It takes a constellation of different skills and experiences to make a successful company. We plan on leveraging the network of investors to offer founders help more seamlessly after Demo Day.

Why Us?

Alanna and Praful were batchmates in YC S15. As YC alumni, we are exposed to a large number of startups (pre-YC, YC, non-YC) and have a diverse set of founder expertise to draw upon in making investment decisions. Since YC, we've gone on to leaderships roles in growth and engineering (respectively) across a variety of industries. They're passionate about helping startups succeed and spotting great talent. Here's our advantage:

Access to YC companies: as former YC founders (S15), we have access as alums ahead of day, are able to track company progress and gain feedback leading up to demo day.

Identify top companies in the batch: We have a wide range of expertise from FinTech, to LatAm, to logistics, to deep tech.

• Alanna ran a growth marketing consulting firm, and acted as an interim VP/Head of Growth for 3 YC companies including Flutterwave, on YC's most valuable company list. She's worked across healthcare (Allergan), Emerging Markets, FinTech and B2B SaaS. This experience gave her the ability to develop deep pattern matching skills within growth, which is complemented by her time as a venture partner at Soma Capital, a top seed stage fund in SF. Alanna was also an advisor to Techstars New York (2018-2019).
• Praful has over a decade of engineering experience acting as CTO/engineering leader at Shotput (YCS15), AmpIdea (Techstars 09, sold to Verifone) and Comfrieght (backed by MHS Capital and Initialized Capital).

Here are some of our areas of interest:

• International: With the increase of amount of capital invested in deals surging from $52B in 2010 to $171B in 2017, there has been a decrease of deals in the US vs. the rest of the world by a little more than half from mid-1990s to 2017. A number of U.S. cities continue to dominate the global landscape, including the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, but the rest of the world is gaining ground rapidly. We believe some of the biggest future unicorns exist outside of the US in emerging economies due to urbanization, change in economics, decrease in cost of technologies.
• Fintech: Payments technology is key infrastructural component to developing economies, and in the developed world. The world’s financial systems are unable to meet the demands of consumers and businesses currently.
• Digital Health: Healthcare represents the next wave of opportunity in the US due to the rise of costs, changes in policy, an aging population, and rise of holistic care where healthcare providers are being pushed to innovatively improve service and cost.The first half of 2019 recorded a slight increase in health tech M&A activity, with a healthy 100 deals inked and around $8.3 billion in disclosed transaction value throughout the period2

We will syndicate all of our deals.