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Updated: Jan 6, 2026 ·

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I lead multi-asset investing and corporate development for a family capital group…

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Sep 1, 2025	Outrove	$500K Seed	—	Y Combinator
Aug 1, 2025	FORT Robotics	$19.0M Series B	—	1435 Capital Management, Aglae Ventures, Somesh Surapureddi, DFJ, E1 Ventures, Future Ventures, Gigafund, GoAhead Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Lakeside Capital, Litquidity Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Malex Enterprises, Mana Ventures, Outliers Fund, Partners Resolute, Social Capital, Space Capital, Starbridge Venture Capital, TCV, Tiger Global Management, Upfront Ventures, UpHonest Capital, Adeel Hussain, Fanny Surjana, Ishani Patel, Louis Beryl, Mark Cuban, Mattia Astori, Priyank Chandra, Rashaun Williams, Richard Cooperstein, Scott Banister, Shane Neman, Siddharth Singhal, Tim Ringel, Vikas Sabnani
Aug 1, 2025	Oway	$4.0M Seed	—	10100, Alumni Ventures, Comal Ventures, Day One Ventures, Fuel Capital, Glade Brook Capital Partners, Gradient Ventures, Maple VC, Jonathan Golden, OpenCapital.vc, Pioneer Fund, Predictive VC, Runa Capital, Soma Capital, Summit Partners, Y Combinator, Alexander Zhuravlev, Alex Zhuravlev, Dharmesh Shah, Diego Oppenheimer, Furqan Rydhan, Hubert Thieblot, Jean Charles Samuelian, Kulveer Taggar, Mathilde Collin, Oliver Jung, Paul Graham, Pete Koomen, Sahin Boydas, Sergei Anikin, Tom Blomfield
Jul 1, 2025	Wafer	$800K Seed	—	Y Combinator, Kulveer Taggar
Apr 1, 2025	Empyrean Technologies Ltd.	$3.0M Seed	—	DreamIt Ventures, PhD, Rain Cui, PhD, MBA
Mar 1, 2025	Vovana	$500K Seed	—	ARCH Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital Partners, FTX Ventures, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Mubadala, Y Combinator, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, Eoghan McCabe, Karim Atiyeh, Scott Belsky
Mar 1, 2025	Flock Safety	$280.0M Series F	—	11, 355 Capital, Acequia Capital, Also Capital, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Angel investor, Anorak Ventures, Blu Venture Investors, Boost VC, C2 Investment, Cedar Capital Group, Champion Hill Labs, Rachel Slaybaugh, DTCP, Founders Fund, Greylock, Helium-3 Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Matrix, Meritech Capital Partners, Openview Venture Partners, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Race Capital, Sapphire Ventures, sequel, Thrive Capital, Tribe Capital, Union Square Ventures, UpHonest Capital, Anjney Midha, Bartek Pucek, Brendan Iribe, Charlie Songhurst, Chintan Patel, Jared Sleeper, Justin Mateen, Kevin Lin, Matt Bellamy, Mattia Astori, Mike Krieger, Miras Mami, Peter Sonsini, Siqi Chen, Tom McInerney
Jan 1, 2025	Caseflood.ai	$500K Seed	—	Bascom Ventures, UCeed Funds, Y Combinator
Jan 1, 2025	Air	$35.0M Series B	—	355 Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Angel investor, Cedar Capital Group, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Lerer Hippeau, Race Capital, State of Mind Ventures, Thrive Capital, UpHonest Capital, Alex Oppenheimer, Chintan Patel, Mattia Astori, Miras Mami, Peter Sonsini
Dec 1, 2024	Perplexity	$500.0M Series D	—	355 Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Angel investor, Cedar Capital Group, Flex Capital, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Race Capital, Thrive Capital, UpHonest Capital, Y Combinator, Chintan Patel, Jared Sleeper, Miras Mami, Peter Sonsini, Vishal Rao
Aug 1, 2024	Butlr	$38.0M Series B	—	20VC, Accomplice VC, Alabaster, Blockchain Capital, Buckley Ventures, Matt Ocko, DX Ventures, Founder Collective, Foundry Group, Fusion Fund, Gradient Ventures, Haun Ventures, Hemi Ventures, KAAN Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Overtly Covert, Pantera Capital, Pareto Holdings, Pioneer Fund, Polychain Capital, Primetime Partners, Robot Ventures, Scale Asia Ventures, SOSV, Stata Venture Partners, Summit Partners, Tiger Global Management, Winklevoss Capital, Aymerik Renard, Cameron Teitelman, David Hoffman, Joi Ito, Paul Veugen, Peter Bell, PhD, Rain Cui, PhD, MBA, Scott Belsky, Stani Kulechov
Apr 1, 2024	Perplexity	$63.0M Series C	—	20VC, 2.12 Angels, 355 Capital, Kevin Hartz, Accomplice VC, Ambush Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Angel investor, Asylum Ventures, C2 Investment, Catalio Capital, Cedar Capital Group, Costanoa Ventures, DTCP, E1 Ventures, EQT Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Fifty Years, Floodgate, Founders Fund, GSV Acceleration, Hanabi Capital, Hardware Club, Haun Ventures, Heroic Ventures, HOF Capital, Infinite Niches, Inflection, Insight Partners, Jefferies, Kindred Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital, Matchstick Ventures, Maven Ventures, Mustard Seed, NFX, Northzone, Race Capital, Rakuten Ventures, Refactor Capital, Sherpalo Ventures, Spark Capital, Susa Ventures, The Hit Forge, Thrive Capital, Uncork Capital, Union Square Ventures, UpHonest Capital, Wayra UK, Y Combinator, Aaron Harris, Amjad Masad, Andy Coravos, Anne Wojcicki, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, Charlie Songhurst, Chintan Patel, Fidji Simo, Jared Sleeper, Jonathan Lenson, Justin Kitch, Jutta Steiner, Mike Vernal, Mike Volpe, Miras Mami, Peter Sonsini, Sahin Boydas, Scott Belsky, Varsha Rao
Mar 1, 2024	Tierra Biosciences	$11.0M Series A	—	1435 Capital Management, Aglae Ventures, Somesh Surapureddi, DFJ, E1 Ventures, Future Ventures, Gigafund, GoAhead Ventures, Lakeside Capital, Litquidity Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Malex Enterprises, Outliers Fund, Partners Resolute, Social Capital, Space Capital, Starbridge Venture Capital, UpHonest Capital, Adeel Hussain, Fanny Surjana, Ishani Patel, Louis Beryl, Mattia Astori, Priyank Chandra, Rashaun Williams, Richard Cooperstein, Scott Banister, Shane Neman, Siddharth Singhal, Tim Ringel, Vikas Sabnani
Mar 1, 2024	ZayZoon	$11.0M Series B	—	Framework Venture Partners, Intuit Ventures
Feb 1, 2024	Marqo	$13.0M Series A	—	Blackbird Ventures Australia, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed India Partners, PhD, Rain Cui, PhD, MBA
Oct 1, 2023	Glydways	$56.0M Series B	—	Alumni Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Stata Venture Partners, Tenfore Holdings, Unless, PhD, Rain Cui, PhD, MBA
Aug 1, 2023	Marqo	$5.0M Seed	—	Blackbird Ventures Australia, PhD, Rain Cui, PhD, MBA
Jun 1, 2023	Outbound AI	$16.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, Anderson Angels, Bascom Ventures, DBL Partners, Madrona Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, The Hit Forge, Charles Zedlewski, Diego Oppenheimer, Jeff Hammerbacher
Feb 1, 2023	Nimble Science	$2.0M Seed	—	Framework Venture Partners, Intuit Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Bascom Ventures
Jan 1, 2023	XanderGlasses	$1.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Stata Venture Partners, Tenfore Holdings, Unless, PhD, Rain Cui, PhD, MBA
Sep 1, 2022	Alcatraz AI	$25.0M Series A	—	Hemi Ventures, KAAN Ventures, Point Judith Capital, Stata Venture Partners, Aymerik Renard, PhD, Rain Cui, PhD, MBA
Sep 1, 2022	HopSkipDrive	$37.0M Series D	—	01 Advisors, 1776, Accel, Afore Capital, Aleph VC, Alumni Ventures, Amplify Partners, Anderson Angels, Andreessen Horowitz, Avalancha Ventures, Backend Capital, Bascom Ventures, Basecamp Fund, Blisce, Buckley Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Cowboy Ventures, DBL Partners, Dimension Capital, Draper Associates, E14 Fund, Energy Impact Partners, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Felix Capital, FirstMark Capital, Floodgate, Flucas Ventures, Gotham Gal Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Human Augmentation Syndicate, Humba Ventures, Infinite Niches, Left Lane Capital, March Capital, Modern Venture Partners, Montage Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Nyca Partners, Otherwise Fund, Parkway VC, Prototype Capital, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Rainfall Ventures, Relay Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Shrug Capital, SignalFire, Howard Lindzon, Sound Ventures, Stage 2 Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Susa Ventures, SV Angel, Greg Bettinelli, TCG (The Chernin Group), The Hit Forge, Transmedia Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, VZVC, Weekend Fund, What If Ventures, XFactor Ventures, Y Combinator, Alain Hanover, Alper Kiresepi, Andrew Bialecki, Anna Patterson, Chad Nitschke, Charlie Songhurst, Daria Derkach, Erick Miller, Eric Ries, Farzad Nazem, Howard Charney, Ian McNish, John Fontein, Josh Spear, Kevin Weil, Michael Birch, Moshe Lifschitz, Nico Rosberg, Peter Hunn, Richard Cooperstein, Rudra Peram, Sahin Boydas, Sean Park, Tyler Willis, Yagiz Sozmen, Zach Segal
Jul 1, 2022	Butlr	$22.0M Series A	—	Andreessen Horowitz, Blu Venture Investors, Ecosystem Integrity, Hemi Ventures, KAAN Ventures, Preface Ventures, Primetime Partners, Scale Asia Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Seven Seven Six, SNR, Stata Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, True Ventures, Aymerik Renard, Oleg Rogynskyy, PhD, Rain Cui, PhD, MBA, Ron Pragides, Tom Williams
May 1, 2022	BRELYON	$16.0M Series A	—	Alumni Ventures, E14 Fund, Fontinalis Partners, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Monozukuri Ventures, Stata Venture Partners, Tenfore Holdings, Unless, Marc Benioff, PhD, Rain Cui, PhD, MBA
May 1, 2022	Airspace	$70.0M Series D	—	Alumni Ventures, Anderson Angels, Andreessen Horowitz, Atlantic Bridge, Bascom Ventures, BMW i Ventures, DBL Partners, Dynamo Ventures, Flyover Capital, Glasswing Ventures, Index Ventures, Keshif Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, SNR, Telstra Ventures, The Hit Forge, Trajectory Ventures, Marcus Bartram

Financial History

Total Raised

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Leadership Team

Key people at Family Office.

Single Family Office Director

Kamil Kucharczyk

Partner

Cody Shandraw

Director of Business Development

Leadership Team

Key people at Family Office.

Single Family Office Director

Kamil Kucharczyk

Partner

Cody Shandraw

Director of Business Development

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

A family office is a private entity established to manage the wealth and financial affairs of a single wealthy family, typically with investable assets exceeding $50–100 million. Its mission centers on preserving, growing, and transferring family wealth across generations while providing comprehensive services beyond investment management, including estate planning, tax strategy, philanthropy coordination, and lifestyle management. Family offices invest across various asset classes such as private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, and real estate, often tailoring strategies to the family's expertise and values. They play a significant role in the startup ecosystem by directly investing in private companies and venture opportunities, leveraging their capital and networks to support innovation and growth[1][2][4].

Origin Story

Family offices originated as private firms managing the financial affairs of ultra-wealthy families like the Rockefellers or Vanderbilts, evolving from simple wealth management to holistic family governance and legacy planning. Typically founded by the family or their trusted advisors, these offices have expanded their focus over time from tax and investment management to include concierge services, legal affairs, and education for younger generations. The evolution reflects the increasing complexity of managing multi-generational wealth and the desire to centralize decision-making and preserve family values[1][3][5].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Family offices often combine passive asset allocation with active direct investments in private businesses, real estate, and alternative assets, leveraging the family’s expertise and risk tolerance.
Network Strength: They benefit from deep relationships within financial, legal, and philanthropic communities, enabling access to exclusive investment opportunities.
Track Record: Many family offices have a long history of wealth preservation and growth, with performance tied directly to the family’s capital and legacy.
Operating Support: Beyond investments, they provide comprehensive services including tax planning, estate and trust management, philanthropy coordination, and lifestyle management such as property and staff oversight[1][2][5].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Family offices are increasingly influential in the tech startup ecosystem, riding the trend of direct private investments and venture capital participation. Their timing is favorable due to growing wealth concentration and the desire for alternative investments beyond public markets. Market forces such as technological innovation, startup proliferation, and the need for patient capital align with family offices’ long-term investment horizons. By providing capital, strategic advice, and network access, family offices help fuel innovation and scale emerging companies, often filling gaps left by traditional venture capital firms[1][4].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking forward, family offices are expected to deepen their involvement in technology and impact investing, driven by younger generations’ values and the evolving landscape of wealth management. Trends such as ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) investing, digital asset management, and global diversification will shape their strategies. Their influence may grow as they become more sophisticated, collaborative, and proactive in startup ecosystems, potentially reshaping how innovation is funded and scaled. Ultimately, family offices will continue to balance wealth preservation with dynamic investment approaches, ensuring their legacy endures across generations[2][5].

Sources

High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Family offices often combine passive asset allocation with active direct investments in private businesses, real estate, and alternative assets, leveraging the family’s expertise and risk tolerance.
Network Strength: They benefit from deep relationships within financial, legal, and philanthropic communities, enabling access to exclusive investment opportunities.
Track Record: Many family offices have a long history of wealth preservation and growth, with performance tied directly to the family’s capital and legacy.
Operating Support: Beyond investments, they provide comprehensive services including tax planning, estate and trust management, philanthropy coordination, and lifestyle management such as property and staff oversight[1][2][5].