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Yale MS AI engineer turned angel investor building Entelechy Ventures via Hustle Fund
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 52th percentile
- Publicly identified as an angel investor, actively investing in early-stage AI-native B2B companies.
- Venture Fellow at Hustle Fund since April 2021, evaluating early-stage companies and supporting portfolio companies.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account created in January 2011, giving it over 14 years of tenure.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Active builder with 21 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Identified GitHub account @mbarbanson confirmed by name match.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Current founder of Entelechy Ventures, an early-stage angel investing firm she started in January 2026.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Actively shipping code with 582 private/restricted GitHub contributions in the last year, indicating daily private engineering work despite a quiet public profile.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)583 total GitHub contributions in the trailing 12 months across commits, PRs, and reviews.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Founded companies raised approximately $150k in total venture capital.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Past co-founder of Startup Monthly, a startup accelerator modeled on Steve Blank's Lean Launchpad course.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Co-founded Startup Monthly alongside at least one other co-founder.
Investor score
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, actively investing in early-stage AI-native B2B companies.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Venture Fellow at Hustle Fund since April 2021, evaluating early-stage companies and supporting portfolio companies.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Active GP and fund manager as Founder of Entelechy Ventures, an angel investing firm she runs.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Approximately 4 years of active investing experience since joining Hustle Fund's Angel Squad in April 2021.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Made an investment in Rev Delivery, the company that acquired Duffl.
What you likely need
You're a technically-grounded operator-turned-investor with 20 years in enterprise data and AI, now building Entelechy Ventures and deepening your angel practice through Hustle Fund. The highest-leverage events for you right now are those that sharpen your deal flow in AI infrastructure and security, connect you with other Hustle Fund Angel Squad members and pre-seed founders, and help you position Entelechy Ventures as a credible early check in the enterprise AI stack. Your engineering background and GTM experience at Fastly and Affirm make you a compelling value-add investor — events that let you demonstrate that to founders will accelerate your portfolio.
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 Hustle Fund Angel Squad dinner with fellow members to share deal flow in AI infrastructure and co-invest on pre-seed rounds.
- introsA roundtable for founders building enterprise AI security and data infrastructure products where you can offer operator diligence and early checks from Entelechy Ventures.
- introsA Fastly and Affirm alumni happy hour to source technical co-founders and early-stage deals in the CDN, fintech, and data platform space.
- positioningA workshop for emerging angel fund managers on positioning a sub-$5M vehicle to institutional LPs and building a repeatable deal sourcing process.
- introsA Yale CS alumni founder dinner to build warm relationships with technical founders in AI and connect them to your Hustle Fund network.
- tacticalAn office-hours session for pre-seed AI-native B2B founders where you provide GTM and data infrastructure feedback in exchange for early deal access.
- fundraisingA UC Berkeley Haas MBA investor network dinner to meet other operator-angels writing early checks in enterprise software and AI.