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500 Global portfolio leader turned GP building gAI Ventures
Credibility
Firm Standing · 95th percentile
- Approximately 16 years of investing experience, having started as an entrepreneur and investor around 2004 and formally at 500 Global.
- Publicly identified as an angel investor and technology investor across multiple sources.
- Active GP / fund manager working on gAI Ventures and previously led Portfolio Value at 500 Global, a $2.7B venture capital firm.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Past founder in fintech and ecommerce, including the startup Hungry Globetrotter.
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and technology investor across multiple sources.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Active GP / fund manager working on gAI Ventures and previously led Portfolio Value at 500 Global, a $2.7B venture capital firm.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Approximately 16 years of investing experience, having started as an entrepreneur and investor around 2004 and formally at 500 Global.
What you likely need
You're in a pivotal moment building gAI Ventures into a credible, visible fund, so the events most valuable to you are ones that put you in rooms with LPs, co-investors, and AI founders who can validate your thesis and accelerate deal flow. Your 500 Global network, UC Berkeley platform, and 'The Funding Framework' book are underleveraged assets that the right gatherings can activate into warm intros and inbound pipelines. Lean into positioning events that let you speak as an AI-focused fund manager, not just a coach or advisor.
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.
- fundraisingA roundtable dinner for emerging AI fund managers and their first-check LPs to pressure-test gAI Ventures' thesis and surface co-investment mandates
- introsA 500 Global alumni investor dinner to activate warm co-investment introductions and surface LP prospects already familiar with the 500 ecosystem
- positioningA small office hours session for founders who discovered gAI Ventures through 'The Funding Framework' book, converting readers into live deal flow pitches
- positioningA UC Berkeley Haas and EECS founder happy hour where you present gAI Ventures' AI investment thesis to surface warm inbound deals from the university's startup pipeline
- tacticalAn AngelList emerging manager meetup with other sub-$25M AI-focused fund GPs to benchmark portfolio visibility strategies and share syndicate co-investment deal flow
- tacticalA build-in-public dinner for AI-focused investor-writers growing Substack audiences past 5K subscribers, to swap content strategies and cross-promote newsletters like 'Startup System'
- positioningA curated dinner with 500 Global portfolio founders who have reached unicorn or near-unicorn valuations, to publicly document and surface those outcomes as gAI Ventures' highest-value investor signal
- fundraisingA happy hour for AI seed fund GPs and active angels writing $25K–$250K checks to establish gAI Ventures as a known co-investor and build a warm syndicate pipeline