FIRST CHECK INVESTOR
HELPING TECHNICAL FOUNDERS MOVE FASTER
-- MODERN TECHNICAL FUND INVESTMENT STRATEGY
- $500K - $1M investments
- Backing founders building software for engineering, data, and security teams
- First check investor, will lead / co-lead rounds
- Invest on post-money YC SAFE, 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
-- MTF TECHNICAL CREW
TECHNICAL GTM
Early GTM, MongoDB
Max StevensEarly Sales, Upwind Security / Expanse
Dakota McKenzieEarly Sales, Databricks
First Technical Writer, Stripe
Sarah LubeckFirst Marketing Leader, Drata
Talia MoyalEarly Marketing, Gitpod / Lightstep
SECURITY, ENGINEERING & DATA LEADERS
CISO, Drata
Jonathan JaffeCISO, Lemonade
Patti DegnanCISO, Notion
Rick DotenCISO, Carolina Complete Health (Centene)
Karl MattsonCISO, Endor Labs
CISO, Elastic
Angie LalSecurity & Engineering Leader, Anthropic
Surabhi GuptaCTO, Klaviyo
Utkarsh SengarSenior Director of Engineering, Webflow
Jay WallaceCloud Infrastructure & Platform, DoorDash
Founder, Sentry
Arash NikkarEngineering Leader, Facebook / Lacework
Prachi GuptaEngineering Leader, Discord / LinkedIn
Michael CurtisEngineering Leader, Airbnb / Zendesk
Ben VinegarEngineering 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
- +Fossa
- +LaunchNotes
- +mobile.dev
- +Uplimit
- +6 River Systems - acquired by Shopify (~$450M)
- +Effx - acquired by Figma
- +Phiar - acquired by Google
FIRST CHECK INVESTOR
HELPING TECHNICAL FOUNDERS MOVE FASTER