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Angel Investor
Mar 2024
Niya AI builds human-centric AI solutions for fast-growing businesses.
We contract top AI experts from Niya Network to help companies design AI strategies, train teams, integrate AI into day-to-day workflows and build custom AI tools and agents.
Practical AI, delivered by real people who know how to build it.
Advisor & Angel Investor
Oct 2023
Creating the future of photography. With the fotostax Motion, any phone can capture and instantly print 3D/motion images.
Investor / Minority Owner
Sep 2023
More than just a club, more than just a game. Oakland Roots Sports Club seeks to harness the magic of Oakland and the power of sport as a force for social good.
Whether on the pitch, in the stands, or within the community, Oakland Roots will represent our one-of-a-kind city with passion, pride, and commitment to all things Oakland.
Player by player. Supporter by supporter. Resident by resident. One day at a time. One game at a time. This is about Oakland first, always.
Subscribe to stay updated on Oakland Roots Sports Club and our pathway to professional soccer in Oakland.
Seed Investor
Aug 2023
The NCL is revolutionizing cycling in the United States and building the professional sports league of the future – one that embraces technology, diverse ownership, gender equity, sustainability and community investment. The NCL will launch in 2023 with a series of criterium-style races that will exist both in the real world and the metaverse.
MISSION
The first majority-minority and female-owned professional sport. With equal pay and equal pay for women and men. About time.
INNOVATION
Watch in person, Stream the action, or Ride in the race on your smart trainer at home. Races in the real world and in the Metaverse, simultaneously. Lets go.
Private Investor
Aug 2023
Unify your online retail strategy with Carro’s Dropship Platform, built for retailers looking to expand their product catalog without the burden of inventory. Carro enables retailers to bring their own partners onto one platform to connect, collaborate, and grow profitably by unlocking new sales channels.
With Carro, Retailers can sell more products across their own storefronts without inventory risk, and Brands can distribute products through trusted retailer partners. In the end both sides can expand reach into new audiences, platforms, and regions.
Angel Investor
Aug 2023
EatOkra is the go-to app for discovering Black-owned restaurants. Where food, culture, and community link, EatOkra connects thousands of foodies to culinary creators and restaurants, reimagining the dining experience in local neighborhoods nationwide. EatOkra amplifies awareness and creates equal opportunities for Black business owners, future trailblazers, and voices in the food and beverage industry.
Private Investor
Jul 2023
Casper Labs delivers applications and services that drive revenue and radical efficiency for companies and governments. We are on a mission to build the essential foundation for an entirely new era of customer value and business success.
Investor
Jun 2023
Calling a business shouldnt be a frustrating experience. With AI, theres a better way. That’s why we started Slang.ai. Our mission is to transform the phone into a channel that is personalized, efficient, and delightful.
Get set up in 30 minutes or less and let Slang.ais virtual concierge help you deliver a personalized and delightful customer experience. Never miss a call again.
Angel Investor
Jun 2023
Wicked Saints uses behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. We combine the power of movements with the pleasure of Games.
After emerging from Niantics (makers of Pokémon GO) incubator, our world-class team created World Reborn--the worlds 1st adventure activism game. It’s a real fantasy game where your irl actions fuel your ability to make choices and win the game. At its simplest, WR is a story game with real-life quests facilitated by augmented reality.
Join our Discord or sign up on the website to play the beta now>>https://discord.gg/w6YRghmRyc
Private Investor
Jun 2023
IO Connect is a minority-owned, PE-backed software engineering and cloud solutions company. Our LATAM-based engineers function as an extension to startup, SMB, and enterprises engineering teams.
With IO Connect, our clients can access top-tier talent to augment their team, engage through flexible delivery PODs, or more structured project for technical or vertical specialties. IO Connect meets the client where they are innovating.
We are an AWS Advanced Partner and are backed by East Los Capital, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm that has invested in the top AWS partners in North America. We are also partners with Datadog, MuleSoft®, and Salesforce.
Angel Investor
Jun 2023
Lockerverse is an all-in-one fan engagement and monetization platform for sports organizations that combines CMS and CRM infrastructure to power fundraising, memberships, subscriptions, and year-round recurring revenue.
Investor
Sep 2022
The Cap Table Coalition is made up of high-growth startups, VC firms, and emerging fund managers who want to work to close the racial wealth gap. If you are an underrepresented investor or a founder looking to pledge, join us! https://captablecoalition.com/
Inspired by the Act One Diversity Rider and Finix’s fundraising efforts to diversify startup cap tables, were working to make it as easy as possible for everyone to join the movement.
Experience · 19 entries
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2024
Private Investor
Oct 2024
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary.
SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.
For more information, visit www.spacex.com.
Expert
Oct 2024
Primary is the worlds largest early stage VC firm, with a billion in assets under management and 50 full time employees.
Primary’s Impact team outnumbers investors 2:1, and is filled with seasoned executives working alongside founders to supercharge growth and secure quality hires, early customers, and downstream investors. This team embeds with companies for 2,500 hours of high-intensity fractional leadership work, conducts 3,000 candidate interviews, maintains a pool of 5,000+ active job seekers, and hosts 250 events large and small for the NYC tech community each year.
Cofounders Brad Svrluga and Ben Sun have won recognition from Forbes Midas List and Insiders Seed 100.
Angel Investor
Mar 2024
Niya AI builds human-centric AI solutions for fast-growing businesses.
We contract top AI experts from Niya Network to help companies design AI strategies, train teams, integrate AI into day-to-day workflows and build custom AI tools and agents.
Practical AI, delivered by real people who know how to build it.
2023
Advisor & Angel Investor
Oct 2023
Creating the future of photography. With the fotostax Motion, any phone can capture and instantly print 3D/motion images.
Investor / Minority Owner
Sep 2023
More than just a club, more than just a game. Oakland Roots Sports Club seeks to harness the magic of Oakland and the power of sport as a force for social good.
Whether on the pitch, in the stands, or within the community, Oakland Roots will represent our one-of-a-kind city with passion, pride, and commitment to all things Oakland.
Player by player. Supporter by supporter. Resident by resident. One day at a time. One game at a time. This is about Oakland first, always.
Subscribe to stay updated on Oakland Roots Sports Club and our pathway to professional soccer in Oakland.
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