About

I'm a venture capitalist and partner at FirstMark, based in New York. I invest in early stage startups, mostly at the seed and Series A stage.

I'm particularly active in enterprise software, with a career-long interest in data, machine learning and AI, from infrastructure to applications. I have also invested in other areas like crypto and fintech.

While the majority of my portfolio and core focus is in the United States, I actively invest in ambitious European startups that aim to be global category leaders from inception, and do my best to help them expand to the US. I have invested in France (where I was born and raised prior to moving to the US), the UK, Germany and Switzerland to date.

Some companies I work with, in one capacity or another (board member, board observer, investor):

Ada Support; Astronomer; ClickHouse; Cockroach Labs; Crossbeam; Dataiku; DCG; Espresso AI; Estuary; Helium (Nova Labs); Hyperscience; Lago; Ledger; Nextmv; Pigment; Softr; Sparta; SurrealDB; Synthesia; TensorZero; Upgrade

Some companies I worked with previously:

ActionIQ (acquired by Uniphore), Frame AI (acquired by Hubspot), Quickwit (acquired by Datadog), Recombine (acquired by Cooper), Sense360 (acquired by Medallia), Sketchfab (acquired by Epic Games), Sproutling (acquired by Mattel), TextIQ (acquired by Relativity), Timber (acquired by Datadog).

As an angel (personal, prior to joining FirstMark), I was involved with companies like Datadog and LendingClub.

As part of my overall investing activity, I am very active in content creation and community building, with the following staples: