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Essay
Published an essay on how portfolio founders use Vela's AI coaching tool for sales, hiring, and leadership pattern detection.
How Founders Use an AI Coach: Sales, Hiring, and Leadership
Published a quant-VC essay arguing that access to exceptional teams, not contrarian thinking, drives top venture outcomes.
Contrarian vs Consensus in Venture Capital: A Quant VC Framework
Investment
Participated in ReFiBuy's $13.6M oversubscribed seed round for agentic commerce infrastructure.
ReFiBuy
5 essays· MAR 2026 – APR 2026Show all
Essay
Published a practical guide explaining Vela's quantitative, AI-native approach to venture investing.
What Is a Quant VC? A Practical Guide to Quantitative and AI-Native Venture Capital
Essay
Published a plain-English guide explaining quantitative and AI-native venture capital methodology.
What Is a Quant VC? A Practical Guide to Quantitative Venture Capital
Essay
Published technical essay on forking KuzuDB and benchmarking graph memory for production AI agents.
KuzuDB for Production AI Agents: Our Fork, the Benchmarks, and Why Graph Memory Works
Essay
Published research on using graph databases for multi-agent memory systems, including Vela's fork of KuzuDB with concurrent write support.
KuzuDB for Production AI Agents: Graph Memory Architecture
Essay
Published analysis of 854 open-source repositories identifying nineteen AI infrastructure trends including MCP and agentic frameworks.
19 Emerging Trends Reshaping Open-Source AI Infrastructure in 2026
Investment
Participated in Pensive's $6.8M seed round for AI-assisted grading and personalized learning in higher education.
Pensive
Exit
Portfolio company Limitless (AI wearable pendant) was acquired by Meta to accelerate AI-enabled wearables development.
Limitless
Investment
Participated in HiVerge's $5M seed round; company founded by Google DeepMind alumni to build an algorithm discovery engine.
HiVerge
Exit
Portfolio company Vartana was acquired by Capchase to redefine the future of vendor financing.
Vartana
Investment
Led Bito's $5.7M seed extension to expand its AI code review platform with codebase awareness.
Bito
Essay
Published research on the Startup Success Forecasting Framework (SSFF), an AI agent that evaluates startups at 100x lower cost than human analysts.
New AI agent for venture capital: 100x cheaper, 5x faster