Angel Investing

Backing founders who see what others don't.

I'm a relatively new angel investor focused on the earliest stages — pre-seed and seed — where the product is still fragile and the market is still unconvinced.

Philosophy

What I'm actually looking for.

My goal is to back founders at the earliest stages while trying to identify if key foundational elements of their ideas have the ability to scale long term. As of now, those variables are relatively simple: how big is the market opportunity and do you have a differentiated way of gaining distribution within your market?

I don't have a perfect pattern. I have a set of questions:

Is this founder seeing something real that most people are trained not to see?
Is the core insight deeper than "this market is big"?
Does this person have the temperament to build through boredom, volatility, and public doubt?
Is there technical or domain depth that gives them real leverage, not just a clever pitch?
Can they explain a complex idea in clear, simple language?

I'm drawn to founders who are comfortable outside consensus. People who think in decades, not quarters — who can absorb large amounts of information, change their mind when needed, and still refuse to abandon the core of what matters.

This is less about charisma and more about coherence: the story, the product, the hiring, the culture, the go-to-market all rhyme with the same underlying belief.

Portfolio

Current investments.

So far, I've invested in six startups. The compounding I care about is less the markup and more what it says about the quality of the founders and the problems they chose.

Figure AI
Humanoid robots — building general-purpose machines for a world that needs more hands.
~20x from entry
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Apptronik
Humanoid robotics platform — Apollo, built for real-world deployment at scale.
~5x from entry
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Autopilot
Copy-trade investing app — letting everyday investors follow the strategies of people they trust.
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Fomo
Social crypto trading — bringing community and transparency to how people invest in digital assets.
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Stacked
Creator economy platform — tools that help creators build, monetize, and own their audience.
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StockApp & KipoAI
AI-native financial tools — bringing intelligent, accessible market insights to individual investors.
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Focus

What I care about in businesses.

The common thread is asymmetry: situations where the downside is understandable, but the upside is hard to cap. I invest at pre-seed and seed, occasionally Series A.

Founder-led technology
Companies with long runways where the founder's conviction is the most defensible asset on the cap table.
AI-native businesses
Software that meaningfully changes the physics of a problem — not just the interface. Real leverage, not a wrapper.
Platforms that give leverage
Better decisions, more reach, fewer wasted cycles. Products that make people measurably more capable.
Vertical software
Where incumbents are bloated, complacent, or algorithmically blind to what users actually need.
Quiet power accumulators
Data, trust, network effects, deep workflow integration. Products that become harder to displace over time.
Geographic flexibility
I lean US, but location becomes secondary when the founder and the problem are compelling enough.

Value-add

How I show up for founders.

Capital is the least interesting part of this. I write focused angel checks and usually invest alongside strong leads. I prefer to know a handful of companies deeply rather than a hundred superficially.

Narrative
Helping founders articulate a story that is true, simple, and durable — the kind that survives multiple fundraising cycles.
Strategy
Pressure-testing the second- and third-order consequences of key decisions: who you hire, which customers you choose, which markets you refuse.
Product
Acting as a sounding board on what to build now vs. later, and how to align it with the deeper thesis.
Capital Strategy
Thinking through dilution, timing, and what kind of investors you actually want in the room over the next decade.
Sanity Check
Being available when things feel noisy or sideways. I'm not trying to sit in the driver's seat — I'm trying to be the person you can call at strange hours.

Honest filter

What I'm not a match for.

There are investors who optimize for speed, volume, or trend exposure. I try to optimize for depth, alignment, and time. If it's a "maybe," it's usually a no.

✕The primary goal is a quick markup or a momentum trade.
✕There is no clear product or user — just a financial structure.
✕The priority is optics over substance: round size, cap table theater, headline-driven decisions.
✕You're looking for someone to rubber-stamp consensus rather than challenge it.

If this resonates —

Send a short note about what you're building, why now, and how you see this compounding over the next decade. A deck or one-pager helps, but the clarity of your thinking matters more than the format.

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