About Us

We are a team of investors, researchers, and operators. We use our domain expertise, network, and prior experiences to help our founders solve previously unsolvable technical problems, communicate these breakthroughs to the world, and scale commercialization.


Our Team

Michael Dempsey

Managing Partner
@mhdempsey | website

David Hirsch

General Partner
@startupman | website

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0xsmac

Investor
@0xsmac | website

Head of Finance

Tara Eckert

Ron Boger

Venture Partner
@ronboger | website

Drew Gray

Venture Partner
website

Josh Nussbaum

Venture Partner
@josh_nussbaum | website

John Palmer

Venture Partner
@john_c_palmer | website

Dan Zigmond

Venture Partner
@danzigmond | website

“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

- Kurt Vonnegut