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Min Investment:
$2,000,000.00Max Investment:
$2,500,000.00Target Investment:
$2,000,000.00
Skills
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Investments
Work Experience
2024
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
2024
With Max Altman and Ben Braverman—investing in what’s next.
Visiting Scholar
2011
Member of Bud Mishra's Bioinformatics laboratory at the Courant Institute on machine learning, signaling games, and cybersecurity.
2019 - 2022
Founder & CEO
2019 - 2022
Financial Services for SMBs. Raised from Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital, and Valar Ventures. Acquired by Plastiq in 2022 for $130M. (https://city-cap.com/nearside-acquired-plastiq-130-million/)
2018 - 2019
Entrepreneur in Residence
2018 - 2019
Interviewed small business owners, listened to founders, wrote some code.
2016 - 2018
Head of Capital Data Science
2016 - 2018
Headed up the Data Science/ML team at Square Capital where we focused on the following three things: 1) Default, Underwriting, and Macroeconomic Risk, 2) Business, Operations, and Marketing Optimization, and 3) Moonshot Research and Product Development.
2013 - 2016
Founder/CEO
2013 - 2016
Predicted churn for enterprises. Raised from GV, Initialized Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Y Combinator (W14), Sumon Sadhu, and Kevin Mahaffey. Acquired by Square ($SQ) in 2016.
2012 - 2013
Lead Data Scientist
2012 - 2013
Was the first data scientist at Causes and led a team to build user segmentation models, data ETL, internal reporting and dashboards, and LTV forecasting. Acquired by Brigade in 2014.
2011 - 2012
Data Scientist
2011 - 2012
Was the first data scientist and worked on LTV forecasting, channel attribution, and malware detection models.