Former U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate who applies leadership and operational expertise to seed investing in Colorado Front Range, offering transparent, educational due diligence that builds investor confidence.

Adam Burrows pairs senior operating leadership at HomeAdvisor and Guild Education with Harvard Law and BCG experience, investing through an operator's lens and disciplined, empathetic support for scaling founders in Denver.

Adam Hammer, co-founder and CEO of a deep-tech studio in Albuquerque, translates national-security research into companies, leveraging investor/operator and defense-policy experience to de-risk national-lab tech transfer via hands-on company building.

Multi-time founder AJ Smith uses his failed startup and songwriting—having opened for the Eagles under mentor Glenn Frey—to coach founders with a 90‑second headline test and boxing/sweat-equity events.

Alexandra Vidyuk is a physicist and former international banker-turned-founder and investor who applies scientific rigor (three PhDs, a Nobel laureate), a founder-first approach, and a global deep-tech thesis.

Alex Roetter, ex-Twitter SVP of Engineering, founded Terraset to use philanthropic advanced-market commitments for engineered carbon removal, backs non-obvious tech like African electric buses, and flies Angel Flight missions.

Andrew Couillard—former Navy EOD who managed a $50M unmanned underwater vehicle portfolio—offers rare military AI/ML and autonomy experience, runs accelerator curriculum, and requires 300% probable demand before raises.

Arkady Kulik blends physics-trained rigor and music-industry creativity, bridges science and entrepreneurship, favors founders showing self-honesty and resilience, leverages AI research, backs multiple approaches, and targets non-invasive medicine and neurotechnology.

Arthur Karell, a Bronze Star–decorated Marine infantry officer who, after senior roles at FiscalNote, Anduril and Seashell and sourcing over $425M in acquisitions, focuses on defense and dual‑use seed-stage startups.

Bob Mason is an operator and former software engineer/CTO who helped take ATG and Brightcove public and steers founders toward focused verticals, practical AI wins, and clear product design.

Brandes Woodall moved from scout partner to full-time analyst, doubling the firm's investment team and combining early-stage diligence, operations and portfolio support for broader operational exposure than typical junior investors.

Brett uses DiSC assessments and structured founder habit scoring to back founders strengthened by struggle through venture studio work while outreaching 300 people weekly on LinkedIn to build a brand.

Caie is a General Partner focused on growth-stage opportunities who applies quantitative analysis to science-backed deep tech and has backed founders in batteries, alternative materials, circularity and climate software.

David Goldman, partner at an early-stage deep-tech fund, writes $3–12M first checks into semiconductors and AI and uses his LP and banking background to help founders read fund dynamics.

Ellen Chisa, Dark’s cofounder who built a backend language, editor and infrastructure, meets founders pre‑company and focuses on developer adoption via tight learning experiments to displace incumbents in 5–10 years.

Emily Lindberg, Associate and Head of Research, combines investing with a structured research function uncommon at early-stage firms and brings life-sciences experience from an MPM BioImpact fellowship and Nucleate networks.

Former Marine artillery officer and Marine reservist in the Pentagon innovation ecosystem, he focuses on cybersecurity, dual‑use, defense and space startups and builds founder relationships via ultrarunning Pitch and Run.

Ethan Austin, a former GiveForward founder with fintech, healthcare and social-impact experience, champions underestimated, nontraditional founders—outsiders and extreme personalities with non‑linear life paths.

Former pipeline engineer Grant Brown combines hands-on experience managing and rebuilding Louisiana gas plants after hurricanes with expertise integrating decarbonization technologies into heavy infrastructure and structuring venture–project finance–public sponsorship deals.

Harrison Dahme is a partner and CTO who combines venture decision-making with hands-on tech leadership, leveraging AI/ML since 2010, nine patents, repeat founder experience, and an AI agent framework.

Ian Rountree is a first-check investor backing pre-traction founders commercializing near frontier science in climate, defense, and industrial resilience, advocating full-stack deep tech and hosting the Near Frontier podcast.

Mike Steadman, a former Marine Corps infantry officer, three-time national boxing champion and venture partner, helps veteran and overlooked founders define and own market categories via his Category Whisperer approach.

Jack Dreifuss, an ex‑poker pro and strategy gamer turned operator with two exits, backs mission‑critical automated infrastructure (AI chip fabs, unmanned naval ships) while running consulting and marketing firms.

Jacob is a former founder, angel investor, and revenue/growth leader. He's co-GM at Deep Checks and an investment partner at Julian Capital, where he backs the world's most ambitious deeptech founders.

Jake Storm, named one of Business Insider's 2023 Rising Stars, backs Oso, Tines, Resourcely, focuses on software infrastructure and security tooling, and connects founders via skydiving, Ferrari racing, boating.

Jakob Diepenbrock started via the Ballmer family office, built in El Segundo around the defense‑hardware ecosystem, and runs immersive live‑in cohorts with 6 a.m. workouts and mentorship for technical founders.

Jason Chapman co-founded a gaming-focused VC with his brother and childhood friend, runs weekly sub-sector research debates to map trends, and gives transparent, actionable feedback inviting founders to return.

Jason Gray uniquely backs YC founders through Pioneer Fund, which holds the largest YC network of founders and mentors.

Jesse Marble is a people-first investor focused exclusively on healthy, active lifestyles, who—drawing on former CEO and marketing experience—partners with founders on go-to-market strategy and long-term behavior change.

John Forbes, an operator who served as Chief of Staff at Perimeter and helped it reach product-market fit, seeks founders revealing absolutely absurd secrets to spot frontier opportunities.

Jordan Wan, MIT engineer and founder of CloserIQ (served 600+ startups), helps founders design repeatable go-to-market motions to build revenue engines and initially raised his fund from founders he supported.

Josh Manchester, a former U.S. Marine Corps officer and solo GP, backs technology protecting government by consent and the free world; he was an early backer of Palantir and Anduril.

Kenan Saleh built Halo Cars with no-code and sold it to Lyft in 7–9 months, led Lyft Media, and now invests on a games-focused speedrun team after 50+ angel investments.

Kirby Winfield leverages four exits—two IPOs and two acqui-hires—to advise on wins and hard resets, builds a durable Pacific Northwest pre-seed ecosystem, and publishes frameworks plus workshops demystifying fundraising.

Kyle McNulty leverages hundreds of long-form cybersecurity interviews from his Secure Ventures podcast to develop deep pattern recognition for go-to-market and scaling, plus cross-domain insights across cyber, space, and energy.

Larsen Jensen, a two-time Olympic medalist and former Navy SEAL, hands-on helps commercial infrastructure, security, and AI companies win government contracts—his portfolio has closed roughly $500M in such deals.

Leo has two decades in climate tech; he led product at desalination startup Sandymount, was partner for global climate and deep‑tech investing, and holds an MIT PhD in low‑carbon desalination.

Leo Polovets, an early LinkedIn engineer who built Jobs and Groups, is known as the Coding VC for publishing engineering-style frameworks and evaluating startups as bundles of risks to de-risk.

Matias Zorrilla applies structured‑finance and late‑stage transaction expertise as a San Diego–based, first‑look gatekeeper for early‑stage defense and critical‑tech founders, offering quantitative, capital‑structure‑aware VC/accelerator partnership and fundraising guidance.

Mat Sherman, a builder‑GP who struggled as an outsider founder, focuses on overlooked founders outside major hubs by running incubators and sprints, sourcing via his Forward Thinking podcast and newsletter.

Matt Logan personally outreached 500+ companies—driving deals like KoBold Metals and Etched—and leverages climate experience and $200M project-finance plus Series B background, favoring cost-and-performance-first AI energy, robotics, space tech.

Mat Vogels is a designer-founder-investor who builds products (VC Sheet, Pineapple List, Pitch Colorado), focuses on infrastructure tools for the startup ecosystem, and brings design expertise to craft conversion-focused narratives.

Michael Gibson, a former philosophy professor and long-time Thiel Fellowship operator, applies a humanities lens—prioritizing reasoning and character over credentials—to spot unconventional young technical talent before teams coalesce.

Natty Zola is a startup founder turned investor. He was managing Director of TechStars Boulder and led six Techstars Boulder cohorts before starting Matchstick Ventures.

Paige Doherty authored Seed to Harvest (a children's VC book), syndicated $60K from 17 investors via Twitter outreach, and backs technical storyteller founders building vertical AI and clipboard software.

Patty combines Silicon Valley networks with engineering and industrial experience and a pragmatic, thesis-driven focus—early backing foundational hardtech and overlooked industries, earning a track record of unearthing breakout companies.

Philip Carson is a partner at a top Dallas VC fund, invests pre-seed–Series A in energy, defense and industrial tech—especially robotics, manufacturing, logistics and supply-chain/energy solutions—and is Moody Bible Institute and SMU Cox-trained.

Riley Loftus brings investment banking, software PE and seed VC experience with late-stage rigor and early-stage pattern recognition to advise deep-tech, defense, hardware-heavy founders on government contracting.

Rishabh Surendran is a deep‑tech investor, engages founders on product and model questions beyond the board while backing frontier AI that materially improves the world.

Santiago Pliego invests like a merchant-era explorer—meeting founders in mountains, deserts, and jungles—seeking hidden bottlenecks in physical industries like mining and often backing founders from short memos instead of decks.

Sarah Kunst, a conviction investor, backs founders before they have ideas, treats VC as service coaching investors and founders, and draws on her small‑town Michigan, non‑top‑university background and cold‑emailing experience.

Taylor Sargent combines hands-on technical experience as lead scientist for satellite communications and ground-station modernization at NASA Goddard with DARPA program-management deploying ~$130M across aerospace, quantum sensing and advanced materials.

Turner Novak used fantasy portfolios, detailed writing and Twitter memes to attract LPs and founder dealflow, and built a media machine including The Peel podcast to lend distribution to founders.

Zal Bilimoria, solo GP with product experience at Microsoft and Google, focuses on non-human genomics, synthetic biology and hard-science; he applies an engineering refactor-debug lens and tracks Net Promoter Score.