Backing technical founders pre-pitch deck.

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Technical founders who are leaving great roles to build something greater.

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WHAT WE LOOK FOR

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Technical depth

Engineers and builders who've worked at the frontier.

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High learning rate

Learning faster than the environment changes.

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Commercial instincts

Building to win, not just to ship.

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Goes the distance

A track record of hard bets that took years to pay off.

→ We invest $500K on standard, post-money, YC SAFEs. We’re often the first check, but don’t need to be.

TEAM

Helen Min,
Founder & General Partner

Helen spent nearly two decades as an early marketing leader at startups that built the internet — Facebook, Dropbox, Quora, Plaid, and AngelList.

Her job was to help technical founders articulate what they were building before the world understood it.

That's still her job. Except now she's investing in them first.

The companies we backed before the world understood them.

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PORTFOLIO

Code-first workflow builder for teams

Backoffice platform for material manufacturers

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(Acquired by Twilio)

Providing merchants with lower fees and more customers

Agents for delivering 1:1 executive engagements at scale

(Acquired by Stripe)

(Acquired by Cursor)