intern
2008 - 2008
I shadowed managing director, Albert Wenger. I was given the opportunity to sit in on a partner meeting, observe a board session, and watch people present to Albert.