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Co-Founder and Investor
Oct 2023
Meet your home operating system.
Home security should reinforce your peace of mind. You deserve a sanctuary, one that gives you the freedom to live your life with the people that matter most. That’s why we created something entirely new.
Sauron is an autonomous platform for the perimeter of your home. It works discreetly in the background to reliably identify potential threats in all environmental conditions and it instantly recognizes who’s part of your inner circle.
We provide a bespoke white-glove service, ensuring that each client’s security platform is installed with precision and care, swiftly and without disrupting the comfort or aesthetics of their home.
To complement the technology, Sauron leverages its Intelligent Response and Intrusion Suppression (IRIS) Command Center, staffed 24/7 by exceptionally trained agents with diverse backgrounds in law enforcement, military service, executive protection, and other critical security fields. The team builds relationships with local police departments to ensure a rapid police response to verified security incidents.
Co-Founder and Investor
May 2022
Exowatt is a next generation renewable energy company offering commercial and industrial customers a modular full-stack energy solution that can provide dispatchable power and heat for up to 24 hours per day, specifically designed to meet the needs of energy-intensive applications such as data centers. Our mission is clear, to make sustainable renewable energy always available and almost free.
Co-Founder and Investor
Jun 2020
OpenStore is on a mission to inspire entrepreneurs and shoppers to find something new. We give entrepreneurs the simplest way to sell their e-commerce businesses and receive liquidity. We’ve paid millions of dollars to entrepreneurs all over the country, freeing them up to start new companies, spend time with family, or take a well-deserved break.
We manage the largest number of Shopify brands with over 100,000 products across apparel, beauty, home goods, and electronics. Our team of e-commerce experts and engineers uses our proprietary technology and tooling, and advantages from our size, to grow our brands and reach more customers.
Two million people have purchased OpenStore products, and soon, we’ll launch a consumer shopping app, helping people discover products in an all-new way.
Co-Founder and Investor
May 2019
Villa is Californias #1 provider of prefab ADUs, primary residences and multifamily developments. Were leading the charge towards more affordable, high-quality housing with our industry-leading design tech and a turnkey process for planning, permitting, and installing prefab units. See whats possible at villahomes.com.
CSLB#1077688 | HCD# DL1564605
Co-Founder and Investor
May 2019
Helping the world’s greatest subscription companies recover millions of dollars in revenue lost to failed payments.
Butter leverages patent-pending ML models to analyze dozens of variables and deeply understand the real-time state for any given payment, which then allows us to optimize for authorization rate The result? 5% of top-line ARR growth.
Clients include Fabletics, The Athletic, Dialpad, Dr. Squatch, Athena Club, Savage X Fenty, Found, Wyze Labs, airSlate, Tonal, JustFab, Hairstory, Eucalyptus, UrbanSitter, Simple, Bloom, Perlego, MuseScore, KitUp, Speechify and more.
Co-Founder and Investor
Jun 2018
Found is an evidence-based weight care platform pioneering integrated support through personalized clinical guidance, expert coaching, online community, and if indicated, prescription medication. We are one of the largest telehealth weight loss clinics in the U.S. having served 250K+ members.
We believe that weight care is complex and goes beyond having the willpower to eat less and move more. We believe in the power of biology, genetics, sleep, stress, mental health and daily habits and we work with each factor to achieve long-lasting results.
Our goals are to address the long-term risks associated with ineffective weight management, to reimagine the narrow and outdated cultural narrative around weight, and to empower our community with tools that will help them find self-acceptance and add years to their lives.
Co-founder & Investor
Jun 2017
Raydiant is the leading in-location experience platform for the world’s largest restaurants, retail, hospitality, banking, and brands. With Raydiant, franchise managers, IT, marketing, and communications executives can scale their brick-and-mortar operations more effectively, reduce anxiety from outdated technology oversight, and seamlessly create more engaging and personalized in-store experiences that keep customers coming back buying more. Raydiant works with nearly 4,500 brands, from SMB to enterprise, including First Bank, Dickey’s BBQ, Harvard University, The Salvation Army, Red Bull, Chick-Fil-A, Thomson Reuters, and Wahlburgers. Founded in April 2017, Raydiant is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has raised a total of $50 million from 8VC, Atomic Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Mark Wahlberg Investments, Bloomberg Beta, Gaingels, Illuminate Ventures, Transmedia Capital, Ron Conway. To learn more, visit www.raydiant.com.
Co-Founder and Investor
Apr 2017
Replicant was founded on the belief that machines are ready to have useful, complex conversations that will transform the way we interact with the world, starting with customer service. As a leader in Contact Center Automation, Replicant helps companies automate their most common customer service calls while empowering agents to focus on more complex and nuanced customer challenges. Replicant’s AI platform allows consumers to engage in natural conversations across voice, messaging and other digital channels to resolve their customer support issues, without the wait, 24/7. Replicant is serving some of the largest contact centers in the Fortune 100 and growing rapidly. A bit more about Replicant:
• Named Forbes’ top 50 AI firms to watch in 2021
• Voted top 50 most promising startups by The Information
• Raised $78M in Series B financing led by Stripes
• Doubling the size of our team this year
• We are serving some of the largest contact centers in the Fortune 100 and are just getting started…. Interested? Check out our open roles at https://jobs.lever.co/replicant
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2023
Co-Founder and Investor
Oct 2023
Meet your home operating system.
Home security should reinforce your peace of mind. You deserve a sanctuary, one that gives you the freedom to live your life with the people that matter most. That’s why we created something entirely new.
Sauron is an autonomous platform for the perimeter of your home. It works discreetly in the background to reliably identify potential threats in all environmental conditions and it instantly recognizes who’s part of your inner circle.
We provide a bespoke white-glove service, ensuring that each client’s security platform is installed with precision and care, swiftly and without disrupting the comfort or aesthetics of their home.
To complement the technology, Sauron leverages its Intelligent Response and Intrusion Suppression (IRIS) Command Center, staffed 24/7 by exceptionally trained agents with diverse backgrounds in law enforcement, military service, executive protection, and other critical security fields. The team builds relationships with local police departments to ensure a rapid police response to verified security incidents.
2022
Co-Founder and Investor
May 2022
Exowatt is a next generation renewable energy company offering commercial and industrial customers a modular full-stack energy solution that can provide dispatchable power and heat for up to 24 hours per day, specifically designed to meet the needs of energy-intensive applications such as data centers. Our mission is clear, to make sustainable renewable energy always available and almost free.
2020
Co-Founder and Investor
Jun 2020
OpenStore is on a mission to inspire entrepreneurs and shoppers to find something new. We give entrepreneurs the simplest way to sell their e-commerce businesses and receive liquidity. We’ve paid millions of dollars to entrepreneurs all over the country, freeing them up to start new companies, spend time with family, or take a well-deserved break.
We manage the largest number of Shopify brands with over 100,000 products across apparel, beauty, home goods, and electronics. Our team of e-commerce experts and engineers uses our proprietary technology and tooling, and advantages from our size, to grow our brands and reach more customers.
Two million people have purchased OpenStore products, and soon, we’ll launch a consumer shopping app, helping people discover products in an all-new way.
2019
Co-Founder and Investor
May 2019
Villa is Californias #1 provider of prefab ADUs, primary residences and multifamily developments. Were leading the charge towards more affordable, high-quality housing with our industry-leading design tech and a turnkey process for planning, permitting, and installing prefab units. See whats possible at villahomes.com.
CSLB#1077688 | HCD# DL1564605
Co-Founder and Investor
May 2019
Helping the world’s greatest subscription companies recover millions of dollars in revenue lost to failed payments.
Butter leverages patent-pending ML models to analyze dozens of variables and deeply understand the real-time state for any given payment, which then allows us to optimize for authorization rate The result? 5% of top-line ARR growth.
Clients include Fabletics, The Athletic, Dialpad, Dr. Squatch, Athena Club, Savage X Fenty, Found, Wyze Labs, airSlate, Tonal, JustFab, Hairstory, Eucalyptus, UrbanSitter, Simple, Bloom, Perlego, MuseScore, KitUp, Speechify and more.
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