Meka Asonye

Meka Asonye is a Partner at First Round Capital based in San Francisco, California, where he specializes in seed and Series A investments across the software and technology sectors. Before transitioning to venture capital, he served as a Product Lead at Square, where he scaled consumer and commerce products, and held product management roles at Dropbox and Asana. The Stanford University graduate has backed more than 20 companies as a partner, including notable investments in Notion, Ramp, Hex, and a 2024 Series B round for the AI coding platform Replit. He frequently shares his expertise in product development and go-to-market strategies, having published frameworks on the First Round Review and spoken at industry events like TechCrunch Disrupt. Asonye currently focuses on identifying and supporting early-stage founders building scalable technologies in enterprise software, artificial intelligence, developer tools, and fintech.