I am a venture capitalist and philanthropist with a tech background, who is strongly interested in open source software. Now I mostly spend my time on:
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Investing at Runa Capital (General Partner), an early-stage VC firm funding enterprise software and deep tech startups, where I focus on open source, developer-focused, and infrastructure software.
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Building the Open Source Endowment (Chairman & Co-Founder), the world’s first endowment fund exclusively dedicated to sustaining free open source software.
My passion is experimenting with new cool tech things before they become mainstream. For instance: programming (since 2005), tech startups (2009), AI and machine learning (2011), and Bitcoin (2013).
I live in London and frequently visit the San Francisco Bay Area.
Selected writings & projects
Open Source Startups
- Investment in open source CRM Twenty
- Investment in open source AIOps Keep
- ROSS Index: top-20 fastest-growing OSS startups, published every quarter
- GitHub repo with OSS startup alternatives to SaaS: 18K+ stars, 100+ contributors
Open Source Endowment
- What Open Source can learn from universities to fix its funding
- How I algorithmically donated $5000+ to OSS via GitHub Sponsors and PyPI data
Data-driven VC