Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Lists including Sophie
Investments
Fantuan
Total Funding: $12M
SKALE Labs
Total Funding: $18M
Witnet
Total Funding: $3M
SFOX
Total Funding: $23M
Hedera Hashgraph
Total Funding: $120M
Oasis Labs
Total Funding: $45M
Basis
Total Funding: $140M
Origin Protocol
Total Funding: $32M
Verdigris Technologies
Total Funding: $15M
Stacks
Total Funding: $83M
Kite
Total Funding: $220M
Vault12
Total Funding:
Work Experience
2017
Founding Partner
2017
Launched Oyster.vc in 2017 to back the infrastructure shaping the future of wealth—from private market plumbing to AI-native investing tools. I invest in the picks & shovels behind capital flow, not the shiny rocks everyone’s chasing. Representative Portfolios (aka my favorite children): Republic.com – World’s largest equity crowdfunding platform. Seed to unicorn. ForgeGlobal – Built the secondaries market before it was cool. D/XYZ – Took private market indexing public. Upside.gg – Tokenizing everything your financial advisor doesn’t understand. AltoIRA – Retirement accounts meet alt assets. Composer AI – Retail quant tools for people who don’t wear Patagonia vests (yet). VC Lab – Launchpad for the next generation of fund managers, which I swear is not a cult. ... Funds I, II, III (2.91x DPI), now rebrand as Republic Ventures (2025). Still not tired. Still early.
2023 - 2025
Strategic Advisor
2023 - 2025
Helping ambitious, diverse GPs bridge the GP/LP gap with capital, conviction, and sometimes caffeine.
2020 - 2025
Board Member
2020 - 2025
Led their series A, now Fantuan has became North America’s largest Asian food delivery platform. I joined for the dumplings, stayed for the cap table (their unit economics are phenomenal)
2018 - 2025
Board Observer
2018 - 2025
Genetically engineered probiotics for when your lifestyle outpaces your liver.
2015 - 2016
Managing Director
2015 - 2016
Learned a lot. Mostly how not to run a VC fund.
2011 - 2015
M&A, Entrepreneur In Residence
2011 - 2015
Started something during the JV work between FFD Studio x ES. Pitched, built, exited a media-tech company within 6 months. Accidentally became a founder. On purpose.
2010 - 2011
International Market Expansion
2010 - 2011
Set up JVs for James Cameron’s 3D tech empire. I didn’t get to meet Avatar, but I was born in the Avatar-town (Zhangjiajie)
2008 - 2010
Producer/ Host
2008 - 2010
Made documentaries, talk shows and travel shows. Ordered whiskey on the (Antarctic) rocks; Swam the Eurasia tunnel (got fined for jay-swimming). Hiked 3,000ft in Gstaad for a life-changing mushroom… Then I became a VC because betting on crypto apes seemed stable