Founder, Value Add Holdings LLC · 3x Founder · 65+ Investments
Operator, investor, and builder. I've built three companies (BrandYourself, Launch.it, SPOT), written 65+ checks at pre-seed and seed, and spent the last decade developing the pattern recognition that separates real signal from startup noise.
Currently Founder, Value Add Holdings LLC — the parent company that operates Value Add VC as a real media company: a free intelligence platform pulling 7M+ search impressions a quarter, Value Add Pulse for real-time deal coverage, and Value Add Advisory, where I take on select consulting, SEO/GEO/AEO strategy, speaking, and expert-network work. If the site is any indication, I'm not just writing about how this stuff works — I'm demonstrably doing it.
10+ years as an operator and investor — on both sides of the cap table.
Six Point Ventures
American Express
New York Venture Partners (NYVP)
Value Add VC
BrandYourself · Launch.it · SPOT
The intersection of operating, investing, and building that few people have done all three of.
Three companies from 0→1. Understands product, hiring, fundraising, and the messy middle that happens between them.
65+ investments across AI, SaaS, fintech, consumer, and deep tech. Strong pre-seed and seed conviction, hands-on portfolio support.
Running a micro-fund end-to-end — LP relationships, sourcing, diligence, portfolio management, and fund accounting.
Built 80+ live dashboards tracking VC fund performance, AI valuations, IPOs, unicorns, layoffs, and SaaS multiples.
Daily analysis on venture capital, startup markets, and AI. Thousands of readers across Twitter and the Value Add VC blog.
Deep connections across the NY tech ecosystem — founders, GPs, LPs, angels, and operators across every major sector.
Grew Value Add VC to 7M+ quarterly search impressions and content that surfaces in AI answer engines — not theory, a live, working example.
Operator experience, investment judgment, and a network built over a decade — I bring all three to a handful of engagements at a time, through Value Add Advisory.
Daily analysis on venture capital, startup markets, and AI — written for people who want real data and real opinions, not press releases.
Free VC intelligence platform
I built Value Add VC to make institutional-quality venture intelligence accessible to anyone. 80+ interactive dashboards covering VC fund performance, AI valuations, unicorn tracking, IPO markets, SaaS multiples, tech layoffs, and more. Free, forever. Used by GPs, LPs, founders, and operators at firms you'd recognize.
Whether you're building something that needs a sharp investor perspective, want to bring Value Add Advisory in on SEO/GEO/AEO or content strategy, are looking for a speaker who's actually done the thing, or just want to swap notes on the market — my inbox is open.