Angel Investing

Together with Sue Odio, I angel invest small ($2.5k - $5k) checks in early-stage startups we’re excited about. Think of us as advisors with skin in the game — we love helping with tricky, ambiguous problems, providing access to our networks and audiences, or even just lending an ear.

Max is one of our highest value-add investors: he constantly gives us good product feedback and knows everything about open source. On top of that, every time he talks about us to his developer audience our stats go wild. – Brendan Falk, CEO at Fig

If you’re founding a startup and think this could be a good fit we’d love to meet you. Send us an email and let’s chat!

What we invest in

We invest first-and-foremost in the people. Our main filter is “Do we believe these founders can go through the one-of-a-kind challenge of building a company that can change the world?”

We love investing early to make the most of the limited amount of money we have. The earlier, the better.

I personally love investing in products that I (would) use myself, even more so if they’re products aimed at developers.

Investments

So far, I have invested in:

  • Fly.io
    a developer-focused cloud for deploying apps close to users
    Series A -> $70M Series C led by EQT Ventures
  • Incident.io
    the #1 platform for incident management
    Seed -> $62M Series B led by Insight Partners
  • Raycast
    an extensible MacOS launcher
    Series A -> $30M Series B led by Atomico
  • DX
    the developer experience platform
    Seed
  • Clerk
    a complete suite to authenticate and manage users
    Seed -> $30M Series B led by CRV
  • Upstash
    a data platform for the serverless world
    Seed -> $10M Series A led by a16z
  • Zed
    a high-performance, multiplayer code editor
    Seed -> $32M Series B led by Sequoia
  • Liveblocks
    a toolchain to build real-time collaborative products
    Seed
  • Arcjet
    a security layer for Node.js
    Seed
  • Remote First Capital
    a fund by Andreas Klinger
    Fund II
  • Magic Bell
    an embeddable notification system
    Seed
  • DevJobs
    a job matching platform for developers
    Seed
  • Outsmartly
    a CDN for performantly personalizing websites
    Series A
  • Storytell.ai
    an AI tool to extract signal from noise
    Seed
  • Campsite (acq. by Notion)
    an all-in-one team communication app
    Seed
  • Fig (acq. by AWS)
    a terminal for the 21st century
    Seed
  • StackShare (acq. by Fossa)
    a system of record for tech stacks
    Series A
  • Muse (acq. by bootstrapper)
    a tool for thought for deep work
    Seed
  • Abbot (sunset)
    a copilot for customer success in Slack
    Seed
  • Along (sunset)
    an online video platform focussed on creators
    Seed
  • Rome (sunset)
    a modern JavaScript toolchain
    Seed