We're halfway through the year, and I realized I haven't made nearly as many angel investments as I wanted to. If you're raising your pre-seed/seed (in any industry), I'd love to meet you. I invest personally or from Next Wave NYC ($50,000 check) Some companies I invested in include Wispr Flow, Superpower, Othership, Pie, Windmill, Zo Computer, Carry, Boardy, Micro, Migrate Mate, Virtu AI, Blindspot, Goodword & many others. Comment below on what you're building!
I’m a cofounder of WVN, an intelligence platform that enables IRL spaces and live brand activations to learn autonomously. Result: Autopilot for teams to collect better data, make more money, and enhance the customer experience. Working with brands like PepsiCo and Mugsy. Mixed-gender team who previously built experiential tech for Google, TikTok, Meta, and the NFL. Closing our Seed round this summer.
Building something pretty unconventional: an adaptive AI system that combines planning, memory, evidence tracking, and autonomous reasoning into a local-first intelligence framework. Still early, but the goal is to explore what happens when AI moves beyond chat and starts maintaining context, learning from observations, and making decisions over time. Would love to connect with other builders experimenting at the edge of AI + software systems.
palantir for local businesses → we generate customers for local businesses (starting with restaurants, specifically chains at first) by learning who buys, when, and why - then autonomously targeting their clients.
10k active users $1500 MRR 30 day launch Social networking for same place / same Time Cruises, hotels, clubs, bars No more strangers - match with others who will already be there
Private social platform for LGBTQ+ folks in work and business. 12k members, 60k connections, 45k messages exchanged, early revenue.
Intelligent Operating System for hiring. Embedded within existing CRM and ATS, instantly making theit legacy technology Intelligent, removing the need to upgrade.
Synaptic Chain has built the sandbox for the Visa Artemis agentic transaction layer 1. It's the rails for on demand liquidity any corridor in the world. Sub 500ms finality and infinity speed TPS. Eliminate nostro/vostro banking. RWA IoT M2M, a fully auditable carbon credit marketplace 100% on chain solving double spend and fraud. 40k users
NextStopAI, Inc. we make legacy OTAs look dishonest. Zero commissions, flat fee, fully unbiased AI that turns your travel Reels into a completely booked trip. We also built a savings wallet so users can save toward their dream trip weekly, because the barrier to travel isn't desire, it's capital.