Investing

I’m fortunate to be an investor in some fantastic companies. Some of them are hiring; reach out if you’re interested in any of the listed roles!

Angel Portfolio

Alive Companies

• Automat - Automate your automations with video demonstrations and text descriptions.
• Banana Dev - Machine Learning Model Deployment on Serverless GPUs.
• Chroma - The AI-native open-source embedding database.
• Default - Capture inbound sales leads via customizable and integratabtle forms on your website.
• Embra - Fastest AI assistant for professionals.
• ExplainPaper - LLM powered research paper explanations.
• Galileo AI - Copilot for Interface Design.
• Ixana - High-speed Human-Computer Interfaces with Distrbuted Computing.
• Jangle - Distraction-Free Computing.
• Onward - Tool for schedule and calendar enhancement.
• Rime Labs - Generative synthesized speech with realistic and diverse voices.
• Roboflow - Full-Scale computer vision platform for developers.
• SF Compute - Affordable, on-demand pre-training clusters.
• Sprout - Create customizable, shareable virtual spaces for you and your favorite people.
• Theatre.js - JavaScript animation library + GUI.
• Trace - Create high-fidelity designs and animations in code.
• Vuecason - Combined 3D metal printing and machine tool.

Notable Outcomes

• Texts - Unified messaging application (acquired by Automattic)

Other Outcomes

• Lumen - The Augmented-Reality flashlight (Dead).

• Zaplib - Port your Javascript to Rust, incrimentally (Dead).

Grants Projects

I helped run the BUIDL Grants project, and contributed grants to makeabetter.computer