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-- MODERN TECHNICAL FUND INVESTMENT STRATEGY

  • $500K - $1M investments, US & Israeli pre-seed and seed-stage startups
  • Backing founders building software for engineering, data, and security teams
  • First check investor, will lead / co-lead rounds
  • Invest in priced rounds or post-money YC SAFEs, no board seat
  • Invest pre-deck, pre-product, and pre-revenue
  • If MTF is not the most valuable investor on your cap table, we f*cked up

-- INVESTING PARTNER

  • Solo General Partner: Robby
  • 9 years of investing in technical founders at the earliest stages
“From the start, Robby was on Team Drata. She worked with us pre-launch and was incredibly active and helpful getting our first product to market. Robby’s network of angels and folks in the industry really helped us early on. I’d recommend her to any early stage founder looking for a game-changing partner.”
- Adam Markowitz, Co-Founder & CEO, Drata

-- MTF TECHNICAL COMMUNITY

TECHNICAL GTM

Meghan Gill

Early GTM, MongoDB

Max Stevens

Early Sales, Upwind Security / PANW / Expanse

Dakota McKenzie

Early Sales, Databricks

Larry Ullman

First Technical Writer, Stripe

Sarah Lubeck

First Marketing Leader, Drata

Talia Moyal

Early Marketing, Gitpod / Lightstep

Ben Chuba

Pricing Expert, Cloudflare

Eva Sasson

Dev Experience, Square / Sentry

Kevin Kriebel

Sales & BD Leader, Drata / PANW / Expanse / ThousandEyes

SECURITY, ENGINEERING & DATA LEADERS

Matt Hillary

CISO, Drata

Jonathan Jaffe

CISO, Lemonade

Patti Degnan

CISO, Notion

Rick Doten

CISO, Carolina Complete Health (Centene)

Mandy Andress

CISO, Elastic

Karl Mattson

CISO, Endor Labs

Tobias Boelter

Head of Security, Harvey

Angie Lal

Head of Security Engineering, Anthropic

Surabhi Gupta

CTO, Klaviyo

Utkarsh Sengar

VP Engineering, Webflow

Jay Wallace

Engineering Leader, DoorDash

David Cramer

Founder, Sentry

Arash Nikkar

Engineering Leader, Meta / Lacework

Sourabh Bajaj

Engineering Leader, Uplimit / Google / Coursera

Prachi Gupta

Engineering Leader, Discord / LinkedIn

Michael Curtis

Engineering Leader, Airbnb / Zendesk

Ben Vinegar

Engineering Leader, Sentry / Shape Security

-- CURRENT & PREVIOUS INVESTMENTS

  • +Stealth Identity and Access Management Company
  • +Stealth Phishing Detection Company
  • +Stealth Platform for Modern Backend Engineers
  • +Stealth Solutions Engineering Automation Platform
  • +Arcol
  • +Drata
  • +Dremio
  • +Elementary
  • +FinTe
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FIRST CHECK INVESTOR

HELPING TECHNICAL FOUNDERS MOVE FASTER