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
Advisors
Founders who pick up the phone
A small group of operators from the portfolio who take calls from companies working on the same problems they already solved. 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
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