We invest in high slope operators who are reshaping the essential industries we rely on every day.

We invest in the future. A world where the industrial sectors that support our everyday life have never been more efficient, reliable, and sustainable. And where everyone has equal access to high quality and low cost healthcare.

Cecilia Ziniti

Founding Lawyer Amazon Alexa -> VP Legal Cruise -> GC Replit -> Cofounder of GC AI

Superpower: Sales & Marketing

Eliana Berger

Founding Product Manager Charlie Health -> Cofounder of Joyful Health

Superpower: Voice of Customer

Fil Aronshtein

Startups + Engineer at Northrup Grumman -> Cofounder of Dirac

Superpower: Engineering

We back First Builders.

From cold calls to customer support tickets, design reviews to weekly sprints, and managing changes to building teams, we’ve been there.

We know that the specialists and the generalists who come in and up-level everything around them are the backbone of any successful company.

As operators ourselves, we know how to spot this kind of talent. When they get the founder itch themselves, we want to be first in line to rally around them.

We are First Builders ourselves.

Our Partners were early to join companies like Cruise and Komodo Health and helped them scale to new levels.

We have been individual contributors and org leaders in New Product Introduction, Business Operations, and Customer Success.

We are here for the grit and the grind and want to support founders as they scale from the earliest stages.

  • Anabel Lippincott Paksoy, Advisor

    People Operations Expert. Best known for leading the People Team at Opendoor as it scaled from 300 to 1600 employees.

  • Rohini Pandhi, Advisor

    Product Expert. Known for tackling and leading new product areas at Block, from Square Invoices to Square Payments to Bitcoin Wallet.

  • Stephanie Engle, Advisor

    Design Expert. As first designer at Cruise, Steph did everything from creating hiring guides to designing the initial consumer app.

  • Sonia Baschez, Advisor

    Marketing Expert. As one of the first few hires at Atmos (YC S20), Sonia helped get the company on the map through earned media at Seed stage and has helped them scale to Series A and beyond.

  • Amber Illig, Founding General Partner

    Operations Expert. As one of the first non-engineering hires at Cruise, Amber stitched together roadmaps, instilled sprint structures, and formed the company’s first business unit for rideshare.

  • Rachel Tsui, Partner

    Healthcare and Customer Success Expert. Rachel has spent her entire career in life sciences and healthcare. Most recently she built and led a customer success team at Komodo Health after joining at Series B to help build out a new business unit serving Komodo’s first non life science customers.