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Seed Investor & Board Observer
2024
Theia Insights is a deep tech company building AI-native dynamic ontology for global financial markets. We provide Dynamic Industry Classification, Thematic Factor Models, and Concept2Universe - the foundational technologies for the global investment industry.
We are a team of PhD scientists, engineers, mathematicians and industry practitioners, with decades of combined experience. Our products and solutions are built upon a foundation of academic and proprietary research and harness the latest developments in AI, machine learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLM), and technologies built on advanced financial mathematics.
We are guided by our commitment to building category defining technology to better serve the needs of a rapidly evolving world and ever-changing investment landscape. Named after the goddess of sight, Theia synthesises and distills vasts amounts of financial information so investors can see clearly.
Seed & Series A Investor, Board Observer
2024
Paxton is an innovative legal technology firm transforming the legal landscape. Our vision is to equip legal professionals with an AI assistant that supercharges efficiency, enhances quality, and enables extraordinary results.
Our AI platform compiles a comprehensive spectrum of legal and regulatory information, including all state and federal laws and regulations, court rulings, and provides the capability for users to upload and leverage additional proprietary documents. Paxton goes beyond mere search functions. It can answer intricate queries, draft a range of legal materials, and provide insightful feedback on various types of documents.
Seed Investor & Board Observer
2024
GovSignals created the intelligent GovCon platform designed to enhance, optimize, and accelerate pre-RFP intelligence, capture, proposal development, and AI knowledge management workflows.
We are shaping the future of government contracting with breakthrough AI-driven solutions. We’re actively disrupting a multi-billion dollar industry, enabling cutting-edge private sector technologies to rapidly secure government contracts, fortifying our national security and economic growth.
GovSignals has built the most advanced government contracting AI solution on the market. Whether youre from a small business or a Fortune 500, our platform increases the number of solicitations government contractors can pursue and empowers them to produce winning, fully compliant proposals in hours rather than months. We don’t just follow government trends; we lead them, as one of the largest government data aggregators in the industry, we’re able to understand what the government will do before the government knows.
Our leadership team brings decades of experience founding and scaling successful ventures, with roots at Amazon, Palantir, Stanford, and Harvard Business School, and within the highest echelons of government.
Seed Investor & Board Observer
2023
CO2 AI helps large and complex organizations measure their environmental impact, identify credible levers, and decarbonize at scale, leveraging the power of AI.
Seed Investor & Board Observer
2023
Portrait Analytics is an AI-powered research engine that accelerates and deepens key steps of the investment research process, making you 10x faster as you generate ideas squarely in your strike-zone, learn the story behind the stock chart, and dig deeper on key issues across decades and industries.
Built by buy-side investors, for buy-side investors.
Series A Investor & Board Observer
2022
Headquartered in London, Navro’s payments curation platform enables multinational corporations to move money globally on the best payment and banking infrastructure via a single API. Navro makes the complex simple, curating the optimal rails and routes for each payment while automatically fulfilling regulatory requirements.
With its expertise in managing large volumes of transactions in multiple jurisdictions alongside the associated compliance obligations, Navro’s payments curation platform is well-suited to pension and payroll solutions providers and Employer of Record platforms. Navro currently processes workforce payouts for more than 200 large corporations and executes international payments for 1,700 pension schemes.
Navro Statutory & Tax is the first service available globally to fulfil all mandatory tax deductions, statutory payments and regulatory reporting alongside payroll payouts in a single payment flow. The service can execute all statutory and tax requirements in 95 countries.
MBA Growth Investor Intern
Dec 2020
Sapphire Ventures partners with Enterprise AI founders and the early-stage funds investing in them to build Companies of Consequence. With 15+ years of experience and $10B+ in AUM across its direct and fund investing strategies, the firm invests with high conviction in a select number of post–product-market fit companies and early stage venture funds. Sapphire helps founders scale go-to-market, operations, and leadership—contributing to 30+ public listings and 50+ acquisitions. Investments include Glean, Cyera, Temporal, LangChain, Clay, Huntress, EliseAI, Grafana, WorkOS, and OneBrief. To learn more about Sapphire, visit: https://sapphireventures.com.
Series B Investor
2018
SmartRent is the leading provider of smart communities and smart operations solutions for the rental housing industry. SmartRents platform, comprised of smart hardware and cloud-based SaaS solutions, gives operators seamless visibility and control over real estate assets, empowering them to simplify operations, automate workflows, benefit from additional revenue opportunities and deliver exceptional site team and resident experiences. We serve 15 of the top 20 multifamily owners and operators, and our solutions enable millions of users to live smarter every day.
For more information, please visit www.smartrent.com.
Awards:
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List, 2023
Entrepreneur of the Year Pacific Southwest - CEO Lucas Haldeman, 2023
HousingWire Tech 100, 2021, 2022, 2023
#1 on Growjos 100 Fastest Growing Companies in Arizona, 2021
Best Places to Work in Multifamily®, 2021
Best Companies Multifamily Award, 2020
Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, 2020
AZ Central Top Companies to Work for in AZ, 2020
Investor
2018
Doma is making title and escrow a simpler, seamless process for lenders, agents and homebuyers across the country. We build transformative technology driven by our passion to improve the customer experience.
Series B Investor
2018
Mynd, a Roofstock company, is a trusted management partner for residential real estate. Powered by proprietary technology and local experts, Mynd helps investors large and small generate durable returns from their single-family rental portfolios.
Series B Investor
2018
PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and credit offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served nearly 20 million customers and lent nearly $4B across 9 countries while achieving solid profitability and growth.
Series A Investor
2017
Sure is the leading insurtech behind the world’s most recognized brands and carriers. Its enterprise SaaS infrastructure and embedded insurance programs drive the insurance industry forward to reach its full potential in an online era. Sure customers leverage its cohesive system of APIs to streamline the end-to-end insurance lifecycle resulting in better customer experiences supported by efficient digital operations.
Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Dallas, TX with offices around the globe.
Series A Investor
2017
Vacasa, a Casago company, is North America’s leading vacation rental management platform with a vision to drive unbeatable revenue for our homeowners and unforgettable experiences for our guests.
From laid-back beach cottages to grand ski chalets to luxury apartments, we match every guest with their perfect vacation rental.
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VacasaVacationHomes
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2026
AI Strategy and Business Development - Ventures
Jan 2026
At Synchrony, our driving force is to be essential to peoples everyday lives by making it easier for the many millions of people who rely on us to access their essential needs and everyday wants with consumer financing that works for them – from their first credit card to a lifetime of flexibility. We do this by helping people make informed, smart credit choices so they can live healthier financial lives and by connecting them to Synchronys ecosystem of hundreds of thousands of small- and mid-sized businesses and health and wellness providers that are the backbone of the U.S. economy.
2024
Seed Investor & Board Observer
2024
Theia Insights is a deep tech company building AI-native dynamic ontology for global financial markets. We provide Dynamic Industry Classification, Thematic Factor Models, and Concept2Universe - the foundational technologies for the global investment industry.
We are a team of PhD scientists, engineers, mathematicians and industry practitioners, with decades of combined experience. Our products and solutions are built upon a foundation of academic and proprietary research and harness the latest developments in AI, machine learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLM), and technologies built on advanced financial mathematics.
We are guided by our commitment to building category defining technology to better serve the needs of a rapidly evolving world and ever-changing investment landscape. Named after the goddess of sight, Theia synthesises and distills vasts amounts of financial information so investors can see clearly.
Seed & Series A Investor, Board Observer
2024
Paxton is an innovative legal technology firm transforming the legal landscape. Our vision is to equip legal professionals with an AI assistant that supercharges efficiency, enhances quality, and enables extraordinary results.
Our AI platform compiles a comprehensive spectrum of legal and regulatory information, including all state and federal laws and regulations, court rulings, and provides the capability for users to upload and leverage additional proprietary documents. Paxton goes beyond mere search functions. It can answer intricate queries, draft a range of legal materials, and provide insightful feedback on various types of documents.
Seed Investor & Board Observer
2024
GovSignals created the intelligent GovCon platform designed to enhance, optimize, and accelerate pre-RFP intelligence, capture, proposal development, and AI knowledge management workflows.
We are shaping the future of government contracting with breakthrough AI-driven solutions. We’re actively disrupting a multi-billion dollar industry, enabling cutting-edge private sector technologies to rapidly secure government contracts, fortifying our national security and economic growth.
GovSignals has built the most advanced government contracting AI solution on the market. Whether youre from a small business or a Fortune 500, our platform increases the number of solicitations government contractors can pursue and empowers them to produce winning, fully compliant proposals in hours rather than months. We don’t just follow government trends; we lead them, as one of the largest government data aggregators in the industry, we’re able to understand what the government will do before the government knows.
Our leadership team brings decades of experience founding and scaling successful ventures, with roots at Amazon, Palantir, Stanford, and Harvard Business School, and within the highest echelons of government.
2023
Seed Investor & Board Observer
2023
CO2 AI helps large and complex organizations measure their environmental impact, identify credible levers, and decarbonize at scale, leveraging the power of AI.
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