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Founder33Current founder
44th percentile
Investor85Current investor
92nd percentile
Combined
Serial founder and 20-year VC now running Tunitas Ventures seed fund
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Firm Standing · 98th percentile
- Was Managing Director at VantagePoint Venture Partners and Managing Director at Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, both recognized multi-stage venture firms.
- Founding Partner and active GP of Tunitas Ventures, a seed-stage venture fund he launched in 2022.
- Publicly identified as an active angel and seed investor across multiple companies over two decades.
- Has been an active venture investor since at least 2001 (VantagePoint Venture Partners), representing over 20 years of investing experience.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past founder of Angara (CEO, 1996–2001) and AdKnowledge (VP Product, 1995), both venture-backed startups.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current Founding Partner of Tunitas Ventures, a seed-stage venture firm he founded in 2022.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)AdKnowledge was acquired for $193M.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Both Angara and AdKnowledge were co-founded with other team members, per the venture-backed startup history.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Was Managing Director at VantagePoint Venture Partners and Managing Director at Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, both recognized multi-stage venture firms.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Founding Partner and active GP of Tunitas Ventures, a seed-stage venture fund he launched in 2022.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an active angel and seed investor across multiple companies over two decades.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Has been an active venture investor since at least 2001 (VantagePoint Venture Partners), representing over 20 years of investing experience.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Has made at least 10 named seed and venture investments including Zūm, PayJoy, Numerai, Namecoach, NachoNacho, Fastly, Anomali, OZ Communications, Spatial Wireless, and YouMail.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio company OZ Communications was acquired by Nokia.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio company Spatial Wireless was acquired by Alcatel-Lucent.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio company YouMail was acquired (acquisition price undisclosed).
What you likely need
Eric is a seasoned seed-stage investor and serial founder with deep roots in Silicon Valley venture, a Stanford EE PhD, and a track record spanning two decades of investing and two venture-backed exits. He would benefit most from high-signal gatherings that connect him with other active seed GPs, help him source the best Series A leads for his Tunitas portfolio companies, and keep him plugged into the next generation of technical founders in fintech and SaaS.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA seed-GP roundtable with other Menlo Park / SF Bay Area fund managers to share deal flow and co-investment opportunities at the pre-Series A stage.
- fundraisingA tactical workshop on Series A fundraising mechanics — pitch positioning, investor targeting, and back-channel feedback — tailored to seed-stage portfolio founders.
- introsA Stanford EE/MBA alumni founder dinner to surface technical co-founders and early-stage deal flow from the Stanford engineering community.
- introsA fintech-focused seed investor happy hour with other angels and micro-VCs active in payments, lending, and financial infrastructure to share deal flow.
- introsA SPAC sponsor and growth-stage operator dinner to reconnect with the network from the LightJump Capital era and explore late-stage co-investment opportunities.
- fundraisingAn office-hours session pairing Tunitas portfolio CEOs with experienced Series A investors for live pitch feedback and warm introductions.
- hiringA technical founder sourcing dinner targeting PhD-level engineers from Stanford and Berkeley who are building in AI, SaaS, or telecom infrastructure.