Paul De Sadeleer was the first early-stage investor hired at A* Capital, where he helped build the firm's seed investing approach from the ground up before becoming a partner at TCP. His background combines Goldman Sachs investment banking and Summit Partners growth equity experience with early-stage pattern recognition, earning him Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition in 2024 for leading investments in technically complex startups like CivilGrid and Obviant.
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A* Capital is co-founded by three operators with complementary track records: Eventbrite founder Kevin Hartz (who took the company public), former Uber finance head Gautam Gupta, and ex-Coatue partner Bennett Siegel who backed companies like Peloton and DoorDash—an unusually operator-heavy founding team for an early-stage VC fund. The firm leads at seed stage then doubles down at Series A while also incubating companies from scratch, and deliberately raised Fund II exclusively from institutional LPs after launching Fund I with backing from iconic founders like Max Levchin and Peter Thiel.
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