I'm a founder, engineering executive, and angel investor.
I found and scale technology companies. I've been a CTO for two venture backed startups, including PlanGrid, where we raised over $100 million in venture capital from Y Combinator and Sequoia, and were acquired by Autodesk in 2018. I have architected systems and managed software teams across a variety of industries, including construction, consumer media, and trading.
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Angel Investing
I occasionally invest in technology startups, and I'm fortunate to be a small investor in some great companies listed below.
| Company | Description | Investing alongside... |
|---|---|---|
Alpas | Helping procurement departments find suppliers. | YCHarvard Endowment |
Dwellito | Loans for residential prefab dwellings. | Slow |
Handoff | Instant construction estimates and business operations for contractors with AI | YCInitialized CapitalGreycroft |
Hightouch | Composable Customer Data Platform helps you collect and activate customer data | YCAmplify PartnersRahul VohraBrianne Kimmel |
Kanda | Affirm for construction. | YCLiquid 2 |
Merlin | AI-powered ERP for construction companies | YC |
Monograph | Project management for architects and engineers. | HomebrewParade VCIndex VenturesTiger Global |
O.school | Female and non-binary centered sexual health education. | Cyan BanisterBackstage CapitalBase.Ventures |
Postscript | Messaging for Shopify stores. | YCGreylockKevin Hale |
Slope | Buy Now / Pay Later for B2B. | YCUnion Square Ventures |
Toolbox | Debit cards for construction. | YCLiquid 21984 Ventures |
Upcodes | Manage the complexity of building codes. | YCPoint Nine Capital |
Walnut | Sales product demos made easy. | Liquid 2NFXSV Angel |
Selected Angel Investment News
- Slope $65 Million Strategic Equity and Debt Funding (July 2024)
- Upcodes launches Copilot for building codes (May 2023)
- Postscript raises $65M Series C (June 2022)
- Slope raises $24M Series A from Union Square Ventures (April 2022)
- Walnut snaps up fresh capital after growing 700% in four months (January 2022)
- HighTouch announces $40M Series B (November 2021)
- Monograph raises $20M Series B (November 2021)
- 1build raises $19.5M Series A (September 2021)
- Walnut raises $15M Series A (August 2021)
- PostScript announces $35M Series B led by Greylock (March 2021)
Work History
I cofounded PlanGrid, where we introduced mobile technology and machine learning to the $1 trillion construction industry.
While leading product development for 4.5 years, I grew the engineering team to 75, helped raise $85m+ in venture capital (Sequoia, Y Combinator, Sam Altman, others), and created a product more loved than Dropbox and Gmail. Today, PlanGrid is a leading software platform for construction and helps teams build the largest structures on earth.
PlanGrid was acquired by Autodesk in 2018.
I helped launch O.school, a health and wellness website centering women, non-binary, and LGBTQ community.
In my role, I architected and built a streaming video application for health educators across the country to lead interactive classes. The mobile friendly application included chat capabilities with real-time moderation and archival playback.
I spent the first phase of my career obsessively learning my craft, and I was fortunate to build important systems in the telecommunications and trading industries.
I built the platform that executed the first carbon auction in the United States, engineered high frequency trading systems for hedge funds, improved performance at the world's largest option exchange, and coded low level boot algorithms for phone traffic switches.
I graduated from Purdue University with a degree in computer engineering.