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As public market investors, we invest in mature companies benefitting from the trends transforming our world.
We’ve posted top-decile returns using our proprietary data-driven approach.
Prior to Studio, we built Sentieo, an Al-driven financial research platform that is used by some of the world's top investment funds.
We believe that entrepreneurs and their world-changing ideas drive forward human progress.
As venture investors, we write $500k to $1mm checks for startups across sectors and geographies.
We invest in startups between pre-seed and Series A across both software and consumer companies, with a focus on productivity, societal health, and well-being.
We build the future we want to live in, incubating our own companies when we discover an unfulfilled societal need.
As entrepreneurs now in the investing space, we are uniquely positioned to spot market opportunities underserved by existing companies
Our incubated companies have secured nine-figure exits and multi-million dollar raises. We have projects underway in the AI, social app, and wellness spaces.
Companies we've incubated and invested in
Sentieo is a financial research platform designed to empower financial teams. Using machine learning and natural language processing, Sentieo instantly surfaces textual and financial insights for investment management and corporate intelligence clients.
Thistle delivers delicious, ready-to-eat plant-forward meals, snacks, and juices right to your doorstep. The convenient subscription service empowers customers to improve personal and planetary health by eating more plants. Designed by nutritionists and crafted by chefs, Thistle meal designs reflect scientific, evidence-based principles of dietary choices that optimize health and longevity, featuring real, whole, plant-rich foods like fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, and whole grains. Above all, Thistle aims to show that eating a healthy, plant-forward, planet-friendly diet can be the most delicious option on the table.
DocSend is a secure document sharing and tracking solution that helps companies share business-critical documents with ease. Acquired by Dropbox in 2021.
Lightning Labs is developing Lightning: an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchains and smart contracts to make cheap, fast, private transactions available to anyone around the world.
Yassir is an African super app that offers on-demand services such as ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments.
Thesis is the world’s first personalized brain supplement, aka nootropics, brand. Powered by the world’s largest data set on the efficacy of nootropics and advised by neuroscientists from Yale, Penn, and MIT, Thesis’ products help deliver increased focus, creativity, energy, and memory in capsule form.
Condoit is an "electrician-first" platform that enables electrical firms of any size the ability to conduct electrical infrastructure assessments, design, and analysis remotely and collaboratively during the bid or project stages.
Outro Health
TeamLift
Foster
Glassbox Media
myPocketCFO
Persona
Braid Health
Neutronpay
Alap Shah is an investor and entrepreneur who relishes combining the two roles. He was previously the CEO and Chairman of Sentieo, a financial data platform he co-founded for hedge funds, mutual funds, investment banks, corporates and active individual investors. Sentieo had successfully secured over $70 million in funding with a successful exit to AlphaSense in 2022.
With fifteen years of professional investment experience, Alap's expertise spans large global equity portfolios at two of the world’s largest and most successful hedge funds (Viking Global and Citadel) to LBO and growth equity investments (Castanea Partners) to early-stage investments (White Ops, Wiser, Earnest Research, Powerlytics). He is also a co-founder and investor in Thistle, a health foods subscription service. Alap graduated from Harvard with an AB in Economics with honors.
Johnny Hwin is an artist and entrepreneur previously featured in a New Yorker article on San Francisco’s creative culture. He is a co-founder at Thistle and the songwriter/producer of Cathedrals, an indie-electronic pop duo The New York Times describes as “R&B with 1980s rock swagger.”
He has a BA in social psychology and an MS in technology entrepreneurship from Stanford University, where he launched his first company from the Stanford Facebook App Class. By night, he runs the San Francisco-based creative collective The SUB, whose latest art show “The 9 Cans of La Croix” garnered coverage from The Washington Post, Vice, and Elite Daily. He has advised and consulted a number of technology companies including Asana, DreamWorks, Lever, and Patreon.
Naman Shah is an entrepreneur and engineer with a deep-rooted expertise in product management. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Naman co-founded Sentieo, an award winning financial research platform, where he spent more than a decade as the President leading the Product, Engineering and Design teams (200+ individuals). Prior to Sentieo, Naman co-founded Sarvajal, a social enterprise in India devoted to delivering clean drinking water to the bottom of the pyramid. Naman is also a Co-founder & Investor in Thistle, a healthy food delivery subscription service. At Studio, Naman focuses on investing in technology startups while also helping portfolio companies recruit teams and build products.
Rob Matei is an engineer and entrepreneur with expertise in product-driven growth and building consumer apps. He’s built apps that have gotten hundreds of thousands of MAUs, led growth at Quora for 5 years, and is currently helping incubate and grow projects inside Studio.
Jacob Brown is an engineer who has advised AI startups and built fintech products. He was previously a quantitative strategist at Deutsche Bank, where he developed behavioral models that predict the impact of political and economic events on global financial markets. As a graduate of Princeton University, Jacob developed a patent-pending system to discover cyber vulnerabilities and protect large-scale IoT systems. Jacob’s other interests include backcountry hiking and thinking about the sociopolitical impact of AI systems. His insights have been published in several news outlets including the Wall Street Journal.
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