The best founders I know are building something they can't not build. I invest because I remember what it felt like to have more belief than proof — and because the most interesting conversations I've ever had were with people in the middle of figuring it out.

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  OpenCode

  First check. The most popular open-source coding agent in the world — proving that AI-assisted development belongs to the community, not a single vendor.

  Dev Tools Active
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  Inworld AI

  Pioneering conversational AI that gives digital characters memory, personality, and emotional range — turning scripted interactions into genuine conversations across games, entertainment, and beyond.

  AI Active
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  Crunchyroll

  Anime was a massive global culture hiding behind distribution walls. Crunchyroll tore them down and built the definitive streaming platform for an underserved audience.

  Media Exited
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  vidIQ

  Giving independent creators the same audience intelligence that studios and networks take for granted — leveling the playing field on YouTube.

  Creator Active
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  OpenDNS

  Making the internet safer and faster by rethinking DNS from the ground up — a security layer that protects millions of users without them even knowing it.

  Security Exited
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  GGWP

  Using AI to make online gaming safer and more inclusive — tackling toxicity at scale so the next generation of players can compete without fear.

  Gaming Active
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  Convoy

  Freight is a trillion-dollar market run on phone calls and fax machines. Convoy brought the network effects of a digital marketplace to trucking.

  Logistics Active
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  Collective

  The financial back office that self-employed people deserve — taxes, bookkeeping, and entity formation in one platform for the growing freelance economy.

  Fintech Active
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  HappyCow

  A passionate global community connecting conscious eaters to plant-based food wherever they travel — built with love long before it was trendy.

  Consumer Exited
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  Impossible Foods

  The most ambitious bet in food: making meat from plants so good that carnivores would switch without thinking twice.

  Food Tech Active
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  Klarna

  Removing friction from global commerce — buy now, pay later felt inevitable once you saw how payments were holding back the mobile economy.

  Fintech Exited

i/o Ventures

I'm also a co-founder and partner at i/o Ventures — a fund built on the idea that the best thing you can offer a founder isn't just capital, but the kind of hard-won pattern recognition that only comes from building things yourself.