THE INVESTOR'S SEAT
THE RIGHT QUESTION.
Early-stage capital for founders in health, culture and AI.
Pre-seed and seed. Never first money in. Never the lead. Always alongside an established lead.
Four checks a year are mine. The Angel Club syndicate writes around twelve more alongside. My one filter: my contribution must far exceed the check.
The cleanest way in is through Angel Club. Founders apply there. Investors co-invest there.
THE PRINCIPLE IN ONE LINE
“Capital doesn’t flow to founders who have the answer. It flows to founders who have named the right question.”
ANGEL GAMBINO
Presence. Trust. Taste.
What endures when everything else is replaceable in the AI era.
WHERE TO START
TWO LANES. ONE DOOR EACH.
Pre-seed and seed founders raising capital. Angel Club is the front door.
Allocators seeking vetted, curated dealflow alongside 400+ co-investors.
Raising a fund or SPV, or supporting a portfolio? See the Advisor page. Operating leadership for a portfolio company? See the Executive page.
WHAT I BACK
FOUR WAYS IN.
Three intersections, plus one open door. Not a sector thesis. A taste thesis: the places I have operated long enough to see what the market has not priced yet.
Health × living systems
Companies rebuilding how people heal, flourish and regenerate: brain, mental and behavioral health, women’s health, longevity, psychedelic medicine, neurodiversity, animal health and the blue economy.
Senior Advisor, PsyMed Ventures. Board Trustee, CIIS. Former CPO, Ellipsis Health.
Culture × community
Companies building the communities where relationships compound: sports, media, music, entertainment, gaming and social, plus the third spaces and economic mobility plays, Detroit included, that the coasts still price as fringe.
Former executive at the BBC, MTV/Viacom/Paramount, Napster, Bebo and Sonico. Founding team at Gameplay, taken public. Partner at the venture studios behind BarkBox and Ro.
AI × incentives
AI built with incentives that remove bias and give people their time back, for people, planet, profit and purpose.
Investor and advisor to multiple AI companies. Former Principal, AWS Startups, CEO of Sensai, and CPO of Ellipsis Health.
Surprise me
People first; categories follow. If you sit outside these three, apply through Angel Club anyway. The conviction is mine to find.
Founder of Angel Club: a community of 12,500+, including 400+ investors.
WHAT A CHECK LOOKS LIKE.
Pre-seed · Seed
Never first money in. Never the lead. Always alongside an established lead.
$25K to $150K
Sized to be meaningful to you,
proportionate to the round.
4 from me · ~12 syndicate
Intentionally small from me. The Angel Club syndicate typically writes around twelve a year alongside.
Observer or board
Only when it serves the company. Rarely requested, often declined.
HOW IT WORKS
FROM WARM INTRO TO WIRE.
No cold decks. No blind pitches. A real process, run fast, with a clear answer at the end.
01
Angel Club syndicate
Founders apply through the syndicate. The Club does the first pass, and the companies that match my thesis surface to me.
02
One call
Thirty to forty-five minutes on the question you are answering that others cannot see yet.
03
A clear answer
Yes, no, or “here’s when I can look at it.” If it is a no, I will name what I am not seeing, so you can use it.