I love to build and back legendary companies. Since 2010, I have backed many unicorns from early-stage mostly seed, preseed and sometimes first check such as Gusto, Airtable, Ginkgo Bioworks, Boom, Benchling, Carta, Human Interest, ClearTax, Linear (first check), Ironclad, Astra, Astranis, Superhuman, Mercury (first check), Solugen, Relativity Space, Stoke Aerospace (first check) and many others.
I founded and ran Golden (backed by a16z, Founders Fund, Giga Fund, DCVC, and others), where we built a large knowledge graph and interface to view topics. This was acquired by ComplyAdvantage in 2024. I also previously co-founded Heyzap, which sold to a public company in 2016. I was accepted into Y Combinator in 2008 and have attended every single Demo Day since then, taking detailed notes on which companies I would back, which ones I would not then looking back on which ones turned out to work. I have a Master’s degree in Engineering from the Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge where I learned everything from Stirling engines to design to how the eye functions and manufacturing of the world’s products. I live in the bay area.
Many times I will think on a thesis for 10+ years before I come across the correct market timing to be the first cheque into the company. I have thousands of startups in my head that I’m either waiting for, seeking, shaping or in the case of Golden - building. In a nutshell, the objective is to solve the world’s largest problems via backing and building the best founding teams.