FIRST CHECK INVESTOR
HELPING TECHNICAL FOUNDERS MOVE FASTER
-- 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
- Working like a dog to help you get to PMF
-- INVESTING PARTNER
- Solo General Partner: Robby
- 10 years of investing in technical founders at the earliest stages
-- MTF TECHNICAL COMMUNITY
TECHNICAL GTM
Early GTM, MongoDB
Max StevensEarly Sales, Upwind Security / PANW / Expanse
Dakota McKenzieEarly Sales, Databricks
First Technical Writer, Stripe
Sarah LubeckFirst Marketing Leader, Drata
Talia MoyalEarly Marketing, Gitpod / Lightstep
Pricing Expert, Cloudflare
Eva SassonDev Experience, Square / Sentry
Kevin KriebelSales & BD Leader, Drata / PANW / Expanse / ThousandEyes
SECURITY, ENGINEERING & DATA LEADERS
CISO, Drata
Jonathan JaffeCISO, Lemonade
Mandy AndressCISO, Elastic
Rick DotenSecurity Leader, Carolina Complete Health (Centene)
Angie LalHead of Security Engineering, Anthropic
CTO, Klaviyo
Utkarsh SengarVP Engineering, Webflow
Jay WallaceEngineering Leader, DoorDash
David CramerFounder, Sentry
Arash NikkarEngineering Leader, Meta / Lacework
Engineering Leader, Uplimit / Google / Coursera
Prachi GuptaEngineering Leader, Discord / LinkedIn
Michael CurtisEngineering Leader, Airbnb / Zendesk
Ben VinegarEngineering Leader, Sentry / Shape Security
-- INVESTMENTS
- +Stealth AI Observability Company
- +Stealth AI Security Company
- +Stealth Phishing Detection Company
- +Stealth Solutions Engineering Automation Platform
- +Detections.ai
- +Drata
- +Dremio
- +Elementary
- +Fossa
FIRST CHECK INVESTOR
HELPING TECHNICAL FOUNDERS MOVE FASTER