Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- HB
- HU
Lists including Jeff
Investments
Finkargo
Total Funding: $36M
H2Ok Innovations
Total Funding: $7.1M
Naya Homes
Total Funding: $8M
Syrup Tech
Total Funding: $30M
BloXroute Labs
Total Funding: $82M
Hedron
Total Funding: $23M
BrightHire
Total Funding: $37M
MadeiraMadeira
Total Funding: $310M
Exporta Technologies
Total Funding: $1.3M
Alpha Vantage
Total Funding: $2M
Work Experience
General Partner and Co-Founder
2003
Seed stage venture capital firm based in Boston and New York City investing in ambitious founders leveraging the power of AI. With over $1 billion under management across seven seed funds and nine network funds, our portfolio includes BetterCloud, BitSight, Chief, Codecademy (acq: SKILL), FalconX, Firebase (acq: GOOG), MadeiraMadeira, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Nasuni, OpenFX, Splice, and ZestAI.
2012
Senior Lecturer
2012
Teach two second-year MBA classes in the entrepreneurship department: (1) Launching Technology Ventures (LTV), focusing on pre-product-market fit startups; and (2) Venture Capital Journey (VCJ), focusing on building a successful VC career. Authored over 80 HBS cases and teaching notes (a few popular cases include Bubble, Chief, Everlywell, Lightricks, Shippo, and Squire).
2016
Managing Partner and Founder
2016
A series of micro funds ($20+m in total across four funds) that invests in pre-seed and seed startups founded by recent Harvard graduates, primarily HBS. Portfolio companies include Aerovect, Akooda, Aliro, Allianca Hospitalar, AllSpice, Alpha Vantage, Amartha, Anko, B.A.I., Banyan Infrastructure, BlitzyAI, BoldVoice, Boundless, BoxBot, Clasp, Condor, Connie Health, Coprata, Covalent, Edukita, EmCasa, Fazeshift, Funding Societies, Getaway, Gryps, Habi, Halo Braid, Hardfin, Hemlane, HEVA, Hey Jane, Hive Health, Hue, Laminar, Local Locker, LovePop, Mosaic, Noetica, Noolie, OnRamp, Osmosis, Remento, Ribbon Health, Syrup, Tomorrow.io, Toolbox, TopLine Pro, UpEquity, Visor, Wordsworth, X-COR, and Zubale.
2019
Seed Investor
2019
FalconX is the largest, most reliable digitalasses prime brokerage for the world's leading institutions. Announced financing led by GIC and Tiger at an $8 billion valuation in 2022.
2021
Seed Investor
2021
LatAm's first supply chain platform for micro, small, and medium enterprises, empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics, and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations.
2024
Seed Investor
2024
OpenFX is redefining the future of global money movement. We're revolutizing global finance by enabling monety to flow as effortlessly as data, unbound by time zones, legacy systems, or banking hours. Our FX infrastructure transforms how finance teams operate, delivering cross-border transfers with industry-leading spreads, real-time settlement, and 24/7 availability.
2024
Seed Investor
2024
Autonomous custom software creation supercharged by Generative AI
2022
Seed Investor
2022
Noetica enables leading law and financial services firms to distill terms-level data for corporate debt into deal insights.
2021
Seed Investor
2021
Topline Pro enables service professionals to acquire direct business, faster. Essentially Shopify for service businesses.
2020
Board Observer
2020
AllSpice develops software tools for electrical engineering teams to accelerate the development of next-generation hardware products. The "Github of Hardware".