I didn't start out anywhere near Sand Hill Road.

I began my career as an analyst on the Manhattan trading floor of Goldman Sachs — about as far from a startup as you can get — and what I saw there about how money, power, and opportunity actually move has shaped how I've invested ever since.

The question that's driven everything since is a simple one: how is work changing, and who gets to benefit? I went looking for the answer from the inside. I worked at General Assembly, helping reinvent how people build careers and skills (the company sold to Adecco for $413M in 2018). I co-founded the global seed fund Fresco Capital, invested at Trinity Ventures, and along the way became a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Columbia Business School — because the surest way to understand something is to have to teach it.

Today I'm a General Partner at SemperVirens, an ecosystem-driven venture capital firm investing in the future of work, health, and financial wellness. My thesis is specific: the future of work is AI-native services — companies built around AI from the ground up, not bolting it onto old models. Over my career I've backed nine companies to unicorn status, including Pipedrive, Spire Global, Spring Health, Midi Health, and Multiverse, alongside emerging winners like Stepful, TechWolf, and Take2 AI.

I work with founders the way I'd want to be worked with: with conviction, and with my sleeves rolled up. That means real help with go-to-market, customer introductions, hiring, narrative and fundraising, and the next round — and it means treating the people I back as people, not portfolio line items, across a relationship that often lasts a decade.

I'm also a writer. I wrote Breaking into Venture to demystify an industry that stays closed to most people — a guide for anyone who's ever felt like an outsider looking in. My next book, Beyond the Pitch: The Psychology of Raising Venture Capital (February 3, 2027), goes inside the fundraise itself — the psychology that actually drives investor decisions, and how founders can raise on their own terms. I write regularly about the future of work, lecture and speak on venture capital and AI, and have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, TechCrunch, the Financial Times, and elsewhere.

Underneath all of it is one belief: technology should work for people, not the other way around. That's what I invest in, and that's what I write about.