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
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
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
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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