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Pre Series A Investor via Silicon Valley Syndicate Club
Jun 2022
Genus AI is a generative AI platform for D2C and e-commerce brands. The platform generates product catalog images, seed audiences, copy and video to help brands grow efficiently across social channels such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest and X. Leading global brands are already using the platform with 10 million product images generated in 2023 alone. The platform is organized into a Creative Hub, Audience Hub and Reporting Hub to simplify and democratize access to cutting edge AI solutions for creative and performance marketers. Genus AI’s mission is to make AI accessible to brands of any size and support them in their growth.
Bridge Round (Pre Series B) Investor via Silicon Valley Syndicate Club
Jan 2022
Somos un grupo de restaurantes de personas que aman hacer buena comida para personas que aman comer bien
Series F Investor via Silicon Valley Syndicate Club
Sep 2021
Patreon is the best place for creators to build community with their biggest fans, share exclusive work, and turn their passions into lasting creative businesses.
Hundreds of thousands of video creators, podcasters, musicians, writers, game developers, and more are achieving creative and financial freedom doing what they love on Patreon, powered directly by fans who love what they do.
Our endgame? A future where creators are in control, and real community thrives.
Series A Investor via Silicon Valley Syndicate Club
Apr 2021
Instreamatic is a Google-backed AI marketing company that helps brands better understand consumers.
Get in touch via email at go@instreamatic.com to learn more.
Bridge Round (Pre Series B) Investor via Silicon Valley Syndicate Club
Jan 2021
Vyng has built a next-generation phone platform that visualizes every call.
Vyng is an LA-based company that transforms how conversations start on mobile by bringing emotion to the lockscreen. Vyng’s app lets users set videos as ringtones for friends, playing a fresh video on the lockscreen with every call. Vyng boasts 3 Billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2017. The company is backed by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Google Ventures partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.
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What We're Building
With over 5 million downloads, Vyng transforms a user’s caller ID into a video chosen by either the user or the incoming caller. The Vyng phone dialer replacement allows users to create their own Vyngtone or caller ID, or choose from a curated library of videos arranged by interest channels. The company has three current patents for its proprietary technology delivering video through calls and contextual texting.
Mobile notifications, including incoming phone calls, have long been relegated to a generic, sterile design that lacks creativity. Believing in the untapped potential of lockscreens, Vyng facilitates the quickest, most impactful way to communicate through the delivery of a video to the lockscreen of a device. Since Vyng’s launch of Vyngtones last year, it has served over three billion videos in 170 countries and is driving engagement in regions like South Asia and North Africa where smartphone adoption continues to grow rapidly.
Series A Investor via Silicon Valley Syndicate Club
Jan 2021
Pinscreen is an American technology company and VFX studio that develops the most advanced generative AI technologies for film production and interactive experiences with its headquarter in Los Angeles and branch in Abu Dhabi (UAE).
The company offers end-to-end solutions for AI lip sync, face reenactment, face swaps, de-aging, and avatar digitization. Pinscreen works with some of the most prolific film makers and production studios, and its customers include Netflix, Amazon Studios, Miramax, Warner Bros, Apple, Google, Adobe, DARPA.
Among its accolades, in 2019, Pinscreen developed the first real-time deepfake technology which was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and SIGGRAPH 2020. The company is also the first to demonstrate AI lip sync for a complete feature film, and the ability to process over thousands of 4K HDR movie shots within a year. Pinscreen is part of the NVIDIA Inception Program and won the Epic MegaGrants in 2020.
Pinscreen was founded in 2015 by Prof. Hao Li, MIT TR35 winner and Professor of Computer Vision at MBZUAI. He is known for his contributions in Apple’s Animoji technology, the reenactment of Paul Walker in Furious 7, and actively innovates in the space of neural rendering, deepfakes, and digital humans.
Angel Investor
May 2017
Our future, both on Earth and in space, is a story about all of us. We believe that everyone should be informed, educated and inspired to help shape what’s happening now and what happens next.
Sen’s solution is to democratize space, using videos that are accessible to everyone. Together we can learn about planetary change and space exploration- allowing us all to be informed guardians of our home planet and explorers of space.
We hope our videos inspire global change that will benefit all humanity. Please join us on our mission. Visit sen.com to find out more.
Angel Investor Over Multiple Rounds
May 2017
Our future, both on Earth and in space, is a story about all of us. We believe that everyone should be informed, educated and inspired to help shape what’s happening now and what happens next.
Sen’s solution is to democratize space, using videos that are accessible to everyone. Together we can learn about planetary change and space exploration- allowing us all to be informed guardians of our home planet and explorers of space.
We hope our videos inspire global change that will benefit all humanity. Please join us on our mission. Visit sen.com to find out more.
Investor / Search & Recovery Team
Aug 2016
A fierce pirate wielding a deadly weapon, brought about the untimely demise of the Het Wapen van Amsterdam, also known in Icelandic folklore as ‘The Goldship’. After attacking the ship and its crew with a relentless storm, the pirate known as Mother Earth now holds the ship and its untold treasures in a hidden jail beneath the coastal sands of Iceland. Why is the world so fascinated with tales of lost treasure and pirates?
Dripping with pearls, uncut diamonds, gold, silver, copper, silk, wine and spirits, the Het Wapen van Amsterdam, flagship of the Dutch, was laid to rest on the banks of Iceland’s Skeiðarársandur estuary on 19th September 1667 after fierce storms swept it away from the rest of its fleet while returning from a routine tax collection run from the Dutch colonies.
Our mission is to locate and recover ‘The Goldship’, Iceland’s legendary sunken ship. Using state of the art proven technology and the unwavering confidence of a new team of entrepreneurs, we’ve breathed new life into this adventure so that we may achieve the dream of the brave Icelandic explorers of the past. We’re looking for like minded adventurers to help us in our search. If you’re an investor, a search and recovery technologist, TV/Film maker, journalist or just love this stuff then get in touch!
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Jan 2024
Tasl.ai is an innovative aggregation platform designed to enable AI builders to develop bespoke AI solutions. It offers a unique ecosystem for Builders, Users, and Peer Reviewers, facilitating the creation, utilization, and enhancement of AI bots curated with human expertise for specific purposes.
2022
Pre Series A Investor via Silicon Valley Syndicate Club
Jun 2022
Genus AI is a generative AI platform for D2C and e-commerce brands. The platform generates product catalog images, seed audiences, copy and video to help brands grow efficiently across social channels such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest and X. Leading global brands are already using the platform with 10 million product images generated in 2023 alone. The platform is organized into a Creative Hub, Audience Hub and Reporting Hub to simplify and democratize access to cutting edge AI solutions for creative and performance marketers. Genus AI’s mission is to make AI accessible to brands of any size and support them in their growth.
Bridge Round (Pre Series B) Investor via Silicon Valley Syndicate Club
Jan 2022
Somos un grupo de restaurantes de personas que aman hacer buena comida para personas que aman comer bien
2021
Series F Investor via Silicon Valley Syndicate Club
Sep 2021
Patreon is the best place for creators to build community with their biggest fans, share exclusive work, and turn their passions into lasting creative businesses.
Hundreds of thousands of video creators, podcasters, musicians, writers, game developers, and more are achieving creative and financial freedom doing what they love on Patreon, powered directly by fans who love what they do.
Our endgame? A future where creators are in control, and real community thrives.
Series A Investor via Silicon Valley Syndicate Club
Apr 2021
Instreamatic is a Google-backed AI marketing company that helps brands better understand consumers.
Get in touch via email at go@instreamatic.com to learn more.
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