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  • "READ MY"
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  • "KARTHIK SURESH"
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I'm currently living in San Francisco New York Los Angeles Austin Portland Honolulu Troy and working on something new ;).

I was previously at Pave, an HR software company helping companies make compensation more transparent. Before Pave, I spent time improving the mortgage experience at Blend, investing at Contrary Capital, learning from extremely smart individuals at 8VC, working on education access at Coursera, and refining glucose monitors at Biomedtrics.

When I'm not working, you can find me signing up for new product waitlists, running, playing poker, skiing (in the winter), and surfing (in the summer).

I am occasionally lucky to be invited to join a founder on their journey. I generally invest in early stage companies focused on fintech, education, biotech, and enterprise software. I'm a small part of the cap table and any success is squarely due to the work and tenacity of the founders. Note: these are a mix of personal investments, investments via SPVs, and investments led/made while working at a fund.

Company Sector Stage
Naborly (Acq by Singlekey) B2C Fintech Seed
Wise Leap EdTech Seed
Runway B2B Fintech Series A
PayHippo B2B Fintech Seed
Modern Intelligence Defense Seed
Stytch B2B SaaS Series B
Aether BioTech Seed
Stealth Defense Seed
Stealth B2B Fintech Seed
Stealth B2B SaaS Seed

I love to write about topics that interest me such as startups, software, investing, ethics, heuristics, and history. I'm also interested in the intersection of software, startups, and investing and how this intersection can transform antiquated industries such as finance and education.

Title Type Date
Unpacking the $5.3B acquisition of Plaid Article Jan 21, 2020
Framework for evaluating Seed-Stage startups Article July 28, 2018
From what I've read this week... #21 Newsletter Feb 10, 2019
From what I've read this week... #20 Newsletter Feb 3, 2019
From what I've read this week... #16 Newsletter Aug 14, 2018
From what I've read this week... #15 Newsletter Aug 5, 2018
From what I've read this week... #14 Newsletter July 29, 2018
From what I've read this week... #13 Newsletter July 24, 2018
From what I've read this week... #12 Newsletter July 16, 2018
From what I've read this week... #11 Newsletter July 2, 2018
From what I've read this week... #10 Newsletter June 25, 2018
From what I've read this week... #9 Newsletter June 18, 2018
From what I've read this week... #8 Newsletter June 10, 2018
From what I've read this week... #7 Newsletter June 4, 2018
From what I've read this week... #6 Newsletter May 28, 2018
From what I've read this week... #5 Newsletter May 14, 2018
From what I've read this week... #4 Newsletter May 9, 2018
From what I've read this week... #3 Newsletter April 29, 2018
From what I've read this week... #2 Newsletter April 22, 2018
From what I've read this week... #1 Newsletter April 8, 2018

make people think.

  • "The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem." - George Polya, How to Solve it
  • "To the extent that you enjoy working hard, do. Subject to that constraint, it's not clear that the returns to effort ever diminish substantially. If you're lucky enough to enjoy it a lot, be grateful and take full advantage!" - Patrick Collison, patrickcollison.com/advice
  • "Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough." - Richard Feynman
  • "The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is." - Paul Graham
  • "Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself" - Harvey Specter, Suits