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Gary Pesola

Investor at Adverb Ventures

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $75,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Investor

    2024

    Adverb Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We invest $500K-$5M in companies from pre-seed to Series A. If you're working on something new, we'd love to learn more: gary@adverb.vc.

2023 - 2024

  • Investor

    2023 - 2024

2022 - 2023

  • Writing

    2022 - 2023

    https://gpesola.substack.com/

2022 - 2023

  • Investment Professional

    2022 - 2023

    Enterprise Tech Team

2022 - 2022

  • Co-Founder

    2022 - 2022

    We built a tool for consumers to help them on the job hunt. Learned that even if people really like the product, it was very hard to monetize and that we chose the wrong side of the market to monetize from

  • Venture Fellow

    2021 - 2022

    Got to learn a ton about startups, venture capital, and ultimately encouraged me to build Jackfruit

2021 - 2021

  • Investment Banking Summer Analyst

    2021 - 2021

    Learned how to grind, covered financial institutions, received return offer but knew the opportunity cost to go back was too high

  • Co-Founder

    2020 - 2021

    We built an investment fund that would allow any student (regardless of school) to apply to be a part of, raised $50,000, and invested it across 5 industry groups during university

  • Investment Fellow

    2020 - 2021

    Fellowship during university to learn more about PE and special situations

2020 - 2021

  • Business Strategy Intern

    2020 - 2021

    Worked hard to use help companies track and use carbon credits