We invest in rogue entrepreneurs

To create anything that will grow, persevere, accomplish and last, you have to be rogue.

Companies

Albedo
Apex
Benchling
Bigeye
Coinbase
CoLab Software
Duplo
dYdX
Embrace
Explo
Gigs
Italic
LanceDB
Luminai
Lunar
MindsDB
Nelo
Nuvocargo
Ollama
Opal
Pierre
Release
Remedial Health
Replicated
Republic
Rho
Scratchpad
Slope
Stoke
Supabase
Tydo
Unify
Albedo
Apex
BenchlingCloud-based informatics platform for life sciences R&D
Bigeye
CoinbaseSecure platform that makes it easy to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrency
(NASDAQ: COIN)
CoLab Software
Duplo
dYdXThe most powerful open trading platform for crypto assets
EmbraceComprehensive mobile platform that makes finding and fixing errors on mobile easy
Explo
Gigs
Italic
LanceDB
Luminai
Lunar
MindsDB
Nelo
Nuvocargo
Ollama
Opal
Pierre
Release
Remedial Health
ReplicatedPlatform to operationalize and scale the distribution of Kubernetes apps to enterprise environments
RepublicRepublic is powering global private investing with a full-stack investment platform
Rho
Scratchpad
Slope
Stoke
Supabase
Tydo
Unify

People

Christopher GoldaFounder + Managing Partner

I'm a former engineer, founder, and operator turned early–stage investor based in San Francisco. My last venture, BackType, was a SaaS analytics company that helped quantify the marketing value of social media, backed by Y Combinator, True Ventures, Lowercase Capital, and more. In 2011, BackType was acquired by Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), where I helped launch Promoted Tweets and ran the Ad Center as Twitter grew from 300 to 3,000+ employees and went public. I've also served as an Advisor to Entrepreneur First, Menlo Ventures and Y Combinator's Startup School.

At my last startup, we were obsessed with building a top 0.01% talent team and engineering–centric culture. What other companies did with entire teams, BackType did with single engineers. The distributed data processing work we did to build the BackType product became the basis for the Lambda Architecture. We also open sourced, Apache Storm, a distributed realtime computation system developed at BackType.

Today, I focus on investing in top 0.01% entrepreneurs attacking large problems with 10X+ products.

Picture of the authorIMG: PNG, Sep ’18. Cinzia Bruschini.

Contact Us

The best way to get in touch with me is to try to get an introduction from someone I know. Check our shared connections on LinkedIn or people I follow on Twitter. When I talk to companies that are actively fundraising, I typically make investment decisions in 24–48 hours.