American by choice. South African by birth.
I build and back companies that help founders, immigrants and homeowners build America.
Castle: Wire-free escrow payments for title companies. Auxilia: Business operations, powered by people and AI. Ellis: A modern immigration law firm. Acquired Waypoint. Work-Bench: Seed-stage venture capital backing enterprise founders. Also: Angel investor and advisor to startups.
Experiment Fund: Seed fund for Harvard & MIT founders. Acquired. Education: Harvard (AB), YC (S07), Harvard GSD (MDes), Harvard SEAS (EIR).
P.S. Occasional ghostwriter for classical liberalism: a grateful immigrant doing the jobs most socialists won’t. 🏴☠️
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