Investing
After investing in 40+ startups and scouting for Blackbird Ventures, TEN13, and Alumni Ventures, I founded Harry’s Syndicate.
This allows me to amplify the impact of my investing, back world-class founders and channel further capital into transformative companies.
We look for the outliers that can completely change or create an entire industry.
Deals must have the potential to return our investors 50x, 100x, or even 1000x of their capital. This means we actively avoid deals that have a high likelihood of generating ~10x.
We’ve invested alongside world-class VCs such as Blackbird, AirTree, Square Peg, Day One Ventures, and Susa Ventures.
In order to make an investment, we need to answer a hard YES to each of the following 3 questions:
If everything goes right, is the opportunity big enough to create a $10B+ company?
Is the founding team exceptional and uniquely positioned to solve this problem?
Would I join these founders as an early employee?
We believe these three factors are critical.
If the company operates in a vast space, with a team that has an unfair advantage in winning, and the founders have the ability to attract more exceptional people as they grow, then they possess the key ingredients to succeed.
Below is a list of portfolio highlights
Shop Circle (Pre-Seed): Thrasio for Shopify; raised $65M+ Series B led by NFX
SuperPower (Seed): the first super health app; raised $30M Series A
Treinta (Pre-Seed, Seed): digital bookkeeping in LatAm; invested before YC; raised $40m Series A
Algorand (Seed): world’s first permissionless, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol
OpenEnvoy (Seed): eliminating accounts payable fraud; raised $15M Series A
VendEase (Pre-Seed): serving Africa's food businesses; invested before YC; raised $30M Series A
[Acquired] Poised (Pre-Seed): Grammarly for speech; subsequent investors include Eric Yuam, Jeff Weiner
Wahed (Series A): halal investment platform; raised $50M Series B
[Acquired] Onramp Invest (Seed): connecting global wealth managers to digital assets
Newie (Pre-Seed): the easiest way to buy or sell any service
VXT (Seed): integrated VoIP phone system for professionals; since raised Pre-Series A
Carted (Pre-Seed): building the future of online commerce; first money in, Blackbird led $13M Seed