Danielle Strachman, founding director of the Thiel Fellowship who discovered teens Vitalik Buterin and Dylan Field, applies pattern recognition to teens and runs 1517 Medici Project offering $1,000 no‑strings grants.

Chris Howard built his founder network via a three‑year Seattle–SF commute—sleeping on a friend's couch—became a Midas Seed honoree for bets like Figma and Flexport, and co‑created ReFUEL wellness retreats.

Julian combines deeptech seed investing with VP-level growth experience as Demand Curve founder to help founders scale customers, hiring and investor access via Deep Checks, the world's largest deeptech network.

Ilya Fushman leverages Dropbox product and growth leadership, including building Dropbox Business, to closely partner with select companies on go-to-market, packaging/pricing and product strategy for collaboration, infrastructure and developer tools.

Former engineer Mamoon Hamid uses a process-driven, Series A–focused approach—firm-wide OKRs and weekly reviews of missed deals—and makes early bets on workplace productivity platforms like Slack, Box, Figma and Rippling.

Brian Balfour, founder and CEO of Reforge and ex-VP of Growth at HubSpot, brings widely-cited product-led growth frameworks and centers investor conversations on extending shared mental models.

Christoph Janz, a former two-time founder, narrowly focuses on SaaS and marketplaces and is known for deep pattern recognition and an influential animal metaphor about ACV, segmentation and GTM trade-offs.

Roelof Botha combines a South African actuarial background and PayPal CFO experience, applies a probabilistic approach, takes contrarian bets like YouTube, Square and MongoDB, and partners closely on product strategy.