Team
Operators first, investors second.
Everyone here shipped products, missed numbers, and had the uncomfortable conversations before they started writing checks. It changes the kind of advice you get.
Amara Okafor
Founding Partner
Amara spent eleven years building payments products before writing a check, which is why she is usually the partner asking about reconciliation on a first call. She started the firm in 2016 after a decade of watching good companies get bad advice.
- Focus
- Fintech, payments, infrastructure
- Before
- VP Product, Stripe
- Boards
- Ledgerly, Payform, Northgate
David Chen
Founding Partner
David built and sold a data infrastructure company, then spent two years as an operator inside the acquirer, which he describes as the most useful education of his career. He works closest with founders selling into large organizations for the first time.
- Focus
- Enterprise software, security, go-to-market
- Before
- Founder and CEO, Datastream
- Boards
- Sentinel, Bastion, Quantum Leap
Priya Nair
Partner
Priya trained as a systems engineer and still reads the code. She joined in 2019 and leads most of our infrastructure investments, where her first question tends to be what breaks at a hundred times the current load.
- Focus
- AI systems, developer tools
- Before
- Principal, Lightspeed
- Boards
- Forge, Riverbed, Cascade
Marcus Webb
Partner
Marcus ran growth at a company that went from two hundred thousand to nine million users in three years, and is candid that much of it was timing. He is the partner founders call when the funnel stops working and nobody knows why.
- Focus
- Consumer, commerce, growth
- Before
- Head of Growth, Notion
- Boards
- Cartwheel, Shelfwise, Pixelford
Sofia Ramos
Partner, Accelerator
Sofia runs the accelerator and sets the bar for what gets into it. She was a CTO twice, once badly, and talks openly about the first one because she thinks founders learn more from that story.
- Focus
- Early-stage product, technical teams
- Before
- CTO, Vercel
- Boards
- Coral, Aperture, Mentormind
Grace Bennett
Chief Financial Officer
Grace built the finance function at a company that grew from forty to two thousand people, and now keeps ours honest. Portfolio founders borrow her for board decks, pricing models, and the first real budget.
- Focus
- Fund operations, portfolio finance
- Before
- CFO, Figma
Founders
The people this firm is for
We are easier to judge by who we backed than by anything we write about ourselves. Here is one founder from each sector we invest in, and where to read the rest of the story.
Naomi Callender
Co-founder and CTO
Built deterministic-polishing correction models in an academic optics group, then discovered no fab could actually run them in the loop.
Foceon · AI & ML
Rania Nasser
Co-founder and CTO
Built the internal version at a previous employer and could not get it licensed out.
Terra Grid · Climate
Hana Ito
Co-founder and CEO
Third company. The first one worked and the second one taught more.
Cartwheel · Commerce
Bilal Nasser
Co-founder and CTO
Left a research group to find out whether the work survived contact with customers.
Cascade · Developer Tools
Nils Lindqvist
Co-founder and CEO
Spent a decade on the operations side of this industry before rebuilding the software for it.
Mentormind · Education
Chiara Moreau
Co-founder and CTO
Spent four years on the infrastructure team this product replaces.
Bastion · Enterprise SaaS
Katya Marek
Co-founder and CTO
Wrote the migration tooling twice, once badly, and still talks about the first one.
Payform · Fintech
Hana Fujimoto
Co-founder and CEO
Came from the regulator side, which is unusual and turns out to matter.
Pixelford · Gaming
Ren Fujimoto
Co-founder and CEO
Sold into this market for eight years before deciding the product was the problem.
Coral · Healthcare
Advisors
Operators who pick up the phone
People who take calls from companies working on a problem they already solved. Some of them run companies we backed and some have no connection to the fund at all. Nobody here is paid to be a name on a page.
Liam O'Brien
Founder, Formation
Marketplaces and operations
Yuki Tanaka
Design Partner, IDEO
Brand and product narrative
Nadia Petrova
Former CTO, Solaris
Hardware and energy systems
Kwame Asante
Founder, Terra Grid
Selling into regulated markets
Tom Fischer
Co-founder, Forge
Developer adoption
Elena Vasquez
CEO, Nimbus AI
Enterprise AI deployment
Working here
We hire rarely and openly.
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