MEET UNMET NEEDS
FOUNDER TESTIMONIALS
"honest, hard-headed advice and generous amounts of help have been invaluable"
-- Larry Sanger, Wikipedia cofounder, consultant at Sanger.io
"excellent advisor and investor"
-- Andrew Lee, Co-founder, Handshake funded by Sequoia, a16z, Draper, Founders Fund
Case Studies
$10,000 to $100,000 per investment, with average being $25,000 or less.
Handshake (HNS) is decentralized certificate authority and naming co-founded by the Lightning co-creator. Initial backer & hodler. Helped originate a VC investor and angel investor. Same-round investors include Sequoia.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/vcs-are-investing-big-new-cryptocurrency-introducing-handshake
San Francisco
Team
We are blessed to have a great volunteer team of high-integrity, smart, analytical folks with some great domain expertise.
Dave Friedman
Outside Consultant
New York
- Source and analyze over 200 white papers, including the one for Quantstamp which holds QSPs for Terrence
- Advise a variety of cryptocurrency-related startups, including a GPU-as-a-Service platform, a tokenized real estate investment fund, and a Stellar-based remittance platform."
- Founded a mobile video game company
- Former investment banker and financial analyst
- https://medium.com/@friedmandave/what-makes-a-good-ico-bb86bc67b1fb
Nick Carabetta
Principal
Food & Beverage, Fitness
Orange County
Product Coordinator @ Houzz
Profit Recovery Partners
Pepperdine MBA
Manager, Corner Bakery, Crema Cafe
https://blog.chocchildrens.org/living-hemophilia-nicks-story/
Piyush Gupta
Principal
AI in FinTech, GeoTech, EdTech. Enterprise
Silicon Valley
- Principal PM in San Francisco Bay Area
- Focused on opportunities leveraging AI in FinTech / GeoTech / EduTech / Enterprise
- Founded Request.to - a Social messaging iOS app. Incubated at CMU startup accelerator
- Ex VP-Product at EKO, led company to 5M customers with $500M in volume
- Co-founded RouteGuru - world’s first “landmark intelligent driving directions” startup
- Management from Carnegie Mellon University
Terrence Yang
Managing Director
Fintech, Law tech, Privacy
San Francisco
x-MD at $1B+ AUM value investing asset manager
Ex-Wall Street officer, swaps, ABS, MBS and securities lawyer, deal manager, executions and business development MD who helped structure, build and launch several new financial products used today
USC Bachelor of Science, Harvard Law J.D.
x-COO at Infobitt, founded by Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger
Published in Forbes, Business Insider, Apple News, Newsweek, Inc., Women 2.0
Thomas Miller
Principal
Bitcoin, Fintech
East Bay
- Professional trader
- Assisted with due diligence and company profiling of potential investments
- ·Accompany on founder meetings to gauge individuals, ask questions and make recommendations
- Discuss and analyze startups and investment themes with Terrence.
Vishwas Hegde
Venture Partner
Software
East Bay
Analyze and recommend investments for Yang Ventures
Software Engineer
Serial Entrepreneur
Babson MBA
Focus
We focus on startups meeting an unmet need.
Our most recent investments have been in founder friends we have known for years or in privacy, law and finance related projects
Our check size is typically $25K but can be $10,000 or up to $100,000.
Email Us
In plain English without jargon, please tell us:
*what you're building
*how you are meeting an unmet need, preferably urgent
*founder-market fit
*intro deck, one-pager (optional)
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