Occasionally, I like investing in and helping founders. As a founder myself, I learned how hard (and lonely) a job it is to build a company. Only fellow founders and a handful of investors were actually super helpful, and they meant the world to me and my company.
When I was a Partner at a16z, I invested and worked with:
- Cursor (series A lead, acquired by SpaceX) - Michael T., Aman S., Sualeh A., Arvid L.
- Thinking Machines (seed lead) - Mira Murati, John Schulman, Luke Metz, et al.
- Black Forest Labs (seed lead) - Robin Rombach, Andreas B., Patrick E.
- Waveforms AI (seed lead, acquired by Meta) - Alexis Conneau, Coralie Lemaitre.
- Preference Model (seed lead) - Jennifer Zhou, Ning Cao.
Other investments:
- Mechanize (seed lead) - Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil, Matthew Barnett.
- Discovery Loop (pre-seed) - Jeff Dean, Quoc Le, Sanjay G., Oriol V.
- Third Moment Research (pre-seed) - Adam Khakhar, Jeffrey Yan.
- Veeda AI (seed) - Sanja Fidler, Zan G., Huan L.
- Runpod (first check) - Zhen Lu, Pardeep Singh.
- Conway Research/Underdog (seed) - Sigil Wen
- SF Compute (pre-seed) - Evan Conrad, Alex Gajewski.
- Embra AI (seed, acquired by Notion) - Zach Tratar.
- Stack AI (seed, acquired by Asana) - Toni Rosinol, Bernard Aceituno.
- AirGarage (seed) - Scott Fitsimones, Jonathon Barkl, Chelsea Border.
- General Proximity Bio (seed) - Armand B. Cognetta.
- Others in stealth.
If you want to chat, feel free to reach me at:
m [at] mascobot.com