Experience

Beacons

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief of Staff

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area



Predictive VC

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

• Venture Partner

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  investing in companies building data moats invested in Givingli: https://www.givingli.com/



Adapt Ventures

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venture Fellow

  • Jul 2021 - Present



Lagree Fit 415

• United States

• Instructor

  • Jun 2023 - Present



Grishin Robotics

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venture Scout

  • Nov 2020 - Dec 2022

  cohort #2 invested in Kadama: https://www.kadama.com/



Global Founders Capital

• Germany
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scout

  • Oct 2018 - Mar 2022

  first ever scout Venture arm of Rocket Internet (ETR: RKET) $4Bn of capital, investments include Slack, HelloFresh, Delivery Hero, Zalando, Facebook, LinkedIn, Away, and Italic invested in Pahdo Labs: https://www.pahdolabs.com/



Harvard in Tech

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Content, Global Board

  • Jul 2019 - Jul 2021

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States wrote a newsletter (distribution to 10K+ people) featuring Harvard alums in tech interviewed: Chief Marketing Officer at BCG Founder of Cloudflare Chief Marketing Officer at Fidelity Chief Operating Officer at Ray Dalio's Family Office Head of Data at Boston Red Sox Global Head of Data, Security, and Identity Products at Visa Head of Sustainable Finance at JPMorgan Chief Product Officer at FreeWill Head of Business Operations and Product at Bubble VP of… Show more wrote a newsletter (distribution to 10K+ people) featuring Harvard alums in tech interviewed: Chief Marketing Officer at BCG Founder of Cloudflare Chief Marketing Officer at Fidelity Chief Operating Officer at Ray Dalio's Family Office Head of Data at Boston Red Sox Global Head of Data, Security, and Identity Products at Visa Head of Sustainable Finance at JPMorgan Chief Product Officer at FreeWill Head of Business Operations and Product at Bubble VP of Product at Figma SVP of Business Development at Brex Chief Marketing Officer at Lux Capital Chief of Staff at Dell Head of Impact at the Carlyle Group Chief Data Architect at Blackstone Head of Blockchain at the World Economic Forum SVP of Marketing at Pepsi Early Employee at Gusto Head of Climate at Stripe Chief Marketing Officer at Prudential Chief of Staff at Carta Chief Revenue Officer at Axon Head of the Multicultural Innovation Lab at Morgan Stanley Early Employee at Facebook Founder of Whoop (Series E) Global Head of Technical Operations at Novartis Show less



Elpha

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Content

  • Apr 2019 - Jul 2021

  Elpha (YC S19) is a platform for women to build their careers. We have 100K+ members. I lead featured posts, office hours, and social media. I have published 150+ featured posts. I have interviewed and held office hours with: Founder of Glossier Founder of Evite Founder of Scale AI Chief of Staff at Glossier/COO at Haus Marketing VP at Equinox, Kate Spade, Amazon Founder of The Wing Founder of Cowboy VC Employee #1 at Brex COO at Fast & prev Head of… Show more Elpha (YC S19) is a platform for women to build their careers. We have 100K+ members. I lead featured posts, office hours, and social media. I have published 150+ featured posts. I have interviewed and held office hours with: Founder of Glossier Founder of Evite Founder of Scale AI Chief of Staff at Glossier/COO at Haus Marketing VP at Equinox, Kate Spade, Amazon Founder of The Wing Founder of Cowboy VC Employee #1 at Brex COO at Fast & prev Head of Product Operations at Uber Lead Designer at Superhuman CEO at TaskRabbit COO at the the Techstars Barclays Accelerator Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School researchers Show less



TSVC Capital

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Marketing Strategist

  • Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

  early investors in Zoom, Carta, and Gingko Bioworks



Bottomless

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Content

  • Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

  YC W19 launched the blog with 12 content pieces



Pear VC

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venture Fellow

  • Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

  first industry fellow



TechCrunch

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Deep Tech Contributor

  • Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

  covered deep tech



Pinduoduo

• China
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Writer

  • Nov 2020 - Jun 2021

  covered agtech, social commerce, China x US and helped launch the global thought partner community



ZAGENO Inc.

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Growth Marketing

  • Sep 2020 - Jun 2021

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States



Gold House

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venture Scout

  • Jul 2020 - Jun 2021

  sourced companies for the founder network and accelerator including Alloy and Mighty Health



Techstars

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Head Boston Startup Digest Curator, Mentor

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2021

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States wrote a newsletter with 15K+ subscribers



Medium

• United States
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 700 & Above Employee

• Top Venture Capital and Startup Writer

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2021

  Selected by Medium as top venture capital writer: https://medium.com/tag/venture-capital/top-writers and top startup writer: https://medium.com/tag/startup I have published 100+ articles on Medium



The Concord Review Academic Coaching Service

• Founder, Manager

  • May 2014 - Jun 2021

  Grew the business globally to include 18 employees, 30K in revenue, dozens of clients



On Deck

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Founding Fellow

  • Feb 2021 - May 2021

  fellow @ ODCB1, founding fellow @ On Deck Catalyst winning final project team: Community Hacked



Mozilla Builders

• United States
• Strategic Management Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Manager

  • Oct 2020 - May 2021

  founded social media program marketed the fix the internet event to reach 1K attendees



Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Entrepreneur In Residence

  • Sep 2019 - May 2021

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States hosted office hours for 100+ founders & investors



Emerging Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA)

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Head of Content

  • May 2020 - Sep 2020



Soma Capital

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor

  • Aug 2019 - Sep 2020

  Soma Capital invests across consumer, enterprise, fintech, hardware, and healthcare. We have invested seed in the likes of Cruise, Rappi, Astranis, Embarktrucks, Razorpay, Lambda School, Flutterwave, and Ironclad. Soma Capital's portfolio has a combined valuation of over $35 billion. I worked on investments (primarily in enterprise software) in companies including Ramp, Workstream, Forager, API Tracker, Rosebud AI, Datasaur, Ditto Words, Slingshow, Yearend, Daily Gem, Flowdash… Show more Soma Capital invests across consumer, enterprise, fintech, hardware, and healthcare. We have invested seed in the likes of Cruise, Rappi, Astranis, Embarktrucks, Razorpay, Lambda School, Flutterwave, and Ironclad. Soma Capital's portfolio has a combined valuation of over $35 billion. I worked on investments (primarily in enterprise software) in companies including Ramp, Workstream, Forager, API Tracker, Rosebud AI, Datasaur, Ditto Words, Slingshow, Yearend, Daily Gem, Flowdash, Flatfile, Curative, Embrace, Secureframe, Sora, Zaam, Battlecard, ElectroNeek, and Paragon. Special projects: 1) created technical talent database of 300+ candidates to help portfolio companies hire, 2) created centralized mentorship/services/knowledge database in Webflow for companies, 3) created ~200 global female founders network, 4) ran 3 events with 500+ people in attendance, 5) completed case studies and aggregate analysis on 230+ companies, and 6) launched a fellowship for aspiring founders with 400+ applicants https://www.somacap.com/ Show less



Romulus Capital

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venture Team Lead

  • Sep 2018 - Jun 2019

  10 year, $200M fund, $250K - $8M/investment, research driven B2B technology innovation https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/05/01/this-seed-stage-vc-founder-sold-his-entire-first-fund-at-a-4x-profit-will-others-follow/



Female Founders Fund

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Lead of the National Venture Fellows Program

  • Oct 2018 - May 2019

  Portfolio includes Maven (raised $27 million Series B), WayUp, Rent the Runway, Eloquii (acquired by Walmart), Zola, and Thrive Global



Rough Draft Ventures

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner

  • Sep 2018 - May 2019

  General Catalyst's seed and pre-seed university fund RDV's portfolio includes 175 companies, 300+ founders, 550+ jobs created, and $230mm+ in follow on seed capital raised. Our portfolio companies have been backed by Y Combinator, Thiel Fellowship, TechStars, MassChallenge, BoxGroup, LHV, SVAngel, and more. I led investments in: Cloud Agronomics TracFlo SEASON 3 Verstaan Trio Aloha



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Honors Thesis Researcher

  • Aug 2018 - May 2019

  Advised by Professor Oliver Hart, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Received Harvard's Morris Kronfeld Prize for my research

• Economics Question Center Tutor, Economics Peer Tutoring Fellow, Bureau of Study Counsel Tutor

  • Sep 2017 - May 2019

  Greater Boston Area Harvard tutor in economics, statistics, computer science, sociology, and psychology courses

• Head of Education Technology Community, HILT - Harvard University Office of the President, Provost

  • Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

  Harvard Initiative for Teaching and Learning, Office of the President and Provost of Harvard University



Harvard Student Agencies

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Board Manager & Web Fulfillment/Boston Apparel Company Manager

  • Oct 2015 - May 2019

  Cambridge, MA World's largest student run company, managed multi-million dollar businesses since age 18



Realworld

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• National Campus Ambassador Program Founder, Strategy Consultant

  • Jun 2016 - Oct 2018

  Greater New York City Area https://www.realworldplaybook.com/ is building the next gen personal finance tool for new graduates RWP's advisors include Jean Case (Chairman of National Geographic) and clients include Jet Blue and Macy's as well as dozens of universities nationwide.



Morgan Stanley

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investment Banking

  • May 2018 - Aug 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Global Technology Investment Banking Group, Global Capital Markets Selected transaction experience (all bookrunner role, lead/co-lead): Domo $222 million IPO, Bloom Energy $311 million IPO, Sonos $280 million IPO Received return offer to join the firm full time



Charles Schwab

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Securities Lending Technology Consultant

  • Dec 2017 - Mar 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Built a comprehensive deck (visuals, graphs, models, and written analysis) for Charles Schwab executives with problem summary and solution proposal that would lead to a projected over 80% decrease in system downtime and 20MM increase in revenues



Northwestern Mutual

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investment Strategy and Portfolio Management

  • Apr 2017 - Aug 2017

  Greater Milwaukee Area I worked on the portfolio management team's $220Bn portfolio strategy



The Charles River Growth Fund

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Partner

  • Mar 2016 - May 2017

  Cambridge, MA Harvard's oldest investment fund



Morning Brew

• United States
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Strategy Lead

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2016



Roundview Capital, LLC

• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Asset Management

  • Apr 2016 - Aug 2016

  Princeton, NJ Roundview Capital is an independent investment management and advisory firm for high net worth families and institutions with $1bn AUM



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Fiscal Policy Researcher

  • Sep 2015 - Apr 2016

  Founding member of the Fiscal Challenge team at Harvard - completed original research, policy design, and data analysis to reduce the debt to GDP ratio by 75% in the next 25 years Advised by Lawrence Summers, prior Chief Economist of the World Bank and US Secretary of Treasury

• Astrophysics Research Assistant

  • Sep 2015 - Jan 2016

  The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics



Harvard Innovation Labs

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Development

  • Dec 2015 - Mar 2016

  Retask (retask.io) is an award-winning enterprise software startup incubated at the Harvard Innovation Lab and acquired by Staketrak.

• Strategy and Development Associate

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

  Zomida is an early stage startup hosted by the Harvard Innovation Lab’s Venture Incubator Program.



Luxe

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations and Marketing

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

  Luxe is a San Francisco based tech startup that has raised $25 million in venture funding from Google Ventures and others. Luxe was acquired by Volvo in 2017.



MATHCOUNTS Foundation

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Coach

  • Dec 2012 - Jan 2015



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• MIT PRIMES-USA, Mathematics Researcher

  • Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

  MIT PRIMES-USA is an intensive year round mentorship program that allows select high school students to be matched with a mentor to collaborate on a mathematics research project of mutual interest. As a participant in MIT PRIMES-USA, I • Was one of 13 students in the nation selected to participate in the MIT PRIMES-USA program, a year-round math research mentorship program • Worked on a project on the modeling of snowflake growth using hexagonal automata in partnership with… Show more MIT PRIMES-USA is an intensive year round mentorship program that allows select high school students to be matched with a mentor to collaborate on a mathematics research project of mutual interest. As a participant in MIT PRIMES-USA, I • Was one of 13 students in the nation selected to participate in the MIT PRIMES-USA program, a year-round math research mentorship program • Worked on a project on the modeling of snowflake growth using hexagonal automata in partnership with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Illinois Geometry Research Lab • Received multiple national honors and awards for my project (see Honors and Awards section) • My published paper was cited by the Head of the Caltech physics department, Kenneth Libbrecht Show less



Stevens Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Environmental Engineering and Technology Researcher

  • Jan 2013 - Jun 2013