Hands-on partners to founders building at the intersection of AI, markets infrastructure, and finance.
NYC-anchored. Markets-coded. Technical depth and growth as a product capability. We ship code and write the playbook alongside founders, not as advisors.
Technical and product partnership for founders building agentic systems. Architecture, deployment, frontier model integration. We've shipped agentic pipelines into production and contributed to frontier-model training work.
Our home turf. Fintech, prediction markets, capital markets infrastructure, agentic finance. We're building Veynor — agentic infrastructure for prediction markets — ourselves. When we say we've done it, we mean it.
GTM strategy and execution for AI-native startups. The playbook and the network: Pulse newsletter to ~800 NYC fintech and AI operators, NYC Founders & Operators community, curated audience that converts. Distribution as a product capability.
Wharton. BCG. Ex-Coinbase. Ex-Treasury. Access to NYC's fintech-AI rooms and European LP networks, plus the regulatory and policy fluency founders need when AI products run into financial regulation, market structure, or governance questions.
Hands-on technical and growth partnership with the YC-backed team building an agentic AI operating system. Architecture, GTM, and ecosystem access.
Built the GTM engine from zero for a vertical AI platform serving specialty healthcare clinics. GTM engineering, IRL outreach, and pipeline machine. Drove $500K+ in qualified pipeline.
Strategic advisor to an AI-native diligence platform serving private markets dealmakers. Sourced and helped land strategic partnerships to unlock distribution into NYC's dealmaking ecosystem.
Veynor — agentic infrastructure for prediction markets. Live signals from Polymarket and Kalshi, oracles, and agents that act on calibrated edge. It's how we keep our hands dirty on the same problems we work on with founders.
~800 founders and operators read it. 62% open rate. No bullshit.
Drop your email. New issue every two weeks.
Biweekly curated rooftops and runs for NYC founders and operators in fintech, AI, and prediction markets. ~1,000 calendar subscribers. Approval-based, intentionally small in the room, intentionally good.
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