Ventures
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.
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.
Pioneering conversational AI that gives digital characters memory, personality, and emotional range — turning scripted interactions into genuine conversations across games, entertainment, and beyond.
Anime was a massive global culture hiding behind distribution walls. Crunchyroll tore them down and built the definitive streaming platform for an underserved audience.
Giving independent creators the same audience intelligence that studios and networks take for granted — leveling the playing field on YouTube.
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.
Using AI to make online gaming safer and more inclusive — tackling toxicity at scale so the next generation of players can compete without fear.
Freight is a trillion-dollar market run on phone calls and fax machines. Convoy brought the network effects of a digital marketplace to trucking.
The financial back office that self-employed people deserve — taxes, bookkeeping, and entity formation in one platform for the growing freelance economy.
A passionate global community connecting conscious eaters to plant-based food wherever they travel — built with love long before it was trendy.
The most ambitious bet in food: making meat from plants so good that carnivores would switch without thinking twice.
Removing friction from global commerce — buy now, pay later felt inevitable once you saw how payments were holding back the mobile economy.
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.