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OVO Fund

OVO Fund

OVO Fund: Negative one to zero Pre-seed Specialists. Your most meaningful thought-partner, from first check to IPO.

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Gianfranco Filice

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Founders, please reach out over email: firstname [at] OVOFund.com // Gianfranco Filice is an Investment Partner with OVO Fund, a premier pre-seed stage institutional fund based in Menlo Park, California. OVO's first-check portfolio includes the likes of Wish (NASDAQ: WISH), Sourcegraph (DevOps, $2B+), Addepar (Fintech, $2B+), Everlaw (SaaS Legal, $2B+), and Signifyd (Fintech, $1.3B+). As an investor, Gianfranco applies his expertise in nurturing teams building emergent technologies, and maintaining conviction long when the hype and frenzy have died down. His investment focus is primarily centered around financial technology, artificial intelligence (LLMs/autonomous agents), and decentralized systems. His investment approach revolves around backing pioneering infrastructure technologies and enabling the shift from current digital platforms to up-and-coming innovations. Before venture investing, Gianfranco was a TMT investment banker at Barclays Capital in Menlo Park. Previous internship experience includes stints at McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, and Matrix Partners. Gianfranco actively writes about technologies at the bleeding edge at https://filice.beehiiv.com, focusing on applying a first-principles approach. Gianfranco's approach to writing is demonstrated by the following: "Write to be useful, not to sound smart. The harder people have to work to understand what you've written, the less they'll want your input." When Gianfranco is not spending his time investing, he volunteers as a business mentor for SCORE's San Francisco Chapter. Gianfranco graduated with a degree in economics from Stanford University. He is conversationally proficient in Italian. He is a first-generation American and the first in his family to attend college.

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Seed stage tech investor who co-founded an e-commerce company, worked at an enterprise IT startup, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker. I'm interested in meeting scrappy, persistent, visionary and high integrity entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulder. Specialties: Seed Stage Investing, US / China Startups, Capital Raising including Seed Stage Syndication, Supporting Entrepreneurs

Ryan C.C. Chin, Ph.D.

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Co-founder and COO @ TRAM Global Inc.

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Driving real-world blockchain adoption by helping builders create useful products.

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Business developer, digital media and marketing leader and proven entrepreneur. Extensive experience defining and scaling technology-driven business models, content and products. Specialties: Business development, brand strategy, brand storytelling, brand marketing, customer experience, customer journey, emerging technology, product management and marketing, digital marketing, digital media, immersive media, experiential marketing, social marketing, demand generation, communications, online community, digital media, content strategy, content sourcing, creation distribution, enterprise software, VR, AR, XR.

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GP @ a16z crypto. See disclosures: a16z.com/disclosures/

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Pankaj Shah is a founder, investor, advisor and treasure hunter. He is a co-founder of Sankhara, an alternative asset fund focused on collecting the human experience and creating joy, wonder and awe. He is also the Managing Director of Finches, a Silicon Valley-based investment and advisory firm. He is an early backer and/or advisor to Addepar, Amity Ventures, BuildZoom, Easyknock, GOAT Fuel, Kiwi Crate, LineLeap, Montage Ventures, nOps, OpenGov, OVO Fund, PAIR Eyewear, Precursor Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Tuesday Capital and dozens of other entities. Finches also owns a stake in Cibona, a Croatian basketball team and La Leyenda, an award-winning full-term agave brand. His current philanthropic focus is with the Angiogenesis Foundation. Pankaj is also an advocate for Every Mother Counts, Virgin Unite and Witness. Previously, he proudly served on the Board of Directors for BRAC USA and Girls, Inc and supported Music Rising. Pankaj has been a guest speaker at a number of top schools, including Columbia University, Harvard University, New York University, Stanford University, Tufts University and the University of California Haas Graduate School of Business. He loves to listen to music, play sports, travel and hang out with his kids.

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Product Lead | ex-Spotify, LinkedIn | Stanford CS & Philosophy

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Pankaj Shah is a founder, investor, advisor and treasure hunter. He is a co-founder of Sankhara, an alternative asset fund focused on collecting the human experience and creating joy, wonder and awe. He is also the Managing Director of Finches, a Silicon Valley-based investment and advisory firm. He is an early backer and/or advisor to Addepar, Amity Ventures, BuildZoom, Easyknock, GOAT Fuel, Kiwi Crate, LineLeap, Montage Ventures, nOps, OpenGov, OVO Fund, PAIR Eyewear, Precursor Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Tuesday Capital and dozens of other entities. Finches also owns a stake in Cibona, a Croatian basketball team and La Leyenda, an award-winning full-term agave brand. His current philanthropic focus is with the Angiogenesis Foundation. Pankaj is also an advocate for Every Mother Counts, Virgin Unite and Witness. Previously, he proudly served on the Board of Directors for BRAC USA and Girls, Inc and supported Music Rising. Pankaj has been a guest speaker at a number of top schools, including Columbia University, Harvard University, New York University, Stanford University, Tufts University and the University of California Haas Graduate School of Business. He loves to listen to music, play sports, travel and hang out with his kids.