Angel investor & operator · Santa Monica & Montecito, CA
I write early checks into pre-seed and seed companies in robotics,
manufacturing, and everything else on my research
list. The rest of my time goes to building software and working
with founders and investment teams.
STN 46221 · SANTA MONICASWELL 3.2 FTWATER 64°F34.02°N 118.49°WSTATUS OFFSHORE
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Angel investments
Personal checks at pre-seed and seed, with larger syndicated allocations case by case.
AnatarSEEDAmerican-made textiles, composites, and soft goods engineered for aerospace and defense.
Blue Ocean MaterialsSEEDPrecision-cut, certified engineering plastics for machine shops, aerospace, and semiconductor buyers. SendCutSend for plastics.
RoboSEEDAffordable, fast-to-deploy robots for the manual work traditional automation never solved. Actively deployed in commercial facilities today.
Transcend MechanicsSEEDGenerative design for compliant mechanisms, making robotic hardware radically cheaper – starting with grippers. Read my deep dive
Convergence2026 · YEAR 1 OF 50A lifelong research project leveraging Hermes Agent, tracing how consciousness evolves and how ideas go from "that's insane" to "that was obvious," to map where the world goes next.
What's next2026 · IN PROGRESSSearching for SMB acquisition targets where robotics and AI can 10x a business that already works.
HEAT2022–2025 · SUNSETA marketplace for human motion data, backed by A16Z Speedrun. Born too early to power the humanoid robotics revolution, too late for Hollywood mocap.
Signature Resolution2019–2022 · EXITLed business development, recruitment, and special projects at the fastest-growing private mediation firm in the country.
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Writing
The Factory is the Moat2026Reshoring, reindustrialization, and compounding data advantage. Why the durable moats are migrating from software to the physical layer, and what HEAT taught me about it.